I found this awesome worn metal tutorial where the artist briefly touched on making the wood look worn; it taught me quite a bit but I'm hoping there are more tutorials to supplement his. I'm working on a project that has a tremendous amount of wood assets.
Tutorials for texturing kind of teach you backwards. Trying to learn X material should be setup up in so and so fashion. You end up with only the how and not the why, which is far more important. If you have to ask your self 'how how do I get my material to look like X', then you probably don't really understand what…
I always feel a little bad when people reference that tutorial, I don't think I was a very good texture artist at the time I did it, but I'm glad it was helpful in some way :\ to figure out how to go about texturing old wood (or any other material you do) you should probably start by figuring out roughly what type of wood…