velvet cloth material

[dheersreedh]

Any sug'g'essions for g'ood vray velvet material?

[Zdravko Barisic]

vray-materials.de

[CliveG]

Any sug'g'essions for g'ood vray velvet material?

 

Have a good look at some reference photos, when I do I see that the diffuse colour is darkest facing the viewer and lightens towards glancing angles (you may see something else of course). Also obviously due to the surface it is significantly darker away from light source than facing light source. So that suggests to me a diffuse slot with a mix of a couple of falloff maps with light and dark versions of the colour velvet you're hoping to achieve. Fiddle with your mix curve (especially on the on the perpendicular / parallel falloff).

 

A strong towelling like bump and you could have a good enough velvet for some quite close shots that still renders really efficiently.

 

Or you could not bother and just go to vray-materials.de, but I think velvet is a great material to hone some skills on.

[Corey Beaulieu]

I think that the Autodesk Materials work, but why bother? They are all low res and not very seamless.

 

Your best bet is a Vray Blend Material. You can use a FallOff map to controll the light dark areas and create a very complex material that appears quite naturally as velvet.

[Chris MacDonald]

Agreed with Corey. The Autodesk materials are terrible, and the only reason VRay doesn't support them is because of Autodesk not releasing info on how they work, not chaos groups fault.

 

For fabrics (especially velvet) I use a falloff map in the diffuse, with the main colour of the fabric being perpendicular to the view, and almost white at 90 degrees.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=vray+velvet&safe=off&espv=2&biw=1600&bih=839&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=eNuCVKfjCuLT7Qaz3YHAAQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ