How would you approach recreating this material?

[gabrielzaga1]

Hi Folks,

 

This material has me scratching my head and I was hoping to get some of your thoughts purely for educational purposes.

 

See attached images of a sample of the material. (Sorry If these are rotated, I am not sure why, first post)

 

 

This is a stainless steel countertop material that has a very fine raised pattern, no more than 1mm wide.

 

I tried creating this material in a true-to-life way, with an accurately scaled bump map.

 

 

But my tests just come out like a gray material with a lot of noise. Obviously the scale of the details are just to fine for the pixels in my image to pick up.

 

 

I had to move on from this project, but I feel like this can be a learning opportunity to hear out how you guys would have tackled this material.

 

Thanks for reading and your thoughts are welcome!

[Chris MacDonald]

First you'll need to have a low enough noise threshold/high enough resolution to pick out details like that. Secondly try turning off bitmap filtering.

[gabrielzaga1]

Hi Chris,

 

Thanks for the reply and the suggestions.

 

I am already seeing better results in my tests.