tconley79 Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Hi, I'm starting a project that involves modeling and animating stuffed animal-type objects. I soon came to the realization that creating a realistic felt fabric material could be a bit complicated (there's a lot of depth to simulate.) Anyone have any experience with felt texturing? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_wrangler Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Hi, I'm starting a project that involves modeling and animating stuffed animal-type objects. I soon came to the realization that creating a realistic felt fabric material could be a bit complicated (there's a lot of depth to simulate.) Anyone have any experience with felt texturing? Thanks Felt? as in velvet? You can simulate that using a Falloff map in the diffuse map slot. The base color in the front slot and a lighter tint of that base color in the Sides slot. vertex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tconley79 Posted December 26, 2004 Author Share Posted December 26, 2004 Felt? as in velvet? Well not quite... Felt is a processed form of wool. It's a very densely packed material with many layers of interwoven strands of wool. It's bit fuzzy, as well. But thanks for the velvet tip, though. I'll probably need that soon, too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_wrangler Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Well not quite... Felt is a processed form of wool. It's a very densely packed material with many layers of interwoven strands of wool. It's bit fuzzy, as well. But thanks for the velvet tip, though. I'll probably need that soon, too I'm sorry, I dind't understand quite well. If you have a picture to describe the kind of material - I might be able to help. Anyways, for fuzzy looks, you can still use the the falloff map - but this time, put it into the opacity slot - where its black on the sides and white in front. So you have slight transparencies in the silhouttes. Then nest some sort of a noise in the side slot to break the rather bland transparencies. Good for cotton and soft cloth too. Also, check simbiont max (darksim.com). If I remember correctly, it comes with a cotton/plush material you can probably tweak... regards, vertex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tconley79 Posted December 27, 2004 Author Share Posted December 27, 2004 Wow thanks for the help, vertex. I'll definitely check that site out! Oh, and here is some more info on felt.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tconley79 Posted December 31, 2004 Author Share Posted December 31, 2004 My felt progress so far.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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