getting cloth effect

[EricChadwick]

Cloth generally has a low specular value. Plastic is generally high.

Cloth needs a fine bump map. Plastic usually has a very different kind of bump.

Sometimes it helps just to copy the cloth color map into the Bump channel, and use a small bump %.

[EricChadwick]

Here are some tutorials about painting cloth. This is geared towards pre-lit textures, but some of it applies to cloth without the lighting painted in.

http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/cottages/qbranch/tutorials.shtml

[tyio]

thanks but do you know the shader to use ??

[EricChadwick]

That totally depends on your 3d app.

[$edick]

Hi i'm Sedick and i'm currently having the same problem you've had with cloth.I even have to make the cloth look as if it's melting.If you found a shader or tutorial could you please tel me were i could find it.

[leigh]

Don't use specularity on cloth at all. Specularity is generally evil and should be avoided at all costs unless you need to make a plastic shader.

Common tricks with cloth is to use ramp shaders to give it a velvety look (or an actual velvet shader to create that "micro bump" that velvet has which disperses light on the surface in a very soft way).

[ostov]

You should use the falloff material. I dont remeber the settings right now since I switched to xsi. But anyway, just try to add the falloff material to the diffusion color/material.
Sorry for my bad english..

[tyio]

hi :)


you can use a raytrace material and a falloff in autoillumination, translucidity and fluorescence, make a SSS with good control...

or use a Brazil material if you use this renderer engine :)

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