Indigo Renderer Forum

hi everyone, I'm kinda new to indigo, and with the lack of experience I have. I've been messing around with existing materials to get this old french parquet I'm trying to achieve.
with not so much luck, I'm posting my result here to see if anyone have any tips or help on this subject.
I've tried two different materials: one is herringbone and the other is point de hongrie (don't know the English name for this kind)
thanks!

Good texture maps are important for good results, the one you are using are low res or not well defined...
Its like asking why your shabby car doesn't hit 220km on the open road.... well its not a well designed spots car!
Check out this free pack for a good start: http://www.viz-people.com/portfolio/fre ... -textures/

For such floors you'll need to map the fresnel scale too. By doing so you define the areas of the material that do reflect (white) and don't reflect (black). the grooves between the floor tiles should be black for example, scratches in the material darker too, since reflective surface is damaged here too! But beware to have a not to strong contrast in this map, since the result is quite sensitive

Your Bump values are way to strong! the B value is measured in meters, so a value of 0.001 is 1mm.
A bump of 0.002 should be strong enough!

To archive the look you aim for it maybe also needed to tweak the control maps (exponent, bump & fresnel) in Photoshop or Gimp, since the textures are maybe aiming to some other look that the artists who made them had in mind!

Keep up experimenting, since this is a important step if you are new to a renderer to get the feeling for (texture based) controls.
Post updates and feel free to ask for further advice once you stuck in progress

So you would put the specmap into both slots, fresnel scale and exponent? Or do you use different maps for these? I always ran with putting the specmap into the exponent slot...


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