Carpet and fabrics!

[benn]

Can we have a cream coloured carpet and a nice fabric covering for sketchup furnitures?

[Camox]

Hi Ben, if you like the materials I'll upload them.

best regards

[Doug Armand]

Hi Ben, if you like the materials I'll upload them.

best regards

Well for me they are just too perfect.

I mean who will believe we've rendered an image if we use materials as good as this?
How do we convince the client to pay then? they'll just say we used a camera for goodness sake!

But seriously - that is a very, very good material. I can't see the seams. Would be nice to a hi-res render

Great work

[Camox]

Thank you very much Doug !

If I have a little more time, then I will render an image in hi-res. This comes in the next few days.

greetz

[benn]

Those materials are awesome. Please do upload.

[Camox]

Thanks

I've uploaded the materials.

[Godzilla]

Thanks

I've uploaded the materials.

Woah woah woah, you gotta do a material preview, friend.

[Camox]

Yes my friend, i think i have too many time.

[Jambert]

thanks fot upload

[ozzie]

And how can I make carpet like that:

I know I can use displacement texture but every time I'm trying it's not what it should be! Any ideas?

Some examples of what I've got on my mind:
http://www.vray-materials.de/all_materials.php?mat=1409

http://www.vray-materials.de/all_materials.php?mat=1628

http://www.vray-materials.de/all_materials.php?mat=1482

[lycium]

a (somewhat slow) way: you could use several layers of textures, blending between diffuse and null material. memory usage will be a lot lower than displacement.

actually, if you do this, i would be interested to see 64bit vs 32bit benchmarks, since the 64bit version (on windows) doesn't actually do shader compiling as far as i know.

[CTZn]

Ozzie, you could also use the same technique than for grass, by instancing billboards such as this one (with seamless sides):

albedo

bump


blend

[ozzie]

lyc - I think it will give the best reuslts, but for now I don't have any ideas how to do it :/.

CTZn - it's bad idea because I don't know the what perspective will be - but it will be much faster to do than what lyc sad

Thanks

[Zom-B]

I just tried the Billboard version here.10000 copies, zoomed in to fit in the screen, HDR light.

The billboards are randomly rotated and have a random angle of 25°.
I needed to convert Bump + blend to RGB and flip BW for the Blend.

550 SPP, smooth blend & Bump Map

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Render times are very high since the multiple transparency and the small size are quite a issue. A carper looks by default Noisy at some point.

I'll give it a trest with Step blend and no bump... this should speed up everything

[CTZn]

Thanks for testing ZomB, I'm finding the result not so bad after all. I think it should be decent in a real situation, hiding objects partially.

Now I see the limit of standing blades, but I can make a variety of these billboards in no time, along with a related tileable texture for the carpet surface.

The bump map is an extra... Step blend should definitly boost the process !