Does anyone have a carbon weave shader they wish to share?

michael-kristensen_e59faa8f72

Hi there

Does anyone have a carbon weave shader they wish to share?

Thanks
Michael

wavyeye

You should be able to build one using the excellent Veloute plugin from Inagoni.

michael-kristensen_e59faa8f72

Thanks for the answer Woodscreation

I had hoped for a free one....

Mic

wetcircuit

I looked it up online. I think you can get it with a Check shader or a Brick shader.... maybe set to Anisotropic...

I'm not exactly sure how it looks in real life.... or what level of detail you need.

Design Acrobat

Here's a home made irregular pattern, not seamless - but you can use it freely.

michael-kristensen_e59faa8f72

Thanks for the effort DA

Its going to be a 120 cm picture of a kayak-paddle so it has to be pretty lifelike.

Mic

Varsel

Here's one I made in Genetica.
use it as a mixer in the Colour Channel
use it in the Highlight Channel
and use it in the Bump Channel.

Depending on the size of the object and UV-map layout, you might want to Tile it.
(It is seamless)

michael-kristensen_e59faa8f72

Varsel, would it be possible to share the shader itself?

...as I would not know what to do with what you have shared.

I cant see any weave in the bottom picture.

Mic

3DAGE

Hi Mac Mic :)

You should be able to create a basic carbon weave,, or fabric,.. by using the Check pattern as Holy mentioned above.
you can also use the transform options in procedural functions like Fractal noise, to create a directional grain,.
it's a bit like a pencil cross-hatch shader,,

Here;s a quick example Procedural Shader,. so you can either adjust the parameters to suit the scale of your model,.
or apply it to a plane and export that out as an OBJ, to use Carrara to convert the Procedural shader, to a Texture map,.
then you can edit that texture map. etc.

Shader link

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7907045/carbon_chek.cbr

pic

michael-kristensen_e59faa8f72

Thanks 3DAGE

I will try this out

It might take some time, as I am not used to shaders.

Mic

EDIT Can I not use the shader directly on the paddle?

Design Acrobat

MacMic said:

Thanks for the effort DA

Its going to be a 120 cm picture of a kayak-paddle so it has to be pretty lifelike.

Mic

Ah!

You need some rather large fixings then. 3.5 feet size posters is something outside of my achievements.

michael-kristensen_e59faa8f72

Heres what I get

Varsel

The first one wasn't weave, but my interpretation of what google showed me it looked like.
This one is a weave.

And this is how I did build up the shader.

In the color Channel I chose a mixer. One colour as dark grey and the other as black.
This is just to fake the apperance. (as far as I know Carbon fiber are black).
In the Highligt channel I used the same map.
The Shininess is set to 20 %
And in the Bump Channel I also used the same map.
The bump value I set to 5 % (this value is set in the top shader)

The maps are tiled. The Horizontal and Vertical Tile values will depend on the scale of the object and UV-map. Might be a trial and error exercise to get it right.

michael-kristensen_e59faa8f72

Thanks Varsel

What do you do with the blender of the two colors

As you can see I only get the weave at the hilite at the tip of the paddle

What can I do about that?

Mic

michael-kristensen_e59faa8f72

OK

I rotated the light and placed one in the other end

Varsel

Ah yes. It's all about lights and mirrors.... magical.

Lights : The Holy Grail of 3D.
Cripeman has some tutorials about this. Check the Carrara 8 information at the stickies on top in this forum.

What you see is the shininess.
What you can also do is to chose a mixer in the Highlight channel. Use different values in the Source channels and use the texture map as a blender.

Some adjustments with the bump value might also help.

Design Acrobat

Just wanted to thank Holly about the heads up on the Veloute Shader. (made by Julien-inagoni). For less than $35.00, what a bargain! :)

I have a new toy to play with. This is a basic basket weave I created with the Veloute plug-in.

Sorry, hope I didn't derail the thread - just wanted to thank Holly for her Carrara insight and wisdom. :)

michael-kristensen_e59faa8f72

It is not 100% realistic, but for now I thanks all for their support.

Thank you all for your quick responces

Special thanks to Varsel

Mic

michael-kristensen_e59faa8f72

Design Acrobat, how did you get the object so evenly lit?

Mic

Design Acrobat

MacMic said:

Design Acrobat, how did you get the object so evenly lit?

Mic

Three point lighting all with an HDRI.

Dartanbeck

Design Acrobat said:

Just wanted to thank Holly about the heads up on the Veloute Shader. (made by Julien-inagoni). For less than $35.00, what a bargain! :)

I have a new toy to play with. This is a basic basket weave I created with the Veloute plug-in.

Sorry, hope I didn't derail the thread - just wanted to thank Holly for her Carrara insight and wisdom. :)

Her web space is a good page to have constant access to, as she has an excellent list of links to Carrara plugins - and useful articles, too. I often re-read her article about plugins for a better description of what they do. The rest of them are good, too. For a great lighting tip, check out her tutorial for IBL (Image Based Lighting).
While you're at it, have a nice shopping spree amongst her freebies! ;)

Edit:
I actually have her page as a separate Homepage tab so it's always available with a single mouse-click!

Design Acrobat

Dartanbeck said:

Design Acrobat said:

Just wanted to thank Holly about the heads up on the Veloute Shader. (made by Julien-inagoni). For less than $35.00, what a bargain! :)

I have a new toy to play with. This is a basic basket weave I created with the Veloute plug-in.

Sorry, hope I didn't derail the thread - just wanted to thank Holly for her Carrara insight and wisdom. :)

Her web space is a good page to have constant access to, as she has an excellent list of links to Carrara plugins - and useful articles, too. I often re-read her article about plugins for a better description of what they do. The rest of them are good, too. For a great lighting tip, check out her tutorial for IBL (Image Based Lighting).
While you're at it, have a nice shopping spree amongst her freebies! ;)

Edit:
I actually have her page as a separate Homepage tab so it's always available with a single mouse-click!

Thanks for the link! Still having fun with Veloute though. Will check out the plug-ins later.

Here's a Komodo dragon I modeled and put a one layer Veloute on it to simule the rows of scales it has. Kind of like the blue I initially added. heh Probably needs to be mixed with the original texture and light map to get the more realistic view.