leather 70s chair

[tom182]

Best leather I've seen

great work

Tom

[SonOfNimrod]

...that's gorgeous.....well done!...

[dellis]

Awesome!

[priad]

great lighting / modeling / rendering!

[stevesideas]

Fantastic rendering. Can you give me any clues to how you got the leather material so good....Ive been trying to get my office chair leather material to look realistic, but the bump reflection never looks great.

[rivoli]

unfortunately I don't have the file at hand at the moment (it's on a backup drive which is out of our network), so I can't show you any screenshot of the mat.
off the top of my head I don't remember the exact settings, but I think it was a vray blend mat with very strong, rough fresnel reflections. I used a hand painted specular map in the falloff's "side" slot, and pretty much no bump at all.
the coat level was probably just a hint, it had the same spec map but it was a bit more glossy. I guess.

to me the key for these kind of shots it's you lock the camera first, and then you start tweaking your material's reflections and maps strength and whatnot after that. going from a camera position to another may need different tweaks, so I very seldom consider a material done just looking at it in the mat editor.
so I guess at the end of the day it really depends on your specific scenes and setups, but I'll definitely post some settings when I can open the file again

[jonnybefree]

and again: really exellent!!

[stevesideas]

unfortunately I don't have the file at hand at the moment (it's on a backup drive which is out of our network), so I can't show you any screenshot of the mat.
off the top of my head I don't remember the exact settings, but I think it was a vray blend mat with very strong, rough fresnel reflections. I used a hand painted specular map in the falloff's "side" slot, and pretty much no bump at all.
the coat level was probably just a hint, it had the same spec map but it was a bit more glossy. I guess.

to me the key for these kind of shots it's you lock the camera first, and then you start tweaking your material's reflections and maps strength and whatnot after that. going from a camera position to another may need different tweaks, so I very seldom consider a material done just looking at it in the mat editor.
so I guess at the end of the day it really depends on your specific scenes and setups, but I'll definitely post some settings when I can open the file again

Cool. Thats given me something to start from. Would be great to see some settings...really appreciate that

[GordonTarpley]

Wow

Beautiful!

[rivoli]

again, thanks for all your comments I didn't forget about the screenshots, guess I will get to it in the week end.

[rivoli]

well, it's been a while but eventually I got the file back. and it turned out the material it's much simpler than I remembered: no blend, no diffuse, no bump.. just a specular map and glossy reflections (0,72 in this case).

here's a screengrab:



and the map looks like this:



and you keep hearing people saying you have to fiddle with a bunch of sliders and buttons to get what you need out of vray

[stevesideas]

Cool. thanks for the info. I'll give that method a try on my chair

Thanks again