Material texture question

[Streetwise]

Any ideas for how to go about making something that looks similar to what's in the groove? It's a piece of MDF that's been routed and what looks like painted.

[lukx]

displacement or itoo forrestpack.

[Vizioen]

Not sure but what would forest pack bring to the table? Just texture it I guess? I can't really see what's going on in the photo but looks like an easy job for some layered textures.

[Streetwise]

Here's a render of where I'm hoping to fix the groove to mimic the photo. I downloaded Forest Pack Lite, but I don't really know what I'm trying to do. I have a separate material created for the "groove", so perhaps a displacement is the way to go? Just don't know how to create randomness to it.

[Vizioen]

Here's a render of where I'm hoping to fix the groove to mimic the photo. I downloaded Forest Pack Lite, but I don't really know what I'm trying to do. I have a separate material created for the "groove", so perhaps a displacement is the way to go? Just don't know how to create randomness to it.

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Don't know how close you will render this but a scattering plugin won't be of any help to you here. I would suggest creating a multisub material, selecting the groove and putting that on a different material ID if you haven't already and create a different grungy material that is less desaturated maybe blended with the original a bit. http://www.textures.com/download/pla...nge&filter=all

[Streetwise]

Don't know how close you will render this but a scattering plugin won't be of any help to you here.

It won't be any closer than the test render that I did. I'll take a look at what you suggested. Thanks!

[mitviz]

It won't be any closer than the test render that I did. I'll take a look at what you suggested. Thanks!

i would simply in photoshop make a tiling texture of the image you first posted and map that into the groove and make a bump map or displacement map of it also, no one will be able to tell the difference, here is a fast one i tested which tiles horizontally
texture by shawn mitford, on Flickr
texture bump by shawn mitford, on Flickr

[Streetwise]

i would simply in photoshop make a tiling texture of the image you first posted

Well there you go! Nice. I'll try it out.

[AJ Jefferies]

Don't know how close you will render this but a scattering plugin won't be of any help to you here.

It depends how much detail you want to go into. The first thing I thought of when I saw the reference photo was "I'd scatter loads of little pieces of geometry across the surface"

[Streetwise]

It depends how much detail you want to go into.

Not much. In most cases, the furniture is far enough away the groove is really not all that distinguishable. It's just the few close-up detail renders where you see it. So I think Shawn's idea has the most merit, plus to keep render times down. Hopefully I'll get to try that out later today.

[Vizioen]

It depends how much detail you want to go into. The first thing I thought of when I saw the reference photo was "I'd scatter loads of little pieces of geometry across the surface"

Ha yeah ofcourse but in your case, some jellybean man would be walking around in that groove or something and there would be a big close up But besides that I don't see anything worth scattering. "Worst" case a little mudbox or Zbrush.

[Streetwise]

"Worst" case a little mudbox or Zbrush.

Yeah, I really need to get on board with Zbrush someday.

[Vizioen]

I found mudbox less of a big step if you're somewhat used to 3Ds max it's quite intuitive and for this more than sufficient. I'm not very familiar with Zbrush but as I see people gear more towards Zbrush I'd think it's a more capable tool all in all.

[Oleg_Budeanu]

Bercon procedural textures are your friend here. Google Mastering Vray course and you will see the magic you can do with those

[Vizioen]

Bercon procedural textures are your friend here. Google Mastering Vray course and you will see the magic you can do with those

Well, if you've seen the latest video of Grant, where he elaborates on the use of Vray 3.3, he states that he used procedural textures more because he didn't have to unwrap everything, but with VrayTriplanarTex he'll probably go back to using textures more. It's quite hard to get a desired pattern with procedurals too.