Sandpaper Material?

[k-arts]

Has anyone ever tried to create a rough sandpaper material. So a really coarse one with nice reflection highlights. Somehow my material isn't giving me the poper results?? Any tip or hint?

Cheers



Ralf

[ben_hamburg]

Hard to tell from that image (without any environment to provide some context), but it doesn´t per se look "wrong" in my eyes. I would try to use it on a different object maybe something that resembles an actual folded sandpaper) and with variable light setup to properly test it.

[Macker]

Have you considered scattering geometry (grains of sand) instead of displacement? PFlow, forest pro, multiscatter could all do it.

[k-arts]

Thx for your answers, the idea of using geometry souds interesting Ill give it a try, cheers

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

You can scater it, then bake to displacement, then have a texture for it. You can even bake diffuse/reflection/etc/etc values as well to produce more different maps.

[Deflaminis]

Use an hdri and light with that, I think you may find it's fine.

[Vizioen]

You can scater it, then bake to displacement, then have a texture for it. You can even bake diffuse/reflection/etc/etc values as well to produce more different maps.

How would you bake a scatter to displacement?

[Jason Stewart]

Quickest way with a flat object is to use a orthogonal camera facing straight at it and render a z depth pass. The other way is to use a projection modifier on a second object (in this case a plane) to bake from, this is mostly used to bake high poly meshes down to low poly objects for games and stuff like that.

[crazy homeless guy]

You should post an image of the type of sandpaper you are trying to create. What is the grit?

[Vizioen]

Quickest way with a flat object is to use a orthogonal camera facing straight at it and render a z depth pass. The other way is to use a projection modifier on a second object (in this case a plane) to bake from, this is mostly used to bake high poly meshes down to low poly objects for games and stuff like that.

Aah thank you I'm familiar with this method I just thought there was like a button I didn't know about