Anyone got any good techniques for creating a nice, fluffy towel? I can just about model a towel, but never been happy with my rendered results. Forever being asked to add ‘fluffy’ towels. Noise as a displacement? Vray fur? Max Hair/Fur? Any tips you’d like to share with the forum?

yeah, very pixelly noise as a displace -even a filter > Noise > monochromatic in photoshop. It’s all about breaking the silhouette of the shading and adding in all of the small up and down bits. It’s like a rough object, just at a scale of roughness where the details (bumps / threads) are visible so…

Falloff is a good idea. I’m trying with this texture I’ve just created (this is just a 1200px version of the 3k pixel I am using). You reckon this is a good starting point? [towel noise.jpg]

Yep! It’ll appear as small random dimples, should be totally fine.

Some ideas here may be of help: http://www.neilblevins.com/cg\_education/towels\_carpet\_grass/towels\_carpet\_grass.htm - Neil

Yeah - my skill is mainly with architectural (i.e. ‘square’!) modelling. Anything organic and my mind gets confused! So far, for a towel, I have simply drawn a 3-vertex spline and then extruded it with 40 or 50 segments in the extrusion. Then I have used a cloth modifier to ‘drape’ it over a bath. …

I just recently did a visual for the new bullet train in Japan - an interior showing the seating of the cars. It is not a towel but it had to look soft and cozy (like the original seating) and I used Vray Fur for this. Maybe the technique is some help for you. So the seat was of course modeled, the…

Looks cool, would be interested in some more info on this

I am kind of in a hurry, so just quickly a screenshot of the fur setup. I am attaching the materials I used. The only map I used is the one I posted, I think. That is also linked with the fur. What is of course important is a nice velvet look and for that you will need a nice falloff map alongside…

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having a good base model is very important - you cant displace the thickness. if it doesn’t look close with no displacement it probably wont look right with it either.

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