Texture Help - Creating Worn leather

ichidan

Hey guys,

I was wondering if you could offer me some help,
Im trying to create a worn leather effect with this bag



Making it something similar to these pictures...



Im fine with spec and gloss etc, its just making a solid diffuse
Thanks for any help at all guys

fearian

http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn/materials

This tutorial should explain how to block in colour values in dif spec and gloss to get a base material definition! It even features leather and should work in Xoliul and many other shaders.

ichidan

Thanks for the reply See ive seen this and i understand creating a material that will look like leather, i was kind of looking for techniques as to get the worn effect of the leather into the diffuse, thats what im struggling with. Just wondering if anyone had any good techniques

Ruz

find a good leather texture with google ?

ichidan

Thanks for the reply
Ive tried overlaying photo textures but they don't really seem to be giving the desired effect . Im trying to add wear to edges and also where things would brush against it mst. maybe ill just have to keep at it trying different things

Eric Chadwick

Try making custom brushes in Photoshop, and using the brush settings to scatter/rotate the strokes. For example http://www.idigitalemotion.com/tutorials/guest/custombrush/custombrush.html

ichidan

Thanks for the reply Eric ^_^

I didnt think of making a custom brush, thats a good shout, ill give it a go now thanks!

passerby

i would use a photoref of some leather in decent condition, than take some other photorefs of damage and make them black and white mask from them for a new layer.

than fill that new layer with black, set it to screen or lighten and start painting in white on it where you want the worn leather.

that way as you paint to lighter areas it has the texture of the mask applied to it.

ichidan

Thanks for the reply Passerby ^_^

Really hand info you have given there, definitely gunna give this a go, thank you much appreciated