Damascened / Damascus / Pattern welded materials?

Valandar

I've hit a serious snag many times over the years - trying to replicate the look of damascened steel on any number of projects. I've tried photosourcing, hand painting, and any number of other tricks, but it never looks quite RIGHT. It often ends up making the item in question look like wood, for example.

Assuming a standard "Metallic / Roughness" setup, is there any advice or siggestions for making, say, a sword look like pattern welded or damascened steel?

cptSwing

Possibly a start? http://polycount.com/discussion/136974/pbr-damascus-steel

I seem to remember more in-depth conversations about damascus steel on the forums, but couldn't find them for now.

Valandar

Thank you! That thread should give me plenty of info

Steppenwolf

Would be pretty easy to achieve in Substance Designer with directional warps and vertex offsets.

Steppenwolf

Took me about 5 mins to figure this out in SD. It's pretty simple node setup. Using a custom vector offset node there but stock directional or vector warp nodes should work aswell. You can plugin whatever patterns and noises for different damascus effects.

Whalebones

@Steppenwolf Hey dude, been looking for a node just like that vector offset node you have there, any chance you could put that up on Substance Share? =D

Steppenwolf

 Hey Whalebones! I followed kenzorman's pixel processor tutorial to make my node:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SItBOrWIhNU

Valandar

Had to necropost... I have no clue what I'm doing in Substance Designer... how would I set that up so I can import it into Substance Painter as, say, a Smart Material?

ActionDawg

Valandar said:

Had to necropost... I have no clue what I'm doing in Substance Designer... how would I set that up so I can import it into Substance Painter as, say, a Smart Material?

It would be better to make a thread in the Allegorithmic section.

Anyways, Smart Materials are a different thing. Made in Painter for Painter. You want to publish sbsar files out from Designer and add them to the shelf in Painter. Allegorithmic have documentation and youtube tutorials showing how to do this.