Plastic Stippling Effect on Weapons

mrgesy

Is it possible to make this sort of pattern and deform it with a "flow map" in Substance? For e.g use a user-painted mask to drive the form of the individual leafs. How would one go about making them swirl like this without massive general distortion? I tried using a directional blur but that doesnt work.

The effect is sort of like fur but instead of hair strands, we have these leaf shapes. 

gnoop

i think Shape splatter wiith vector map multiplier for  rotation.   You need a special normal map as a vector input where the slope  is following  the direction you need

poopipe

That's probably the best option. 

If you want to control it by painting,there is a flow map tutorial for painter on the allegorithmic site

mrgesy

gnoop said:

i think Shape splatter wiith vector map multiplier for  rotation.   You need a special normal map as a vector input where the slope  is following  the direction you need

That's a good one! Thanks for the help!

poopipe  Will look into the tutorial. Thanks!