How to texture this hat realistically?

NAIMA

Hello , in another thread I worked on making a mesh model of a straw hat , now I did this because I wanted a detailed bake of normal maps , but I have no idea how I could texture this to allow that alternate straw colors of different straws etc ...

Is there any approach you could sugest me ? apart PS I have Substance painter and designer but I am very new tothose softwares.

What approach you do sugest ?  OR did I approach the problem the wrong way and I wasted time?

Here is the model I did ...

The pattern I followed

This is the kind of hat I am interested in making ...

The idea was to make it detailed in max to create the pattern , bake , texture etc and only at the end bend it , or instead bring to Zbrush bend it and then bake it , whatever it is my problem now is how to make the color map so to have that alternate nice straw color ?

poopipe

Color the straws in and bake that too

Neox

or have all the straws as individual objects and bake an object ID mask

NAIMA

sorry what do you mean  ? I should manually select each straw and recolorize? they are by the thousands !

NAIMA

alsohow can I give that straw texture on each of them ? I should redo the whole object from scratch to do that?

Neox

NAIMA said:

sorry what do you mean  ? I should manually select each straw and recolorize? they are by the thousands !

there are random color scripts, random material scripts, random anything scripts.

NAIMA

Neox said:

NAIMA said:

sorry what do you mean  ? I should manually select each straw and recolorize? they are by the thousands !

there are random color scripts, random material scripts, random anything scripts.

oh , don't know any of those, can you sugest me one? Also the mesh item that I clone around are merged together , I shoudl detach all stripes?

Neox

oh boyyy.... can you be any more dependent on others? fells like what you type in as threads here would be perfectly usable as google search terms.

the time it took you to ask here and wait for someone to answer could have been used already

scriptspot.com whenever you feel like something is too tedious, go there, search for stuff.

NAIMA

Thankyou.

gnoop

All it needs is just some random color variation like in your last photo.   3d max should has Selection> random  somewhere in top tabs  if I remember correctly  working in sub-object.     Then just give it 2-3 mat ids