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1. Leather Spec Maps

   

   Topic by LRoy · Apr 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   I've been having trouble creating a soft leather material. I've been able to find a lot of info on how to make spec maps for hardsurface stuff but not too much on this material. From what I understand it would be a dark, mostly plain diffuse and all the work would fall on the spec map. Does anyone have any tips on how to…

2. Re: Leather Spec Maps

   

   Reply by Will Faucher · Apr 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   Experiment. Think about it logically. The spec map on that example is very noisy. Use a noisy photo overlay and give it a shot. Add color to your spec map to add variety. Try things out! :) You could use the leather diffuse as a base for your spec map, then modify/adjust it to get the result you want.

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   Reply by ralusek · Apr 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   ^what i was thinking. i'll also check if i have a good spec for you

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   Reply by Will Faucher · Apr 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   I'm pretty sure that there isn't any special shader work going on here. There just seems to be 2 colored lights. One white/blue, the other a more reddish color. As for texture sheets, let me see if I have one lying around, if not, just experiment and see what works out best. :)

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   Reply by LRoy · Apr 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks for the info guys. I'll get to tinkering. Does anyone have any example texture sheets I could kind of compare to?

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   Reply by sprunghunt · Apr 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   you could also try using a very blurry reflection map.