Sbsar leather has a lot of depth - how do I reduce this?

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Hi All,

I’m having some issues (again) with leather materials.

I got some great advice from Kyle, to go down the sbsar route.

I downloaded and added a sbsar to the ring I’ve been designing:

DC Ring - Grey Leather Substance.3dm (837.3 KB)

However, the material doesn’t look like the image on the website:

Leather Screenshot
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I’ve played around with the filters/options but it just doesn’t look like the image on the website.

Could anyone help?

I find leather is the most difficult of all the materials to add to objects, is this how people usually feel?

I plan on using fabrics a lot, going forward - so it’s really important for me to get this looking right.

Any help would be massively appreciated,

Ashley

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you might want to Unwrap the inner ring, and uncheck the displacement in that texture (Height)

would this be something close to what you are after?:

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Hi Gijs - what does this mean? How would I do this?

Yes, what you’ve done here is much closer to the original image, and I thank you for that. But shouldn’t the substance materials be ‘good to go’ from the get go?

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what you see on the website, is a piece of cloth that has the correct texture mapping coordinates. The material, wether it is a substance material or not, needs mapping coordinates to apply the textures. In some case, you can get away with OCS/WCS mapping, but in this case it is better to unwrap.

There is an excellent video about Unwrapping textures here, made by @BrianJ :

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Gijs - thank you!

I’ll have a watch of it and unwrap.

I have to warn you though, I may have more questions…

Again, thank you.

Ashley

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Remember that in your case, leather will also look different. The scale-space of your scene is considerably smaller than a typical scene for leather (furniture, tables, automotive interior, clothing). In effect, depending upon what “real life” leather you chose, you may well end up with a slightly odd looking texture that is physically correct for the scale-space of the scene.

If you chose even softer leathers, you may find that your UV size will (or should) look large, because the ring is only of the order 2 cm in diameter.