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MSFS20 Realistic Carpet?

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A mini quest... I wonder what Realistic Carpet would need in PBR settings. Its a difficult call. Bump mapping for the tufts, zero reflection, zero metal? zero this and that, tons of NORMAL bumping... But its just not enough....



Bill... of the quite strange, massively huge eyebrow people...
 
Although I make all my textures from my photos, with PBR added via Materializer/hand edits, it helps with some materials to see how others do it on a texture site like textures.com. You don't need to download the textures as all maps are displayed on the site. Ok, they all use a Height map, which doesn't help us, but this does give me a starting point.
 
toprob said:
Although I make all my textures from my photos, with PBR added via Materializer/hand edits, it helps with some materials to see how others do it on a texture site like textures.com. You don't need to download the textures as all maps are displayed on the site. Ok, they all use a Height map, which doesn't help us, but this does give me a starting point.
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Good idea!


Pyscen said:
What type of carpet? Shag? Lol!
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My original paint scheme Learjet LJ24b had orange shag carpet, lolol... Those were the days. You bought plastic carpet rakes for it to fluff it because it tended to mash down like grass...
 
lionheart said:
A mini quest... I wonder what Realistic Carpet would need in PBR settings. Its a difficult call. Bump mapping for the tufts, zero reflection, zero metal? zero this and that, tons of NORMAL bumping... But its just not enough....



Bill... of the quite strange, massively huge eyebrow people...
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Definitely Zero (pure black) for metalness (Blue channel of the metal texture) and very high values for roughness, almost white (meaning very little reflection, Green channel of the metal texture), use an ambient occlusion texture to add some fine detail. I suggest finding a top down view photo of a carpet that resembles yours and use Materialize to play around with the settings until you find something that suits your needs
 
A 3 minute attempt for a shag carpet material - something like this?
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Very nice, Fabs!

I experimented with this last year and found that without specular, you have nearly no way to see the 3-dimensionality of the surface. You need a bit of light, but the specular seemed to make it look like plastic.
 
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