Edge Wear

Support Materials and Textures
1

I feel as if I should be getting some edge wear here, and yet…

no_edge_wear_1
no_edge_wear_1930×523 183 KB

2

Pointiness only works in Cycles, I’m not sure which you’re using but that might be it

3

I made sure it was in Cycles, and tried some different geometries with weird results. Here’s the file if anyone wants to have a look:
no_edge_wear.blend (861.5 KB)

4

Try adding some bevel…

5

It changed from red to blue.

r2b
r2b451×511 163 KB

6

It works fine here

image
image3527×1560 500 KB

7

It just began working for me as well. I think the problem may have been that I was in material draw mode and it doesn’t seem to work other than to shift from one color to another in that mode.
Thanks for having a look.

8

I added some variation and it’s looking more believable.

ew
ew501×507 206 KB

edge_wear_2.blend (910.4 KB)

9

A different variation…
ew3
edge_wear_3.blend (3.4 MB)

10

Interesting !
I was just about to purchase this add-on before I came across your thread !

Thanks !

11

Yes, that seems pricey when it’s such a simple setup.

12

I appreciate your experiment.

13

I see a lot of addons on BlenderMarket that cleverly repackage existing functionality and charge a fortune for it, and someone they have hundreds of sales :thinking: sometimes I wish I was a professional scammer like them, I could make a killing putting basic operators in a side panel :wink:

14

I think the add-on creator for

make it into a single node and I do appreciate that but this thread does give me yet another option which I do appreciate.

15

I used this method https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIxq_QAO7Og
for this image

I provided a blend file there with examples.

16

@Modron You cube version (the first one) is TRULY awesome…
It’s Practical.
It’s Procedure.
It’s Useful !
Thank you @Modron.

17

Here’s the same effect using Fluent Materializer. It was about the same to set up, but it’s easier to control and the result looks pretty decent.
(edit) On the down side it can’t be exported as a procedural material.
EWF