Procedural Knitwear Shader [Free Download]

Pixelshatter · December 29, 2018, 10:37pm

Hi there,
I want to present my most recent procedural shader for Blender. A realistic knitting shader that can be driven by usual image textures and makes excessive use of micro-displacement.

Here it is simply slapped onto a basic cloth-sim:

I included 3 basic patterns with the file:

Let me quickly abuse twitter for video hosting:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1079011567360974848

You can get it here for free:

For more/hires renders visit my Artstation:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1nN3l2

Time to knit some mittens!
Cheers

EdgeMaster · December 30, 2018, 8:58pm

Thanks this is awesome!

jimbobrjames · December 30, 2018, 9:02pm

Thats really good! Well done.

Linkun · January 1, 2019, 4:20am

You’re such an incredible person, Simon. We really don’t deserve you

Pixelshatter · January 1, 2019, 3:59pm

You really are too kind, I am just trying to do my part for the Blender community by doing what I enjoy doing
Thanks for the compliment though

Stuntkoala · January 1, 2019, 4:12pm

Just amazing. That’s the stuff that you would expect from Substance Designer not pure procedural Cycles.

William · January 1, 2019, 8:23pm

Impressive. Most impressive.

skuax · January 1, 2019, 8:37pm

Really knit!

garagefarm · January 2, 2019, 10:25am

This is awesome.
I think I am going to knit now.

Thanks
Jarek D(DJ)

jorari71 · January 3, 2019, 9:08am

Is this for Blender 2.79 or for2.80 version?.
Thank you and…Happy new year!.

Pixelshatter · January 3, 2019, 12:30pm

Happy new year
It’s for both versions. I built the main file in 2.80 but I added an adapted one for 2.79 on gumroad

yogyog · January 3, 2019, 12:38pm

This is amazing. First you had an unwavering belief that it was possible to create a realistic procedural knitted material - then you made it!

Pixelshatter · January 3, 2019, 5:52pm

That sounds more heroic than it actually was but thanks

jorari71 · January 3, 2019, 5:55pm

Thank you very much.
And happy new year.

Fweeb · January 3, 2019, 6:10pm

Guess what? You’re #featured!

Pixelshatter · January 3, 2019, 6:42pm

That’s awesome, thanks so much!

bliblubli · January 3, 2019, 7:13pm

Really well done, thanks for sharing!

BuildJordon · January 3, 2019, 9:04pm

Awesome man ill try this out…

Nunud · January 4, 2019, 11:13am

Oh wow! The Blender community never ceases to amaze me!

rombout · January 5, 2019, 4:24pm

Man your setup is like a maze!!! Holy cow does this look complicated. Im not into cycles but was curious for the knitting tex. Finding the main took me a while.

Outcome looks stunning.

One thing i still not sure how you did is the small fray hairs. Is that some sort masked displacement orso?