Railway Sleeper Material

Support Materials and Textures
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I am making a railway generator and am struggling to get the sleepers looking right. Below is an example:

reclaimed-oak-railway-sleeper

It is abit shiny, because it is hard?, and it doesn’t have much texture. What would be the best way to make this, noise texture and play with values?

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You can get the result in your picture with a Principled BSDF, some Metallic, and some Roughness. You may want a roughness closer to 0, I’d say .15 would be perfect- but a big part of what you’re seeing is geometry based. There’s a very sharp crease a quarter of the way down that metal rod. You aren’t going to be able to texture that (you could, but it’ll be a pain)- instead, you need to match the geometry to see that same creasing

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It is going to be on a train track, mostly in the distance with a train on it taking your eye away, thankfully.