Realistic Soap Bar Shader

Support Materials and Textures
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I am trying to make some photo realistic product shots for a client, of some artisan soap bars. Im thinking the best way to do this is probably with procedural shaders but I have no idea where to start, particularly the ones with bits in it! How would I go about making the shader. Im guessing a bit of sub surface scattering is wise too.

Also whats the best way to rough them up a bit? the real bars are made by hand and cut with a hot knife i think, which means they are not perfectly square, so i’m thinking sculpting and possibly micro displacement, or just go with bump maps?

Heres some reference photos of the real bars…

soap-one
soap-one930×837 628 KB

soap-threea
soap-threea930×786 483 KB

soap-two
soap-two930×837 439 KB

Any help would be great :slight_smile:

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Thanks, I had a mess around with that and its not quite what i’m after, although there are some ideas i can from it.

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After messing around for about 15 minutes this is what I came up with.

Obviously the colors are off on the spots, but here is a procedural version that you can tweak some more (the color ramp flags add/remove spots and the mixRGB node is for changing spot colors).

On the left is the procedural version (which needs to be improved, the right is image texture)

And I made a seamless texture of the OG soap you posted.

test
test1920×1080 651 KB

1a
1a2123×940 182 KB

1b
1b1697×968 139 KB

Seamless%20Soap
Seamless%20Soap1240×1026 404 KB

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Oh man! that was really kind of you…thank you… ill give it a shot.

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