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Smooth, soft and a bit grainy texture

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meetdilip (meetdilip) October 11, 2020, 12:13pm 1

I see this kind of texture used a lot in many images. It is like people are using a shiny and smooth grainy glass. Please see the middle portion of this image. The yellow cloth suddenly looks amazing under this texture beam. I would love to learn how to make that smooth and grainy texture. Thanks.

I have v 2.82a

In case you are having trouble viewing the image : https://imgur.com/zgAUFRp

lehuan5062 (Huân Lê-Vương) October 11, 2020, 3:18pm 2

I have trouble seeing the image. This is the downloaded version (and when I click the image):

This is the preview thumbnail on the platform:

So which is the one you want?

lehuan5062 (Huân Lê-Vương) October 11, 2020, 3:24pm 3

The first one might be some work with SSS.

meetdilip (meetdilip) October 12, 2020, 1:25am 4

Thanks. I will try this solution

I am not sure what happened with the image. Please see this upload on Imgur

meetdilip (meetdilip) October 12, 2020, 1:45am 5

I do not see an option for " Roughness " when I used noise Texture on a smooth Torus. Image attached

lehuan5062 (Huân Lê-Vương) October 12, 2020, 1:04pm 6

You’re in 2.82? I don’t know about 2.82 but my version is 2.90.1

meetdilip (meetdilip) October 12, 2020, 2:14pm 7

Really sorry. I should have mentioned. Hope someone using 2.8 will be able to shed some light. Thanks for helping.

moonboots (moonboots) October 12, 2020, 2:41pm 8

yes some SSS and a bit of noise to make it more natural

meetdilip (meetdilip) October 12, 2020, 2:50pm 9

Thanks. May I know what is SSS ?

lehuan5062 (Huân Lê-Vương) October 12, 2020, 2:52pm 10

Subsurface Scattering.

meetdilip (meetdilip) October 12, 2020, 2:54pm 11

Looks like I have added both.

meetdilip (meetdilip) October 12, 2020, 3:18pm 12

I think I managed to get a working combination. We need to choose a dull colour as well for the object for the proper effect

meetdilip (meetdilip) October 12, 2020, 3:20pm 13

Is there any method to save this shading and apply to other objects like a material ?

moonboots (moonboots) October 12, 2020, 3:22pm 14

I was thinking about something like that (to be improved):

meetdilip (meetdilip) October 12, 2020, 3:24pm 15

Looks great. I will try and update. Thanks.

meetdilip (meetdilip) October 12, 2020, 3:38pm 16

Sadly, there is no option to input " Roughness " in Noise Texture in 2.82a which I am using. But thanks to both of you, I got this now.

moonboots (moonboots) October 12, 2020, 3:56pm 17

I don’t think that it will be the important thing here, it’s rather the SSS tweaking that’s important to set correctly