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Iray Khaki Shaders/Merchant Resource

RobotHeadArtRobotHeadArt Posts: 917
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There are many wool/silk/cotton/denim Iray shader sets and merchant resources but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of khaki fabric.

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  • chris-2599934chris-2599934 Posts: 1,817

    What's the difference between "khaki fabric" and cotton that's brownish in colour? That's what khaki clothes tend to be made of.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131

    khaki is a tan brown and made of mercurized cotton but I forget what the weave is called as I'm not a tailor. nowaways though khaki is often used a a synomyn for a tan color.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,651

    I could use a khaki shader. I recently bought a fabric set which included neutral  brownish shaders, but the khaki turned out to be just a brown denim with ribs like jeans. Not what I was looking for at all. 

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131
    edited January 2017
    Serene Night said:

    I could use a khaki shader. I recently bought a fabric set which included neutral  brownish shaders, but the khaki turned out to be just a brown denim with ribs like jeans. Not what I was looking for at all. 

    Well khaki pants like Levi's Dockers will have a similar weave as jeans.

    I think you probably are looking for a ripstop fabric like used on the summer BDU military clothing. I have bought the Genesis 2 / Genesis 3 texture pack that was an add-on for the Genesis 2 / Genesis 3 military BDUs. Those textures should be ripstop fabric textures.

    Actually, I have those sets and I just looked and they're using the winter BDU fabric which is just a mercurized cotton weaved like denim but tighter and it looks like the scale used for those fabric textures is much to huge on the hems. Sorry, I don't know what that weave is called but it is a type of twill weave. 

    Summer BDUs will be made of ripstop fabric. I think I will buy the old M4/V4 military clothing BDU bundles to see if they have ripcord fabric textures.

    I have the PBS iRay Texture Shader Presets from MEC4D and those have some cloth camo fabrics but the weave pattern is not American military. The Camo pattern is also not typical American military, although I'm not sure on that as they keep changing it (they must be pumping money to favored contractors by forcing wholesale uniform changes periodically). Maybe it is Finn military in the MEC4D camo fabrics.

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  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,651

    A material like this in shades of navy to khaki would be useful

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131
    Serene Night said:

    A material like this in shades of navy to khaki would be useful

    Can't tell at that resolution what that is but I think those are made of a weave called poplin.

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