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Photoshop Brushes for Making Wrinkle Disclacement Maps for Fabric?

FauvistFauvist Posts: 2,152
edited November 2013 in The Commons

There are some remarkarably fine clothing models I've bought at DAZ and I'd like to make displacement maps for them to simulate wrinkles, gathers, and folds etc. Can anyone recommend any Photoshop brushes (or how to make them) to simulate these in the surface of 3D clothing?

I've tried using the gradiant tool, and some of the soft brushes in Photoshop, but the results are uneven. I need brushes (or some technique) to make flawlessly flowing ridges.

Thanks!

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  • AllegraAllegra Posts: 405
    edited December 1969

    Atenais over at Renderosity has some very nice big ps fabric fold brushes, PB-Folds ;)

  • TjebTjeb Posts: 507
    edited December 1969

    Don't know exactly what effect you want to achieve.
    Something like this...?

    ClothesBrushes.jpg
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  • FauvistFauvist Posts: 2,152
    edited December 1969

    tjeb said:
    Don't know exactly what effect you want to achieve.
    Something like this...?

    Those look good, but they are 2 dimensional images of folds placed on the surface of the clothes, like a design on a T-shirt. What I'm looking for is Photoshop brushes to make 3D displacement maps. Here's an example of the effect i'm looking for. It's a pair of pants I bought for M4 - on the materials I made soft lines in black and white to make a displacement map.

    wrinkle_brushes.png
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  • SeleneyueSeleneyue Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    I would just use a very soft brush. If you have a tablet it's much easier work.

  • WilmapWilmap Posts: 2,917
    edited December 1969

    Don't know if these are of any use to you.

    http://bongistka.deviantart.com/art/21-Cloth-Zbrush-Alphas-199473915

    They are all in PSD (Photoshop) format but if you can open them you can use the images to add them to your displacement map. I have done this with a couple of items and they work quite well.

  • FauvistFauvist Posts: 2,152
    edited December 1969

    Seleneyue said:
    I would just use a very soft brush. If you have a tablet it's much easier work.

    I've tried the Photoshop soft brushes, but they produce a very uneven gradient that results in, not only the displacement, but in a rough texturing of the surface. I can use a soft brush, and then use a blur filter to even it out, but it gets complicated trying to do that selectively.

  • AllegraAllegra Posts: 405
    edited December 1969

    What about taking a photo of how you want the fabric to fall and make your own brush?

  • pwiecekpwiecek Posts: 1,582
    edited November 2013

    This isn't exactly what you were asking for, but it might help.

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/3269/

    Post edited by pwiecek on
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