Blender 3D: Designing Objects

Creating cloth materials with procedurals

In this recipe, we will create a generic cloth material, as shown in the following screenshot:

The cloth material as it appears in the final rendering

Getting ready

Before we start creating the material, let's set up the scene by performing the following steps:

1. Start Blender and load the 9931OS_cloth_start.blend file. In the scene, there is already a cloth simulation.
2. Click on the Play animation button in the Timeline toolbar (or press Alt + A) to see the simulation running and being cached in real time. It consists of a Plane (our fabric) draped on a UV Sphere leaning on a bigger Plane (the floor).
3. After the ...