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Procedural Wood Studies
3D Render by ckojicA deep dive into fully procedural wood shading, focusing on realistic grain flow, material physics, and seamless mapless workflows.
Key Highlights:
100% Procedural Workflow: Created entirely without UV mapping or texture seams, ensuring infinite scaling and flexibility across any mesh topology.
Directional Grain Alignment: The wood fibers naturally curve and follow the geometric contour and curvature of the object, mimicking authentic natural growth.
Advanced Material Physics: Includes a subtle Subsurface Scattering (SSS) pass to capture natural light bleed through organic wood layers, combined with custom directional Anisotropy to emulate real-world fiber sheen and reflection.
Minimal Form, Complex Shading: Applied to simple geometric forms to keep the spotlight entirely on the complexity, depth, and micro-details of the material.
Key Highlights:
100% Procedural Workflow: Created entirely without UV mapping or texture seams, ensuring infinite scaling and flexibility across any mesh topology.
Directional Grain Alignment: The wood fibers naturally curve and follow the geometric contour and curvature of the object, mimicking authentic natural growth.
Advanced Material Physics: Includes a subtle Subsurface Scattering (SSS) pass to capture natural light bleed through organic wood layers, combined with custom directional Anisotropy to emulate real-world fiber sheen and reflection.
Minimal Form, Complex Shading: Applied to simple geometric forms to keep the spotlight entirely on the complexity, depth, and micro-details of the material.
This is completely above my pay grade, but I absolutely love how the wood texture looks! It is fantastic. So realistic looking. The fiber and sheen look great! I am totally impressed.
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ckojic
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Mon, Jul 27Thanks a ton! That means a lot. The wood texture was definitely the most fun part to develop—spent a good deal of time tweaking the fibers and sheen to make it feel authentic. Glad you like it!
KACreativeDesigns
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Mon, Jul 27If you decided to sell this as an fbx or Daz Studio file, please let me know. It would be perfect for some of my kid renders 
ckojic
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Mon, Jul 27I can give you the model for free, but materials might be an issue due to their procedural nature and tight integration with V-Ray. The model isn't fully UV unmapped, and there are some textures I can't share. However, if you want a clean model, I'd be happy to provide it.
KACreativeDesigns
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Thu, Aug 06I totally missed this reply. I apologize. I've only used Daz Studio and I'm just now discovering how to import FBX models into Daz and texturize them. This is probably a really stupid question, but what does it mean that it is not "fully UV unmapped?" And (another stupid question) what is a clean model. Will I be able to add texture maps to it? Thank you again for responding. And now I've seen that you've made even more. Please consider selling them...hint hint hint! LOL
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