Curtain

Preview of the final product

A linen curtain wih folds

The Problem we wanted to solve

Have light bleed through the material while some areas have less.

The solution

For the material, I created a scatter mask with imperfections with the darker areas having less light shinning through.

Making the Curtain

In Autodesk Maya, I made a high poly plane and connected it to a cylinder by applying nCloth physics to the plane and connecting the top points to the cylinder. Then using interactive playback I adjusted the look to get the folds.

Creating the Material

Using a flat plane in substance painter, I created a quick linen material and added a few masks to create folds and minor imperfections with the help of a quick default linen material.

Material Setup

First bring the textures into the material and quickly attach them to their respective inputs .

Adjust Texture Scale

Off to the side, use the Texture Coordinates plugged into a Multiply with a ScalarParameter to change the size of the textures and plug the multiplies into the UV inputs of the textures.