Fibric Damage

Overview

Fibric Damage is a modifier that brings realism and character to garments by adding aging, tearing, and organic imperfections to cloth. It works by selectively removing geometry and introducing controlled distortions, with support for attribute-based masks or image textures to define where damage occurs. 

General

• Selection

List of Fibric products to be affected by Fibric Damage.

Global Noise Tab

• Mask: No Override (Global Affection), Mesh attribute, Texture.

Default Noise

Adds organic, randomized deformation to cloth points using a controllable noise pattern. Adjust frequency and amplitude to dial in the intensity and scale of the distortion for natural wear and surface detail.

• Frequency (x,y,z)
  Controls the scale of the noise pattern. 

• Amplitude
  Controls the intensity of the distortion.

• Safe Collisions
  Forces deformation to remain outward-facing, reducing the risk of collisions with internal meshes.

By Curve Noise

Offsets curve primitives with controllable noise to create natural yarn shifting and deformation effects.

• Frequency (x,y,z)
  Controls the scale of the noise pattern along the curves; higher values create more frequent shifts.

• Amplitude
  Controls the intensity of the curve offset; higher values create more pronounced yarn displacement.

• Safe Collisions
  Forces deformation to remain outward-facing, reducing the risk of collisions with internal meshes.

Random Width Tab

• Random Amount
  Remap of the Width by using the raw damage mask.

• Seed
  Multiplier of the width value for weft yarns.

• Mask: No Override (Global Affection), Mesh attribute, Texture.

Tearing Tab

Controls fabric tearing using an input mask that drives yarn width reduction. The mask acts as a gradient (0 = no effect, 1 = full tear), progressively thinning the yarns until they disappear.

By default, width acts as the master control, and its mask is shared across all tearing features such as Noise, Keep Threads, and Leftovers. Each feature can optionally use its own custom mask if needed for more localized control.

Width (Main control)

• Remove by Width
  Removes any point with a width below the specified value. 

• Mask Threshold
  Threshold of the mask that affects the "remove by width"; it works optimally with smooth/soft masks.

• Mask: No Override (bypass), Mesh attribute(default: damage), Texture.

Noise

Dedicated noise for tearing. Behaves like Global Noise, but by default uses the same mask as Width.

• Mask: No Override (Mask from Width), Mesh attribute, Texture.

Keep Threads

Retains a percentage of threads from tearing, allowing custom remapping of width and noise for those preserved fibers. 

• Keep Weft Percentage
  Percentage of weft yarns preserved after tearing.

• Keep Warp Percentage
  Percentage of warp yarns preserved after tearing.

Width(subtab)

• • Weft Width
    Width of preserved weft threads. 

  • Warp Width
    Width of preserved warp threads. 

  •  Random
    Random width of preserved threads.

  • Mask: No Override (Mask from Width), Mesh attribute, Texture.

Noise

Dedicated noise for "Keep Threads". Behaves like Global Noise, but by default uses the same mask as Width.

• • Mask: No Override (Mask from Width), Mesh attribute, Texture.

Left Overs

Creates new fibers around tear down areas for realistic fraying and wear (similar to Fibric_Fuzz's "Edges Fuzz" feature).

• Enable
  Toggle left overs on or off. 

• Resample
  Adjust the number of points per curve. 

• Density
  Control the density of left overs with randomization and masking options. 

• Length
  Set the length of left overs with randomization and masking options. 

• Width
  Control the width of left overs with randomization and masking options. 

• Root/Tip Ramp (Width)
  Remap width distribution along the curve from root to tip. 

• Noise
  Add procedural noise along left over curves with adjustable frequency, offset, and amplitude. 

• Mask: No Override (Mask from Width), Mesh attribute, Texture.