Work In Progress - Victorian Cape Embroidery (Patreon)

It's time for some finishing touches to the Victorian Cape Neck Piece textures in Substance Painter. Time to decorate the plain mesh material with some nice floral embroidery.

At first I thought I would draw the whole thing by hand, but I came up with an idea of drawing just a fragment in a vector graphics editor and then distribute it all over the neckpiece main form as a stamp - only rotating and trimming the drawing. I like to leave things a bit random and rough to make it look more like hand-made ;)

That's why I prepared a custom alpha for the brush and hand placed the pieces creating the embroidery mask. Then, I set up the material properties - diffuse: black, specular: 50% grey, height: 50%, opacity: 100%. I've got to tweak the materials a bit more soon.

I'm still debating if to do the beads with geometry or to leave this embroidery layer a bit flat as it is now.

More progress soon :)

K.