Cloth

The Cloth texture map can be used to generate a procedural cloth texture. It gives a high level of control making it an easy matter to produce the look of a loose or close weaved cloth. It also allows control over the amount of random weave distortion and its channels can be connected to texture maps.

UI Path: ||V-Ray Node Editor|| > Shader > Add > Textures > V-Ray Cloth

This section describes the input sockets of the node. Some sockets have dedicated parameters, which are further described below, and some sockets are just inputs.

Mapping – Allows a UVW Mapping, or a UVW Randomizer node to be connected to determine the mapping of the ramp.

Gap Color (input socket) – Allows a color node to be assigned to the Gap Color parameter.

U /V Color (input socket) – Allows an integer-outputting node to be assigned to the U/V Color parameters.

U/V Width (input socket) – Allows an integer-outputting node to be assigned to the U/V Width parameters.

U/V Wave (input socket) – Allows an integer-outputting node to be assigned to the U/V Wave parameters.

Randomness (input socket) – Allows an integer-outputting node to be assigned to the Randomness parameter.

Width/Bright Spread (input socket) – Allows an integer-outputting node to be assigned to the Width/Bright Spread parameters.

Compatibility – Allows you to match the result of the texture in Blender to that in either 3ds Max or Maya. If Alpha From is set to Maya:

3ds Max – The resulting alpha of the texture is the intensity of the texture.
Maya – The resulting alpha of the texture is the color luminescence.

 Alpha From – Determines how the alpha of the result is calculated:

Force 1.0 – Alpha is always 1.
Compatibility – Depends on the selected Compatibility option.
Self – The calculated alpha of the texture.

Invert – When enabled inverts the colors in final result.

Invert Alpha – Inverts the alpha channel if Invert is also enabled.

Color Mult – Corrects the color of the texture by multiplying the the RGB color values in the texture with the RGB color values specified here. 

Color Offset – Corrects the color of the texture by adding the RGB color values specified here to the RGB color values of the texture. 

Alpha Mult – Specifies a multiplier for the texture alpha.

Alpha Offset – Specifies an additional offset for the texture alpha.

No UVs Color – Specifies a default color used for polygons with no valid UVs. In case the map is not tiled, specifies a default color that is used outside the texture square.  

Placement Type – Select how to place the texture.

Whole texture is valid
Crop
Place

U – U coordinate of the texture sector. 

V – V coordinate of the texture sector. 

W – W coordinate of the texture sector. 

H – Specifies the height of the texture sector.

Tile U/ Tile V – Enable to choose between a horizontal or vertical tiling.

UV noise on – Enables the noise. 

UV noise amount – Specifies the UV noise amount.

UV noise levels – Specifies the UV noise iterations. 

UV noise size – Specifies the UV noise size. 

UV noise phase – Specifies the UV noise phase. 

Animate UV noise – If enabled, the noise is animated. Use the UV noise phase to animate the noise.

Gap Color – Controls the color of the gaps between the fabric fibers.

U/V Color – Controls the horizontal/vertical thread color.

U/V Width – Controls the horizontal/vertical thread width.

U/V Wave – Controls the amount of wave in the horizontal/vertical direction.

Randomness – Randomizes the waves based on a noise. 

Width Spread – Randomizes the fibers' width based on noise.

Bright Spread – Randomizes the texture brightness based on noise.