Tutorial by CGIndia



CGIndia brings you another very useful tutorial for 3ds Max users. In this brief tutorial, Mario Malagrino of Florence Design Academy explains how to create a Leather material in 3ds Max. Leather is one of the most used materials in the field of Furniture design. Especially for design of sofas or couches. It is quite easy to obtain a good leather material. The leather material quality strongly depends on the illumination in your scene.Before you start to create the leather in the material editor you must first analyze exactly the type of leather that you want to simulate in 3D Studio Max. After this step go to choose an image which has the pattern/texture of the real leather. Here in image below, you can see an examples of images/maps which allow us to create a perfect leather texture in the material editor. The first one is a simple image of a scanned paper, the second one is made with Photoshop.