Fine Knit Material Made Procedurally in Substance Designer
This Fine Knit is so soft to look at, you'll want to touch your screen. Digitally knitted according to a traditional knitting scheme for your most charming designs. You can purchase this material as a Substance file (4K maps included) on www.iana.digital.
Nodes for Digital Knit
There is an unmistakable way to create any real knitted pattern in Substance Designer with the Tile Sampler node.
Here is the strategy:
1. Find an existing knitting scheme or make your own (picture 1); Cover each knitted column/raw with a shade of grey per a type of loop (picture 2) to create a grayscale Distribution Map;
2. Create the knitting loops the way they can be easily tiled (pictures 3-7);
3. Bring the Tile Sampler node, set the Pattern to ‘Pattern Input’, Pattern Input Number to 5, and Pattern Input Distribution to ‘Distribution Map’; Connect the loops to the Pattern Inputs, your grayscale pattern to the ‘Pattern Distribution Map Input’ (picture 8).
Voilà! You’ve learned how to bring any intricate knitting pattern to the digital realm.
Here is the strategy:
1. Find an existing knitting scheme or make your own (picture 1); Cover each knitted column/raw with a shade of grey per a type of loop (picture 2) to create a grayscale Distribution Map;
2. Create the knitting loops the way they can be easily tiled (pictures 3-7);
3. Bring the Tile Sampler node, set the Pattern to ‘Pattern Input’, Pattern Input Number to 5, and Pattern Input Distribution to ‘Distribution Map’; Connect the loops to the Pattern Inputs, your grayscale pattern to the ‘Pattern Distribution Map Input’ (picture 8).
Voilà! You’ve learned how to bring any intricate knitting pattern to the digital realm.
