40 Lace Fabric Trim Pattern + Substance Tools — VOL 12

Lace costs a character artist a week of work and reads for half a second, which is the argument for owning a library of it rather than authoring one per job. This twelfth volume of the fabric series is the studio's trim collection: forty border strips built to run along a hem, a cuff, a collar or a table edge, and eight trim sheets for the cases where one texture has to serve a whole garment. It was authored against Marvelous Designer and Substance, and the opacity channel does the cutting, so a scalloped edge holds without a single extra polygon behind it.

What is in the download

• 40 lace trim and border texture sets
• 8 trim sheet texture sets
• 40 substance materials in SBSAR format
• Normal, Height, Ambient Occlusion and Opacity for every set
• 16-bit PNG and TIFF throughout, with layered PSD and EXR displacement in the archives
• A preview render of each pattern
• A short video tutorial on putting the pack to work

The trims go on late in the process. Bring an SBSAR into Substance Painter, drop it onto the strip of UV space the hem occupies, and the exposed parameters set scale and repeat without a trip back to Designer. The opacity map is the part worth planning for: assign it to the alpha slot and the edge cuts itself, which is what lets a flat plane read as needlework under a close render. For sculpted work the Height map is the authored original rather than something derived, so it pushes straight through a displacement modifier, and the EXR is there for pipelines that carry displacement in floating point.

The eight trim sheets answer the other half of the job. Instead of one motif tiling forever, a sheet packs several bands into a single texture, so a bodice, its sleeves and its skirt panel can share one material and one draw call between them. Laying UV shells across the bands is quicker than authoring a pattern per piece, and the bands sit on a common baseline, so a shell can be moved from one to another without re-aligning anything.