Medieval Jewelry Material
A substance inspired by medieval and byzantine styles of jewelry. I liked the idea of challenging myself to create something using twisted and curling wire in Substance Designer. I had this partially completed for a long time and finally went in and finished the gemstones and rendered the material.
Reference images collected in PureRef. The major elements are polished, uncut gems and detailed decoration with gold balls and wires.
In some reference images, some older gold takes on a darker tone and accumulates a reddish grime. This was the coloring I wanted to achieve.
The main material creates the decoration shapes, feeds those shapes into gold and gemstone subgraphs, and then blends them together.
Adjustment parameters for the gem and gold materials