Warp and Weft: Fabrics and Soft Goods

25 fabrics for any Zero world, at real size and ready to swap by name. Woven cloth, pile and knits, leathers, rope and quilting, and four cartoon looks. They plug straight into Swatchbook, the shared material library, so they show up in its list, picker and swatch gallery the moment you install. No setup code.

What you get

• Woven: cotton calico, raw indigo denim, stonewashed denim, natural linen, heavy canvas duck, burlap sackcloth, crimson shot silk dupioni, champagne satin charmeuse, Black Watch wool tartan
• Pile, knit and fluffy: chunky wool knit, wool felt, burgundy velvet, cut-pile carpet, Berber loop carpet, faux fur
• Leather: smooth cognac, worn and cracked, sand suede
• Soft goods: three-strand manila rope, quilted diamond cushion fabric
• Stylised: toon cotton, toon denim, toon velvet, hand-painted knit, flat-colour felt

Made to read as the real thing

• Real weave structures at real size: plain, twill and satin weaves with true yarn pitch, knit stitches, tufts and loops, leather grain, and rope lay. One unit is one metre.
• The engine's own lighting: velvet, satin, silk and suede glow at grazing angles. Satin and silk stretch their highlight across the threads, and fur carries paired strand highlights.
• Built for cloth that moves: every fabric is two-sided. The included FabricCloth keeps a fabric at real size on a physically draped sheet or a soft cushion when a player swaps it.
• Checked with Swatchbook's own tools: seamless when tiled 4 × 4, no shimmer or moiré at 30 m, and inside the web build's texture limits. Each fabric was made against a reference picture, which ships with it.
• 23.9 MB of texture for all 25 (32.3 MB with the reference pictures).

Multiplayer

Apply a fabric with the picker or Materials.apply(object, "velvet"), and every player in the world sees it, including players who join later. The draped sheet and cushions in this world are shared soft bodies.

Install

Search ZeroMind for fabricsMaterials and install it. Swatchbook comes with it. Then:

local Materials = require("~materialLibraryKit.Materials")
Materials.apply(myObject, "denimIndigo")

In this world

You arrive in Swatchbook's gallery under its Studio look. All 25 fabrics stand on one ring, each on a floor tile, wall, cube, sphere, shader ball and cylinder, with its reference picture framed beside it. In the middle, a linen sheet drapes over a table and three cushions sit on a bench. Click any of them and pick a fabric.

Known limit: the gallery is heavy. In the desktop editor it runs at about 10 fps while the full ring of 25 stands, a cost that comes from Swatchbook's gallery itself; the fabrics cost nothing per frame. It has not yet been measured in a browser (OrigoZero/zero#20946). The package README has the numbers and the full list of limits.

MIT licensed. Built on Swatchbook, Brick and Mortar and Forge and Patina (all MIT).