CLO Import

CLO is a 3D fashion design software program. Our materials can be imported using the following process:

Export

On the platform, select a material and export it as a PBR export.

Depending on your quality requirements you may choose between 72 DPI and Original resolution. For the file format choose either JPEG (compressed) or TIFF.

If you need another file format, you can also create a custom export. The corresponding settings would be:

Setting	Value
Workflow	Metalness / Roughness
Engine	VRay
Normal Y	+Y up
Resolution	dpi72 (low) or original

Download

Once the export is done, you can download it as a ZIP file. It contains all the required PBR maps plus some additional metadata info.txt. Unzip the file into a folder of your choice. Each map file is named according to the following schema

{material name}-{map type}.{extension}

For above example, the material name would be 43264-07, the extension would be jpeg .

The following colormass map types are linked with the CLO PBR maps:

colormass Map Type	CLO PBR Map
diffuse	Base Color Map
normal	Normal Map
displacement	Displacement Map
alpha	Opacity Map
roughness	Roughness Map
metalness	Metalness Map
specular	Reflection Intensity (see below)
anisotropy-rotation	Not supported
anisotropy-strength	Not supported
transmission	Not supported

Import

Open CLO and select the material you would like to modify. Make sure that the material is set to PBR and the type is set to Fabric_Matte

Now load in the maps according to above table by clicking on the little icon next to each map. For the roughness, you first have to switch the type to Map .

Other Settings

Some additional settings may be needed to be setup manually

Property	Value
Base Color ⇒ Color	White / FFFFFF
Normal Map ⇒ Intensity	100
Opacity ⇒ Opacity	100
Reflection ⇒ Roughness ⇒ Map Intensity	100
Reflection ⇒ Roughness ⇒ Metalness	100

Displacement Amount

For the Displacement Map you would need to setup an additional Amount (mm) value. You can find this in the info.txt of the downloaded zip file. Note that this is provided in cm but CLO expects mm, so you would have to multiply this value by a factor of 10.

Reflection Intensity

The reflection intensity is a parameter in CLO that allows boosting the specular intensity. This should be set to 0 to just use the specular information provided "as-is" from the PBR maps.

Accuracy

By default, we calculate more maps than CLO can handle. As a consequence, if you have to leave out some of these maps in CLO, this can slightly reduce the fidelity of the CLO visualization compared to the physical material.

If you only want CLO suited maps as an end result, we can also directly calculate just this reduced set of maps that CLO supports. This will make the result as good as they can get in CLO.

Please contact us in this case.

Result

Results are best shown using rendering in CLO. Note, however, that CLO does not support all the information provided by the colormass PBR scanner (such as anisotropy and transmission).