For years I’ve avoided using the stock fabric material Roblox gives us. It’s not a general purpose fabric texture in any way, instead looking more like a burlap material over something that would be used as carpet, for a tent, a wagon cover, or whatever other use a fabric material may otherwise have.
So I started messing around with it. I was originally looking for the different terrain materials, hint; they’re all in one sheet, to cover a hole up in a game of mine where I wanted to have the exterior visible from inside the cave, but the cave hidden from the exterior.
After several hours of work, in which I honestly could have much more easily created a new material from scratch in Substance Designer with a higher quality, I present to you…
Creaty's Fabulously Adjusted Fabric texture!
Here are some before and after images. Keep in mind that the comparison fabric is not fully accurate, as it is a dirty swap of diamond plate. Due to this, the stock fabric comparison also does not utilize the alpha map from the diffuse of the fabric, which is what gives it all of those little spots throughout the texture.
The adjusted fabric’s colors are generally more consistent and accurate, whilst still maintaining that old, weathered fabric feel the original aimed for. I have also removed the horizontal lines from the texture in favor of a more seamless feel.
Before and Afters
Default part grey. Left is new, right is stock.
The adjusted fabric matches closer to the colors that are properly selected within the engine, and thus will be more accurate to your vision for any use case!
Full black
Full white
Some additional color variations in a general use case
New reflection map
I also adjusted the reflection map to be a bit more glossy, but more consistent, across the entire fabric texture.
…not all things are perfect, but still fun to see just how reflective the material is. The ability to adjust this using the reflectance would be really cool, and would allow us to make materials look like they’re wet much more easily.
I’m pretty happy with how it looks, but it could still be much better. I’m interested to see how this looks in any of your hands, so post below what you end up doing with it! 
WINDOWS INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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Open up Roblox Studio
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Right click the Studio icon on your taskbar.
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Right click “RobloxStudio” and click “Properties”
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Highlight the location property and press CTRL+C to copy it
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Open up windows explorer and paste the location into the bar at the top of the window
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Navigate to PlatformContent > pc > textures > fabric
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Make a back up of your stock fabric textures. I put them in a folder called “backup”
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Extract and copy the contents of “Creaty’s Fabulously Adjusted Fabric.7z” to this folder.
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Make some dang fine places!
Download link: Creaty's Fabulously Adjusted Fabric.7z - Google Drive
