Need help with texturing an image that has 2 different materials. Feeling extra noob.

Jeribee

Hey all!

So I'm trying to texture a label in Maya using the Arnold 5 substance surface material. The solid black label itself is matte but the white line designs on it need to have a shinier metallic/foil kind of look. I plugged in a specular map (just white and black) but It doesn't seem like it's making a difference. The texture on everything looks the same. Texturing is not my forte, but I gotta do it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

throttlekitty

Can you post a pic of the material in the hypershade so we can see what you have connected?

It's always helpful to try to isolate your problem- in this case, only plug in your specular/roughness/whatever map so you can see for sure if it's working without other influences.

Jeribee

HI! Here's what I have so far and that's what I'm getting. I used the same texture file for the spec and bump since it was just for the white.

throttlekitty

Thanks! Put your specular map into the Weight slot, and start with setting Color back to white and adjust that to your liking. The weight values in these shaders is more like an intensity or mask that give more flexibility over the older methods of just plugging straight into color.

Jeribee

Thank you for the tip. I'm making the changes now, but I still can't get that contrast of matte against shiny. Do you have any suggestions for making the black part matte without affecting the shine in the white?

Jeribee

I messed with it some but it stills looks about the same. I was wanting the lines to be a bit more reflective like these examples. Maybe it's the lighting/color?

Eric Chadwick

Chrome/steel is done with no color in the albedo/Base color (make it black). All the color from chrome comes from the reflection.

Your model also needs a scene to reflect, instead of just white. Your bottom reference has a white wall behind it, but black cards on the sides, and behind the camera. And two white area lights on either side of the camera.

It helps to look at reflective surfaces to figure out what the lighting setup was.

Also helps to study lighting setups for commercial photography.
https://www.sekonic.com/canada/whatisyourspecialty/photographer/articles/white-line-and-black-line-lighting.aspx

Jeribee

Hey Eric Chadwick - Thank you so much! I was wracking my brain trying to figure that out and all I needed was to take out the white color I had in the base color lol. You're a life saver!

Regarding lighting, that's something I DEFINITELY need to work on so thanks as well for the article