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Re: FAQ: How u make dem mats? Hands-on mini-tuts for making materials and texturing
Normal map - defines per-pixel shading information albedo map, diffuse map, color map, all the same thing really (albedo defines diffuse and specular in metalness workflow more here) gloss map, roughness map, same thing, defines how rough or smooth the surface is which in turn defines how broad or narrow the specular… -
Re: FAQ: How u make dem mats? Hands-on mini-tuts for making materials and texturing
I'm guessing the term Physical is used since it tries to mimic reality to a greater extent than more traditional used to. There's a substance texture as well which pretty much defines a Index Of Refraction value which defines the material. What this affects is such parameters as at what viewing angle will the material… -
Re: FAQ: How u make dem mats? Hands-on mini-tuts for making materials and texturing
with any sort of paint, that paint becomes the material you're defining, not the metal underneath until the paint scrapes off. usually unless it's some form of pearlescent or layered paint it won't have any specular color. find a picture of paint on a tank. it's very matte, which means it doesn't reflect much of anything.… -
Re: FAQ: How u make dem mats? Hands-on mini-tuts for making materials and texturing
The main defining characteristic for this type of material is the color variation in the specular reflections. Ideally you would even want to use a two-layered specular component, like you would for a car shader, to pull off the effect. Simple greyscale makes the look very hard to pull off, you've gotta "bake" the color… -
Re: FAQ: How u make dem mats? Hands-on mini-tuts for making materials and texturing
I feel like that was kind of a confusing explanation, though it does have some good points (and maybe some inaccuracies? some things I couldn't quite make sense of some stuff from the wording). There's a few key bits of physics at play. Absorption, refraction, reflection, transmission are the most important in the context… -
Re: FAQ: How u make dem mats? Hands-on mini-tuts for making materials and texturing
Studying PBR theory, a question came to my mind. According to the sources, Diffuse and Specular, in physics, are 2 sides of the same coin: Specular is when the light bounces from the surface linearly in the opposite direction Diffuse is when it gets scattered around (and, if I got it correctly, roughness and microsurface… -
Re: FAQ: How u make dem mats? Hands-on mini-tuts for making materials and texturing
S6, didn't you see page 5? You'd definitely be able to do such a material with one mesh; since the limitation here is tb2. They kept things simple here for obvious reasons, so in some cases you have to use workarounds like that. As mentioned by EQ in the tb2 thread. -
Re: FAQ: How u make dem mats? Hands-on mini-tuts for making materials and texturing
Awesome advice! Really brought the right action to the material when light hits it. Much appreciated, man. I'm going to tweak it a bit more, but definitely in the right direction. *Removed to keep it lighter-Results below* -
Re: FAQ: How u make dem mats? Hands-on mini-tuts for making materials and texturing
To avoid derailing Adam's thread I'm moving this discussion over here. I'll tackle these one at a time. These 3 are somewhat linked. To really answer this we need to talk about image formats and bit depth, so this is going to get a bit computer sciency, but read through it. We're all better artists for knowing how our… -
Re: FAQ: How u make dem mats? Hands-on mini-tuts for making materials and texturing
Ok, I'm terrible at material definition so while I'd love to make an attempt at this, if I do I'll just go straight in and texture it to how I see fit. HOWEVER, for the sake of authenticity, how could I make this polymer material?
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