So I recently made this Shinobi Katana for the purpose of getting better at using "metalness" maps. I tried giving the hamon a slightly different level than the rest of the blade and it seems to stand out more. Was wondering what people here have to say about it! I also have it on sketchfab for full inspect:…
This may have been what I was doing wrong. Take a look at the sketchfab again ( I updated it with a new and simplified mostly B-W metalness map ) then moved the difference in Hamon detail to the Roughness/Gloss map. Interestingly, I think the Golden part of the metal actually improved more from this. The texture…
Oh, you can actually do this in the sketchfab model inspector, a neet little feature that site has. Bottom right it looks like 3 planes stacked on top of each other, then you can check each map individually. https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/golden-shinobi-katana-gameready-484fe1aa92af463abbe2e9d1fec5e71f That might be what…