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This material is a specialized shader to easily create rendering of cars. Most cars are painted with a metallic paint that has specular flakes in a coat over a base surface.  Note that the same look can also be achieved using the 3Delight Principled shader alongside the Flake 3D Texture but this Material frees the artist from cumbersome shading network manipulations.

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Roughness Balance


Metallic



Flakes

Flakes are little metallic particles floating inside the coating. They give the sparkly look to most car paints. This section controls the characteristics of these flakes.


Weight


Density

Sets the fraction of the surface on which flakes are visible. A density of 0.5 means that a flakes cover half of the surface.


Color

The colour of each flake.


Roughness

The roughness of each flake.


Scale

The scale of each flake. Note that smaller scales will necessitate higher Shading Samples.


Layers


Randomness

How is random is the orientation of flakes. A value of 0 means that all flakes are oriented as the surface normal. A value of 1 means totally random directions.



Coating

Coating is an important part of a car paint as it affects the overall look in three main aspects:

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How "shiny" is the coating. A value of 1 means a very shiny coating.

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Flakes

Flakes are little metallic particles floating inside the coating. They give the sparkly look to most car paints. This section controls the characteristics of these flakes.

Color

The colour of each flake.

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Roughness

The roughness of each flake.

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Scale

The scale of each flake. Note that smaller scales will necessitate higher Shading Samples.

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Density

Sets the fraction of the surface on which flakes are visible. A density of 0.5 means that a flakes cover half of the surface. 

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Randomness

How is random is the orientation of flakes. A value of 0 means that all flakes are oriented as the surface normal. A value of 1 means totally random directions.

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Thin Film


Thickness

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IOR

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Normal Map / Bump

Include Page
Bump / Normal / Displacement Map - EXCERPT
Bump / Normal / Displacement Map - EXCERPT


Geometry

Occlusion Distance

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