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Metallic

'Metallic' is a PBR concept that controls how 'metallic' the surface looks. Metallic surfaces are less diffuse and more reflective of the incoming light.

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Only available when using the realistic lighting mode.

General Settings​

Metallic Map​

Metallic map directly controls the metalness of the material.

  • The metallic map is an unpacked grayscale map.
  • Black = no metallic, white = full metallic.
  • Uses UV0.
  • Only the 'red' channel is used, all other channels will do nothing.
  • Defaults to white (full metallic) when not set.
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The map works in tandem with the metallic slider. The slider acts as a scale that determines the 'max' value of this metallic map. So if you have a metallic map, you likely want to set the metallic slider to 1.

Metallic Slider​

Multiplies the value of the metallic map, acting as a 'max' value. If the metallic map is fully metallic, this slider will determine the max value of that metalness.

  • 0 = no metallic
  • 1 = full metallic.
note

If you have a metallic map, you'll want to set this to 1 as this value is multiplied by the metallic map!