It would improve a lot the realism if we could add an imperfection map to the materials
Would vote a hundred times for this if possible :).
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It can be done by working with good maps
Base material
Surface Imperfections 01
Surface Imperfetions 02
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You got this result with the roughness map right?
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yes. with a good grayscale map + Normal map
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Yeah I do this too, but if we could be able to add a Imperfection map + normal + Specular + Roughness
It would increase the realism
but consider that when it comes to ARCVIZ, in 98% of cases, scenes are created with new materials, not worn. of course the imperfection that you ask for gives an even more intense realism… but in Corona (which I use together with D5) you don’t have an imperfection channel but you have various options that allow you to obtain more complex materials. This is missing now in D5, and I hope it will be implemented in the future. Today we cannot make good semi-transparent glasses, or SSS materials… these are (in my opinion) the priorities. But anyway I support your request.
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Great, i think every improvment is welcome, i’m hopping D5 gets more and more closer to Corona
this is great to add. in unreal engine you can place a map for imperfection aside for the reflection or specular. hopefully the real-time render can match the unreal engine for the reflection and imperfection.
And I would like to be able to see UV mapping of individual maps. normal maps, specular, bump AO etc.
How exactly is that done if I may ask?
So one hypothetical workflow would be to grayscale my current normal map in Photoshop, then add it to the roughness channel?
NO no.
you don’t have to turn a normal map into grayscale. You have to have a grayscale map, a good one, to load into the ruoghness channel.
For these micro grooves I don’t use a normal map, you might get the power of the normal map wrong and have the wrong result.