PBR: Introduction

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Software:Blender 2.78 ·
Difficulty:Intermediate

Physically Based Material Creation

Physically based is the new standard for creating materials. Instead of relying on diffuse and specular components separately, PBR shaders work with roughness and real reflections. To create most any opaque material, you'll just need to adjust four settings:

Roughness
Fresnel
Metalness
Displacement

In these lessons, we'll dive into what each of those settings is for and how to set up your own PBR shader using Cycles. Then, you'll be able to spend less time tweaking and more time creating awesome textures!

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Is creating your own PBR shader irrelevant now with the Principled Shader in 2.79?

1 answer · asked October 17, 2018 4:30pm

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1 answer · asked October 17, 2018 4:30pm

Is creating your own PBR shader irrelevant now with the Principled Shader in 2.79?

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The PBR Shader tutorial was very good and I liked that it was related to Substance Painter. Two questions: 1. In th...

1 answer · asked March 19, 2017 12:43pm

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bmf2
1 answer · asked March 19, 2017 12:43pm

The PBR Shader tutorial was very good and I liked that it was related to Substance Painter. Two questions: 1. In th...

The PBR Shader tutorial was very good and I liked that it was related to Substance Painter. Two questions: 1. In the last PBR video, reference was made with regard to example files that could be used to test the PBR shader. Specifically the painted metal was used and reference was made to at least leather example being included in the source file folder. However I don't believe they were included in the PBR source file folder. Was the reference to those example files an error in the video or were they omitted accidentally? 2. Substance Painter also typically produces an AO file. Where would that be inserted in the PBR Shader for best results? Thanks.

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