A watch

Using the latest preview

rendering, you can see diagonal streaks appearing on the surface, which should be a BUG

Wow! That stones!

perfect!!! love it !!! :slight_smile: both, the Render and the “AO” picture

(have you skattered the stones by hand or automatically somehow?)

Component spray plugins can achieve this placement

Great!!! Nice Mood. The bug artefacts looks like a carbon material. :wink:

I wished Enscape would support mixed materials, it could be a nice tool for product design too. For example I miss metallic effects (mix of diffuse, metal and clear coat).

Clear coat is available in the latest preview

Now I need to mix diffuse and metal only. A good car paint is a diffuse color with some metal effect.

In fact, I always hope that ENS team can develop some advanced materials with good adjustment

I think there’s a misunderstanding. A car paint is a mixture of a rough metal base layer and a glossy coating, which is exactly what clear coat does. The settings describe the base layer as the coating is always the same in case of Enscape’s clear coat. You can “mix diffuse and metal” by setting the metal value to 0.5, but such a material does not exist in reality. Also, there is no such thing as “a diffuse” material. There exist only dielectrics and metals (and semiconductors, but we ignore those). Dielectrics have a diffuse component, regardless of their roughness that describes their specular response.

@tas_1985 Great image :slight_smile:

@Thomas_Willberger A metallic car paint is a dielectric plastic paint with added metallic particles, above a clear coat. The relation between metallic particles and plastic lacquer determinate the metallic look. For example some car manufacture sell cars with a very light metallic part only and this paint looks more like a pearl effect than metal. So, it is possible to mix diffuse dielectric and metal at the real world. Diffuse is the classic name for the new name “Albedo” only. For example at V-Ray I use a mix of three layers - fresnel reflection, metallic reflection and diffuse - to create metallic and pearl materials.

Here an example of a mix of diffuse and metallic, a paint with less metal particles - around the clear bluish reflection at the front edge is smooth cold metallic effect. The bright white at the door is most diffuse effect only, since in reflection direction is a dark grey wall only.

I will post some Enscape metallic tests at my old metallic test thread.


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In fact, I’m looking forward to the replacement mapping feature rather than the mixed textures @Thomas Schander