Clear coat to dark and metallic

Enscape Issues
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Hi,

my impression is that the clear coat material could get some improvement. It looks like the clear coat color is much darker and to metallic (at 0% metallic) than expected. Here a comparison of a standard plastic and a clear coat plastic. It could be useful if the clear coat material allow to start with a standard plastic look and adjust it up to a strong metallic effect. At the moment there is a gap between both materials.

Options to control the clear coat roughness and intensity could be very useful too.

-Micha

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Hi @Micha ,

in the current preview clear coat is not effected properly by sunlight… yet. So either in the next preview or 2.5 release, whichever happens first, it should be significantly improved.

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Hey Sean,

How do we access this shader from within Revit?

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@Sean_Farrell The test was done without sun in a HDRI environment only.

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@Pieter_2 The keywords in revit are clearcoat and carpaint.

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We adjusted the metal base layer of the clear coat to better resemble the look of a normal metal without coating, thanks.

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Sean, are you saying that adding the word clearcoat to the material name triggers a clearcoat in Enscape?

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Yes, exactly. :slight_smile: If you’re using Revit, also check out the dedicated material article here:

https://enscape3d.com/community/blog/knowledgebase/revit-material-parameters/

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Yeah Ive read that article but don’t see where it says clearcoat in the material name triggers the feature. You should consider adding that info.

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I tried adding the word clearcoat to a PBR Revit material for terrazzo to see what effect it would have… I couldn’t see any effect.

Does it matter where in the material name the word “clearcoat” needs to be?