Corona PBR Shader

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It would be great if there was a way to integrate a PBR shader, or even an implementation into the standard CoronaMTL with a Metallic map slot and some way to convert the maps exported from a program like Substance Painter. There are workarounds to match the SP look with some shuffling around of different maps but it’s a pain in the arse.

Because you can texture high-poly assets in SP by using AO and Curvature maps I think a PBR implementation would be great in Corona, and I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before most renderers incorporate one. (I think MAYA 2016 added a native PBR shader)

And just to clarify: when I say PBR I mean a metallic/roughness Disney BDRF shader.

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+1

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+1, was mentionned as 1.6 feature some times ago but it’s has been overlooked

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We can already get a PBR shader using Corona and SP. Check out the results in this thread:

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I’d say it’s a workaround, so it’s not optimal. And it was meant to be a more general shader like disney’s one or alsurface shader. With metallic/roughness workflow as it’s start to be the new standard. So it would be nice to have such a shader in one of the upcoming release. But yeah, it’s not top priority.

Btw, I would not make a dedicated skin shader as planned on the roadmap. Alsurface completely suit the needs for that kind of stuff :

http://www.anderslanglands.com/alshaders/tut_skin1.html

Best of both worlds imho. Powerfull, versatile. The only thing alshader miss is the sheen parameter.

What’s more, it support cryptomatte :

http://www.anderslanglands.com/alshaders/tut_cryptomatte.html

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I wonder if metallic-roughness shader implementation for off-line renderers is free from disease that real-time renderers suffers from, where transition between metalic and non-metallic surfaces looks very ugly? If not, then why we need such inferior shader?

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What you are talking about is ralated to the texel density of the UVs of the texture used to blend metallic and non-metallic parts. And it appear also in specular/glossiness workflow, it’s just less noticeable coz the effect is reversed (black instead of white). It’s also highly dependant of the resolution, which is mostly a real-time problem, as texel density. Many offline renders use the metallic/roughness workflow with no issue so i don’t know how it could be considered “inferior”.

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It’s not a work around, this set up is by every definition a PBR shader setup. The only thing it is missing is a neat little container to put it in.

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As far as I remember the new Physical Material introduced in 2017 has a simple mode with metalness/roughness setup, I always thought it would work fine with Corona and was the reason there’s no dedicated PBR shader coming with it.

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By workaround, I meant it introduce unwanted workflow. Modern “uber” shaders (dysney, alsurface..) are good in that way. They allow to reproduce almost every materials (except hair) within one node.

I think it’s a really bad idea to rely on autodesk’s stuff.

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So if a developer goes through here, can you share your thoughts for choosing to make a dedicated skin shader over an uber shader ?

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you mean why is skin shader not part of single universal shader, or why feature X was implemented before feature Y?

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i mean why is skin shader not part of single universal shader.

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done