Material Mesh Data Blender

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Material Mesh Data Blender

In: Mesh Based Generators*/Utilities*

Complex

Description

This node is intended to make it a lot easier to add detail based on baked data. It comes with a lot of sliders to modify an input full material, based on any and all baked maps as input. Do experiment with it, as there are a lot of options.

It is useful for doing things like adding edge highlighting based on curvature or other maps, blending in some AO with the Diffuse/Basecolor, adding Specular Occlusion based on Curvature and/or AO, etc.

Parameters

Inputs

• Full Material Input (Group “Material”): Full set of material maps.
  These are modified by this node and then returned again as output.
• Ambient Occlusion: Grayscale Input
  Baked map used for internal effects and masking.
• Curvature: Grayscale Input
  Baked map used for internal effects and masking.
• Height: Grayscale Input
• Normal: Color Input
• Vertex Color: Color Input
• World Space Normal: Color Input

Parameters

• Channels
  • Toggle material channels on and off in this group, for example when using Specular/Glossiness maps instead of Metallic/Roughness. Affects the availability of the below parameters.
• Baked Maps
  • Whether or not to use the listed baked maps for calculations. Affects the availability of the below parameters.
• Diffuse AO: 0.0 - 1.0Amount of Ambient Occlusion to blend into the Diffuse.
• Diffuse Sharp Edges: 0.0 - 1.0
  Amount of the curvature map to blend into the Diffuse.
• Diffuse Color From Vertex Color: 0.0 - 1.0
  Amount of the Vertex Color bake to blend into the Diffuse.
• Diffuse Pre Lighting: 0.0 - 1.0
  Amount of (fake) pre-lighting, based on the World Space Normals.
• Diffuse Cartoon Lighting Balance: 0.0 - 1.0
  Shifts between realistic and cartoonish lighting for the Diffuse.
• Diffuse Cartoon Pre Lighting Layers: 0 - 10
  Controls the look of the cartoonish lighting calculations.
• Diffuse Cartoon Outlines: 0.0 - 1.0
  Controls the look of the cartoonish lighting calculations.
• Base Color AO: 0.0 - 1.0
  Amount of Ambient Occlusion to blend into the Basecolor.
• Base Color Sharp edges: 0.0 - 1.0
  Amount of the curvature map to blend into the Basecolor.
• Base Color From Vertex Color: 0.0 - 1.0
  Amount of the Vertex Color bake to blend into the Basecolor.
• Normal Material Intensity: 0.0 - 1.0
  Blending strength of the baked (tangent) Normalmap.
• SpecularAO: 0.0 - 1.0
  Blending strength of the AO in the Specular.
• Specular Bright Sharp Edges: 0.0 - 1.0
  Blending strength of the Curvature in the Specular.
• Specular Cartoon Outlines: 0.0 - 1.0
  Blending strength of a cartoon Specular edge-outline effect, based on the Curvature.
• Glossiness Dark Sharp Edges: 0.0 - 1.0
  Blending strength of the Curvature in the Glossiness.
• Roughness Bright Sharp Edges: 0.0 - 1.0
  Blending strength of the Curvature in the Roughness.
• Roughness Cartoon Outlines: 0.0 - 1.0
  Blending strength of a cartoon Roughness edge-outline effect, based on the Curvature.
• Metallic Bright Sharp Edges: 0.0 - 1.0
  Blending strength of the Curvature in the Metallic.
• Metallic Cartoon Outlines: 0.0 - 1.0
  Blending strength of a cartoon Metallic edge-outline effect, based on the Curvature.
• AO Materiel Intensity: 0.0 - 1.0
  Blend strength of baked map AO with Material-generated AO, what degree to combine both AO maps at.
• Height Material Intensity: 0.0 - 1.0
  Blend strength of baked map Height with Material-generated Height, what degree to combine both Heightmaps at.
• Height Material Blending Type: Reinforce, Interpolation
  Blend mode for combining both Heightmaps.

Example Images