PxrFlakes
- Former user (Deleted)
- Luke Graaff
Car Paint with flakes and coating.
Produces a bumped normal that simulates flake-like results in specular or reflective material effects. Connecting this to a the Bump Normal parameter of PxrSurface can create metallic fleck paint.
Input Parameters
Input Normal
Connect your bump pattern here if you wish to add flakes on top of it. Ignored if not connected.
Flake Randomness
This increases the distribution of flake normals, or their deviation from the base normal.
 0.0 |  0.1 |  0.2 |  0.4 |  0.8 |
Flake Frequency
Changes the global size of the metal flake features.
 10 |  20 |  40 |  80 |
Flake Density
Changes the number of metal flakes for a given area. Valid between 0 (no flakes) and 1 (all flakes).
 0.125 |  0.25 |  0.5 |  1.0 |
Flake Size
Changes the size of metal flakes. Pushing the value above one will create something akin to galvanized metal.
 0.25 |  0.5 |  1.0 |  2.0 |
Octaves
Number of octaves of noise to calculate flakes. Most of the time, 1 is enough.
 1 |  2 |  3 |
Jitter
Jitters the flake's position. 0.0 gives a grid-like organisation and 1.0 looks very random.
Validate Normals
Make sure flakes normals are always in the same hemisphere as the original normal.
Manifold
The manifold over which to apply the flakes.
The default (when there is no connected manifold) is P in object space. This will work fine if your object is not deforming.
If your object is deforming :
Add a
__Prefprimvar to your geometry in its un-deformed state.Create a PxrManifold3D node and connect it to the PxrFlakes node.
In the manifold's Pref field enter:
__PrefIn the manifold's Coordinate System field enter:
object
Output Parameters
resultN
The bumped normal.
resultA
The flakes' mask. This is a black and white mask that may allow you to tint flakes or change their roughness, for example.