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Brushed Metal Material
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Brushed Metal Material - creates a Truelight
Brushed Metal Material. Using the Brushed Metal
Material all types of metal surfaces can be simulated.
Diffuse Color - sets the shader`s diffuse
reflection color. This is the color the shader will
adopt, when the light reflection of the surface
is spread to a brought range of directions.
Specular Color - sets the shader`s color for
specular reflection.
Specular reflection behavior is described by the
law of reflection which states that the direction
of incoming light (the incident ray), and the
direction of outgoing light reflected (the
reflected ray) make the same angle with
respect to the surface normal, thus the angle of
incidence equals the angle of reflection.
Roughness U/V - the Roughness parameter
defines the amount of diffuse reflection and, its
complement specular reflection. The higher the
roughness value, the more diffuse reflection
will be rendered.
On metallic surfaces the roughness can vary
against the surface direction. Especially when
the surface is finished.
Due to this the roughness intensity can be
separately set in U and V direction.
Metal Type - The Metal Type attribute allows
you to choose between a wide range of metal
material presets, if you wish to.
Brush Plane - sets the brush direction. To make the brush structure visible Bump Texture ->
Bump Structure must be activated.
XY - sets the line-structure projection plane to XY
XZ - sets the line-structure projection plane to XZ
YZ - sets the line-structure projection plane to YZ
Radial XY - sets the radial-structure projection plane to XY
Radial XZ - sets the radial-structure projection plane to XZ
Radial YZ - sets the radial-structure projection plane to YZ
Brush Center - sets the brush projection center. To center the Projection pivot automatically,
select an object and press "Get Center". Then the selected object`s center will be used as
projection pivot.
Reflectivity - sets the Brushed Metal Material`s reflective intensity.
Color Texture
Use Texture - loads an image texture for the diffuse color channel. The image
will be used as a pattern on the surfaces. Read MaterialEditor -> Textures
for texture placement.