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This page gives an overview of the Metalness Render Element.

Overview

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Column width 50% The Metalness Render Element shows areas, where a V-Ray Material, with Metalness is applied. The Metalness values are baked into an image, where black corresponds to 0, and white - to 1. The image created can be used as a metalness mask when creating PBR shaders in post-processing. UI Text Box type tip Note that values between 0 and 1 give an unrealistic metalness effect. They can be used creatively and for smooth transitions from a metal to a non-metal material on the same geometry. For more information on metalness and it's role when creating PRB shaders, visit Understanding Metalness. UI Expand title UI Path: ||Display Render Settings button|| > Render Elements tab > Metalness Section   Column width 10% 25% Column width 80% 50% Multiexcerpt include MultiExcerptName RE PageWithExcerpt Render Elements Image Removed    Column width 10% 25% Column width 5%   Column width 45%

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Column width 62% The parameters for this render element appear in the Attribute Editor under Extra V-Ray Attributes. Enabled – When enabled, the render element appears in the V-Ray Virtual Frame Buffer. Deep output – Specifies whether to include this render element in deep images. Filename suffix – The text added to the end of the rendered file, when saved as a separate file (e.g. myrender.metalness.vrimg). UI Text Box type note This render element is not supported with V-Ray GPU rendering.       Column width 5% Column width 33%

 

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