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While most of us associate PBR only with mirrors and shiny metals, there is a lot more to it since all surfaces benefit from it. The top pic here shows the room with the old standard (blinn phong) textures and materials taken using the FS 6.6.17 viewer, while the bottom pic shows the same room with all pbr textures taken using the FS 7.1.11 viewer. Note that you can add both texture sets to a surface so that any viewer can see something. Also note that there is a reflection probe filling this room that prevents the blue light outside from seeping in (a current known bug being investigated).
Saturation, lighting, and detail are significantly improved across the board when all surfaces are pbr, which is what Physically Based Rendering was designed to do: to more accurately capture the interplay of light on various surfaces. For those wondering about how performance was affected, these were taken using my 8 year old desktop that has a GTX 1070 graphics card. I was at 40 fps on ultra graphics, but you don't need to set the graphics that high to get this look. That's because the new viewer is more efficient since it uses more of your computer's available resources.
Saturation, lighting, and detail are significantly improved across the board when all surfaces are pbr, which is what Physically Based Rendering was designed to do: to more accurately capture the interplay of light on various surfaces. For those wondering about how performance was affected, these were taken using my 8 year old desktop that has a GTX 1070 graphics card. I was at 40 fps on ultra graphics, but you don't need to set the graphics that high to get this look. That's because the new viewer is more efficient since it uses more of your computer's available resources.
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I can get enough of this look shown here, even with all of the shaders turned off and PBR settings at minimum. For shinier things I do need to set PBR a bit higher than minimum, but it doesn't affect my FPS too much, unless I have shadows on, a high draw distance (past 128m) and a sim is too crowded with avatars and some NPC's. I'm still rocking a GTX 1050 laptop with 4 GB of VRAM, and 32 GB of RAM.
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Surfaces can look shiny, matte, or anywhere in between, depending on roughness and metallic settings. Giving more depth to the scene. Normal maps in PBR create the illusion of depth and texture without adding extra polygons. So that will help with LOD too. I chose to focus on PBR metals for jewelry first because, for jewelry, the interplay of light on metallic surfaces is critical. Jewelry's visual appeal largely comes from its shine, reflections, and intricate details, which PBR captures far better than traditional Blinn-Phong shading.
By prioritizing metals, I wanted to showcase what PBR does best in my specific use case—bringing realism and life to gold, silver, and other metallic finishes.
I am playing with Diamonds right now and I have a GLTF texture for it and it looks okay but Fred showed me how using trans, and glow settings the diamond looks realistic without the GLTF created. I tried this morning and I like the look without the texture so as with any texture creating there is fine tuning to get just how you like it. When I would create my jewelry and apply the textures and see that plastic look it took all the fun out of it. With PBR and shinier metals the jewelry is stunning. Now to perfect my diamonds, or borrow @Ferdzee's Nice work on your PBR @Luna!
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By prioritizing metals, I wanted to showcase what PBR does best in my specific use case—bringing realism and life to gold, silver, and other metallic finishes.
I am playing with Diamonds right now and I have a GLTF texture for it and it looks okay but Fred showed me how using trans, and glow settings the diamond looks realistic without the GLTF created. I tried this morning and I like the look without the texture so as with any texture creating there is fine tuning to get just how you like it. When I would create my jewelry and apply the textures and see that plastic look it took all the fun out of it. With PBR and shinier metals the jewelry is stunning. Now to perfect my diamonds, or borrow @Ferdzee's Nice work on your PBR @Luna!
Thanks Marianna! Playing with the glass/diamond look is fun :-) I used my basic silver pbr texture with high reflectivity and some transparency to achieve the effect on a statue.
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