Questions tagged [material]

I notice that most photorealistic renderers have very similar material test scenes. Here are a few examples: Blender Mitsuba Vray My question is: why is this specific model / style chosen to test materials? Does it have some advantage over…

For example, Filament's documentation at https://google.github.io/filament/Filament.md.html uses the term "dielectrics" when contrasting nonconductors to conductors, which it calls "metallics". And here on stackexchange,…

I am a little bit confused about the various flavors of material layering in both online and offline rendering. I had naively assumed (after using the Mix Shader in Cycles and a few minutes in Substance Painter) that material layering was just a…