The PBR metallic material

PBR material is a standard for every realtime application. NDunes allows to load PBR materials via its PBR panel.

The PBR material panel

The PBR model

The PBR shading model uses three basic inputs:

Albedo: the material base color.
Roughness: how much the material is rough versus glossy.
Metalness: is it a dielectric material or a metallic material. Usually 0 or 1.

Note:

Because the metallic materials are heavily relying on the reflections, a reflection probe or SSR is recommanded when using them.

In addition to the three main channels, we can find two others:

AO: the ambient occlusion used to lower the lighting in the objects creases.
Bump: the bump map affects the surface normal of the geometry at the shaded fragment.
Mask: a mask used to hide some parts of the geometry. For the mask to be used, the masked / double sided option must be activated and an alpha threshold must be set.

Note:

The PBR metallic can't be used to render transparency nor plants with back diffuse and translucency.