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How to use a PBR material in Cyberpunk |
Published: Jun 29 2022 by manavortex
Last documented edit: Jun 29 by manavortex
This guide will teach you how to use a textured (also called PBR, which is a subtype of textured and will work) material in Cyberpunk. It is a part of . — if you are missing information, check the parent page.
You have a CMaterialInstance that can use your textured material.
If you don't have one yet, follow the steps under ., or skip to #finding-example-material-configurations and copy the entire material.
The default textured material in Cyberpunk can be found under
engine\materials\metal_base.remt
By setting it as the baseMaterial, you're telling your item to load anything you configure under the values array.
{% hint style="info" %}
metal_base's full properties are documented under textured-material-properties.md.
For a full list with explanations, see configuring-materials
{% endhint %}
Some of the most common properties for metal_base are:
| Name | Type | Description |
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| BaseColor | Texture | The base texture of your item |
| BaseColorScale | Vector4 / Color | If you re-select it after setting the name, Wolvenkit will show you a colour editor. This tint will be applied over your BaseColor for easy creation of variants! |
| Metalness | Texture | How metallic/shiny your material is |
| Roughness | Texture | How shiny/rough your material is |
| Normal | Texture | Path to your normal (bump) map texture |
| AlphaThreshold | Scalar (number) | Transparency threshold. Only works if the material IsMasked |
| Emissive | Texture | Texture for glow (with transparency andIsMasked or black/white, you can control which parts of the item glow) |
| EmissiveEV | Scalar (number) | Brightness of the glow. 3 is a good neon lamp, 6 might cause loss of vision, 12 will kill vampires immediately |
| EmissiveColor | Color | What it says. This defaults to white. |
| LayerTile | Scalar (number) | Seamless tiling factor |
Tough luck, this is the only textured shader we have. Time to get converting :)
Search for metal_base in your asset browser:
engine\materials\metal_base.remt
Right-click on the entry, and select "find files using this". That will get you every base item with a textured material.
With what you now know, you can dig through their material instances and find example parameters.
