Matte and Metallic

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  1. Dave Brown

    Dave Brown New Member

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    Is it possible to have a metallic paint finish alongside a carbon matte finish on the same car ?
     
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    Racinglegend1234 AMS2 wiki founder AMS2 Club Member

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    How does a carbon matte finish look like? sounds like they are working against each other
     
  3. Dave Brown

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    The idea been a silver metallic on wings / bonnet and a carbon matte finish to the rest
     
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    Racinglegend1234 AMS2 wiki founder AMS2 Club Member

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    I think that’s possible use fresnel and spec with the matte preset
     
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    robillard3381 Well-Known Member Staff Member AMS2 Club Member

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    Currently it's not possible to have both carbon fiber and metallic paint on a same bodywork. Maybe later, but it will require significant work on the shaders
     
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    Racinglegend1234 AMS2 wiki founder AMS2 Club Member

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    Can’t you set a layer as carbon fiber and then play around with the alpha layers?
     
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    robillard3381 Well-Known Member Staff Member AMS2 Club Member

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    Visible carbon and metallic paint work the same way with a black alpha channel. And the material used is either carbon or metallic paint, the two cannot be combined at the moment.
     
  8. Dave Brown

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    Thank you for your reply :)
     
  9. Discpad

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    Sorry I did not see you wanted a Matte Carbon finish
     

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    Is this more the look you are trying to get? ss062838.jpg
     
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    Again my apologizes. These tired old eyes do not read very good any more. I will look at a metallic finish with matte carbon and see what I can find out.
     
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    Is this more like what you need. This is a silver metallic. ss084529.jpg
     
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    Is this last example based on a Metallic base livery? How you did it?
    The question with metallic+matt/dull was asked already in the past.
    AMS2 - User Livery Overrides
     
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    Yes it is a base silver metallic with a slightly matte carbon fiber black. If you copy the carbon layer to the alpha channel and make the carbon white it will reduce the reflection. Then convert to DDS using DXT5. No spec or fresnel files are used. It works with any metallic color. I hope this will help anyone who needs it. It is the best I can come up with. Note that images in the showroom appear different than they do in the game so do not base the final look on the showroom images if you try this.
     
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