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Physical Material color and roughness

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Physical Material color and roughness

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- [Instructor] Just as the 3ds Max photometric lights are a physical simulation of how light works in the real world. The physical material is a simulation of the surface properties of objects. And the physical material fits into a physically based rendering workflow. And it's basically render agnostic it will look almost exactly the same in any physically based renderer. Before we work on building materials I recommend that we hide these material samples in the material map browser. The rendering of these samples can actually be problematic, the samples rendering is only single threaded and sometimes samples rendering is re-triggered when it shouldn't be. And it can cause problems it can actually slowdown our interactivity in the material editor. So for performance reasons it's a good idea to turn off the rendering of these samples. And there are numerous ways to do this, one is to disable the little teapot icon…

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