How to make good looking gold color?

[leavesfed]

my partner makes these golden models on blender and I’m trying to get a similar color inside of roblox studio. I know I can just change the material to metal and try finding a golden color or increase reflectance, but is there anything else I can do?

[KingAlijahforever (TheDevKing)]

Wazzupp @leavesfed !

Apologies for not responding sooner! – I saw it on my break, but my shift had started so I had to go D:

Are you looking for that gold look like this?

Or like these?

The first version is done using a pbr gold texture I have in my pack, the second is done using robloxs built in glass / plastic material :")

But the thing is, robloxs glass material alone is quite vauge to say the least – so for that method I actually duplicated the item twice an set the outer layer to 0.09 transparency, an also uitlized the reflectancy property of them.

And the inner to 0 but a milimiter smaller than the outer shell I guess you can call it? – essentially its build looks like so;

Practically a fake coat!

This is what the flater version looks like;

SORRY FOR DA RANT! – HOPFULLY THIS HELPS :"D

[Yarik_superpro (The_GrandOptimizer)]

You can bake it and use surface appearance.
This will also let you add tiny details if nessesary
I’d avoid using Roblox materials for such kinds of models because it’s almost impossible to unwrap them for material to be continuous.
As since Roblox materials are just flat textures applied based on length
So if there is any disjoint in your UV, it won’t look tileable.

[Ionypex23]

SurfaceAppearance is definitely the way to go if you want it to look decent. Just make sure your metalness and roughness maps are actually high quality, otherwise the PBR won’t save a bad texture. If the lighting in your scene is flat, even the best textures will just look like yellow plastic.

[leavesfed]

Absolutely lovely. Thank you very much