Upon reviewing the new item called “Platinum Domino Crown” from the Robux purchase page, the GIF provides the accessory with a metallic effect, giving the idea that it contains PBR texture. I decided to import the accessory to Roblox Studio and analyze its properties. The material is set as “Plastic”. In my previous bug reports regarding these items, I saw that other creators told me that you should use a new lighting technology while having Lighting.EnvironmentSpecularScale activated. However, even trying to use this method, it does not provide the metallic effect, which can mislead users expecting to include a physically based rendered texture.
As testing in Roblox Studio, in a Baseplate with modern lighting technologies and applying EnvironmentSpecularScale to 1, the accessory doesn’t provide any metallic reflection, which is misleading.
This is due to accessory being a part and having a special mesh in it, mesh part version works fine even with plastic material 128304149850143.rbxm (16.0 KB)
It is a bug because it doesn’t use SurfaceAppearence, according to what @LvieReal stated. The sample he provided should be the expected result to fit the advertisement
By chance, did you use InsertService to retrieve the accessory in Studio? InsertService always gets the SpecialMesh version of the accessory (the version used on R6 avatars); R15 uses a seperate MeshPart version and since only MeshParts support SurfaceAppearances (iirc), InsertService won’t be able to retrieve and render a version with PBR support, even if it is present in the accessory.
Of course, in an ideal world, both R6 and R15 would be able to support PBR accessories but the missing feature here would be the fact that SpecialMesh doesn’t support using SurfaceAppearances and/or miscommunication to users about where PBR accessories work/don’t work; rather than this particular accessory being bugged.
This is, of course, all assuming the R15 version isn’t bugged in itself, I haven’t got a chance to load up Studio yet to test it, and it very well could be the case.
At least for the R15 version, the item actually does appear as intended and the SurfaceAppearance loads correctly when equipped. This seems like an issue with the way accessories are imported.
No, I didn’t use it. I imported using MeshPart + applied the texture while analyzing the composure with the BTRoblox extension, which doesn’t feature SpecialMesh… Previously, it was set as Plastic. However, if you go and check out, it is now as “Metal”:
I believe that, now, the problem is fixed… The ideal is to be PBR by using SurfaceAppearence, but, I’ll probably file up a feature request soon about this.
You’re right, it wasn’t a bug and was working as intended. But someone at Roblox updated the Platinum Domino Crown earlier today and REMOVED its PBR textures, broke its thumbnail, and set its material to “Metal”… This should honestly be reverted ASAP.
