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#288

Poly Haven, credits to @IceTheOneAndOnly.

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#289

So Crazed, got plenty of websites:

I use all of these to make PBR materials

https://www.cgbookcase.com/

https://www.textures.com/browse/pbr-materials/114558

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#290

Obsessed with this! Great update!

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#291

There’s a team create bug where it doesn’t replicate across studio sessions.

This is really important for the game I’m working on with my team. We need to use this feature to achieve the fidelity we were aiming for.

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#292

QUESTION!
Hey! I’ve tried this and its really good https://gyazo.com/f8568b4a82f0118cd39e0f02f974357e
Problem is when I leave and save studio and come back The MaterialVariant is all gone and I have to redo it. Why does this happen? is it because it’s a beta feature or do I need to save it in someway?

#293

It doesn’t work in team create, no idea why

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#294

Roblox should make it where the pbr materials pop out like this

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like it actually is 3D instead of being flat, that’d be amazing tbh

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#295

There would be a slider for it too and you can slide it to how much it would pop out

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#296

That’s what PBR is though, it makes flat objects look 3D. Also can’t you just get a MeshPart and put SurfaceAppearence or a Texture over it? Sorry if I sound stupid, I don’t know much about building.

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#297

Unreal engine can do 3D pbr with actual mesh looking stuff popping out without editing the mesh i think it would be amazing if roblox did the same

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#298

I could be wrong though that definitely is what pbr is but they can imrpove it instead of having it like an illusion yk? it can be a slider for how much it can pop out possibly

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#299

What you’re talking about is called Parallax Occlusion Mapping, or Tessellation. It’s relatively expensive to render especially at a large scale.

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#300

Exactly, if roblox made this possible that would be insane

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#301

On mobile you wouldn’t be able to play on older devices because of lag, thats one of the annoying considerations roblox has to go through

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#302

They could make it where it won’t show for phones it could just be normal pbr possibly

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#303

Robloxes renderer is almost identical across devices, it would introduce so many bugs to split the renderers across devices (assuming engineers would have to work on two renderers)

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#304

Maybe they could make it where you have to have your graphics all the way up for it to show then? i just think Parallax Occlusion Mapping would look amazing in games i’m sure they could make it possible

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#305

Even if they don’t then it’s okay.

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#306

@LucidPolygon
Roblox wouldn’t render tessellation shaders for mobile since it’s too performance heavy. I doubt the Play Store or Apple App store has any games that have tessellation or POM shaders.

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#307

I mean only for computers no mobile devices would use the feature

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