Gold Clockwork Headphones and Clockwork’s Golden Shades are a pair of matching accessories that are gold versions of the classic Clockwork’s Headphones and Clockwork’s Shades set. Being that they are matching recolors in a series, their appearances should be consistent with one another across all experiences on Roblox. However, due to the way the way the accessories are set up, in certain experiences they do not look visually consistent.
Gold Clockwork Headphones and Clockwork’s Golden Shades both have a shiny, metallic look in R15 experiences. This is because both items use PBR technology. However, the way that each item is set up to take advantage of PBR is different, meaning they behave differently from one another between R6 and R15 experiences.
Gold Clockwork Headphones uses SurfaceAppearance with a Roughness and Metalness map in order to enable PBR. Since SurfaceAppearance only functions on MeshPart based accessories, Gold Clockwork Headphones’ PBR texture only functions in R15.
However, unlike the headphones, Clockwork’s Golden Shades does not use SurfaceAppearance, instead opting to use the Metal material on the handle. This applies to both the MeshPart and SpecialMesh versions of the accessory, meaning that it’s PBR texture functions in both R6 and R15.
The difference in handling of PBR between the two items means that in certain experiences using R6, the headphones and shades have a noticable difference in appearance, and do not match each other like they should. I took a screenshot in my experience that forces R6 to show how significant the difference in appearance can be.
Either Gold Clockwork Headphones or Clockwork’s Golden Shades should be updated to use the same way of enabling PBR so that they look consistent and match each other across all experiences. There’s a good argument for either one, giving the Metal material to the headphones would enable it’s metallic look to work across all experiences; giving the shades SurfaceAppearance and a matching metalness / roughness map would enable them to have the same slightly scratchy roughness map that the headphones have. Either way, updating one of these items to behave consistently with the other would be much appreciated.
Expected behavior
As a set of matching items, Gold Clockwork Headphones and Clockwork’s Golden Shades should be visually consistent across all experiences on Roblox.
