Hello all! I’m running into an issue where I apply our company logo in white to a metallic surface and regardless of lighting, it looks very dark. Normally, I would fake it with an emission but can’t do this with decals. I bumped the multiplier up but it doesn’t change and in fact, starts turning bl…

There’s a “self illumination” button (sorry I don’t have Rhino open right now). It should make the decal lighter but also you might not like that result. And my next solution becomes pretty involving but you can create a custom material. Your logo can mask out the “metalness”. I find in certain sit…

Hi @keithscadservices thank you so much for the advice. I can’t seem to find a solution for self illumination for the decal. For context, I created a metal material which gives you limited editing to the material (only roughness) and applied it to object A. I added a decal to Object A and that decal…

this is a limitation with metallic (and glass) objects at the moment. the hack/workaround, is to split the surface where the decal lies and assign it a non metallic material. (like plastic) then apply the decal over it. we are hoping to have material control in decals at some point, but that point…

You know… I looked for the “self illumination” and couldn’t find it for the life of me. I wonder if that setting got removed. Maybe it was R7 only? I whipped this file up quick. I don’t know exactly what you are doing so the texture mapping might be way out to lunch. The texture mapping can get fai…

Thank you @theoutside , I’ll give this a shot if @keithscadservices Opt 2 (attached) recommendation doesn’t work. This is kind of what I was looking for but will test out as the shape is a little complicated. The logo doesn’t appear to be affected by the environment which I what was going for. Appre…

Decals are very dark and hard to read

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scottd (Scott Davidson) March 15, 2026, 8:08am 8

We have this working in the Rhino WIP version: Decal gets covered by metal material - #6 by scottd

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Decals are very dark and hard to read

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