PBR Materials new in Rhino WIP

scottd · September 10, 2021, 7:38pm

New in Rhino WIP is support for industry standard Physically based rendering (PBR) materials. PBR is becoming a standard material format across many platforms.

PBR materials tend to give very realistic representations of complex materials by layer multiple textures on various properties in a material.

We are very excited to release the new PBR materials in both the:
Download Rhino WIP (Work-In-Progress) for Windows…
Download Rhino WIP (Work-In-Progress) for Mac…

To learn how to get started with PBR materials see the PBR WIP Basic Documentation

scottd · December 12, 2019, 11:24pm

anika.boeller · December 30, 2019, 11:21am

Great! works for raytraced/cycles only or also in rhino renderer?

wim · January 2, 2020, 10:43am

Hi Anika - In Rhino 7 (i.e. the current WIP), the renderer uses the same engine as what the Raytraced display mode uses.
-wim

Alan_Farkas · January 28, 2020, 6:34am

Really excited about this. Tried it once, and worked great. Seemed I needed to manually specify the files for each slot, even tho the Rhino 7 info says Rhino can try to import a folder of materials and auto-place them in the slots.

How do I get it to do this?

wim · January 28, 2020, 8:11am

Hi Alan - the naming of the files needs to be right for that to work.
Can you provide the source of the materials that you are using and a list of the file names?
-wim

Alan_Farkas · January 28, 2020, 2:22pm

They’re in a folder, because as I’m learning, I need to also download each slot-image individually, too. Got this from CC0textures.com but also did some from Textures.com

Alan_Farkas · January 28, 2020, 2:35pm

Sure, here’s the one from Texures.com

https://www.textures.com/download/3dscans0586/137025

Alan_Farkas · January 28, 2020, 4:53pm

Sure, here’s the one from Texures.com

https://www.textures.com/download/3dscans0586/137025

And here’s the one rom CC0Textures.com

https://www.textures.com/download/3dscans0586/137025

Also wondering what filetypes work as “Material Library” since they’re cut-off when I try to see the drop-down options in the file explorer window that pops up when I try to open one.

Holo · February 26, 2020, 9:48am

Hi guys, the material panel isn’t working on my latest WIP.
It works for the other materials, just not for PBR. I see a flicker when I mouse over though.

wim · February 26, 2020, 10:40am

Hey Jørgen - I think that the developers will want some more details on this…
-wim

Ryan656 · February 26, 2020, 3:36pm

Playing with the PBR materials in WIP, I’m not seeing individual slots to drop the different types of textures - displacement, normal etc, am I missing something?
only the color channel has the option. all the others have a check box but nothing else.
example: if I have a bump map (normal) where do I put it?

I watched the latest tutorial ( I believe) with the toy gun but no actual demonstration of grabbing the files from the texture site and setting up the materials in rhino.

Ryan656 · February 26, 2020, 3:40pm

Oh what the hell. I slid the menu bar over and waalaa, theres the rest of the options… lol wow I need some coffee

ChrisH1 · October 6, 2020, 4:57am

I tried the “Create Physically Based material from texture files” option. Using a Substance SBSAR file and the Thea Substance converter program gives me two outputs, one for Thea materials and a folder containing separate image files.I used these file to create the PBR material for use in Rhino. All I had to do was select all of the images in the folder at one time, follow the prompts and it worked.

Very nice.

robinp · December 4, 2020, 2:48pm

Sorry, and I hate myself for this. But it is Voilà. There is just something about people getting this one wrong that really grates for me. Maybe it is living with a French all around me.

nathanletwory · December 12, 2020, 1:07pm

A post was split to a new topic: Specularity / F0 in Physically Based material

scottd · January 18, 2021, 11:38pm

We have released a new plugin for Substance Material Imports in Rhino 7:

julian_todorov · March 5, 2021, 1:35pm

Hi Scott, im using Rhino 7 since some days, i used to work with the SubD tools in WIP and im glad you guys made it ;-) anyway I struggle at the moment with this PBR materials, i made everything like in your youtube channel Kyle Houchens or Phil Cook, but there is no realy bump or displacement occuring and it doesnt metter if i try with the PBR materials or with the Substance (sbsar) everything is as flat as the globe no idea what I^m doing wrong.
You can see the pics and hopefully help
thx in advance

nathanletwory · March 5, 2021, 1:37pm

Set maximum edge length to say 1.0, or something smaller. Smaller numbers will give you more geometry.

I’d set maximum aspect ratio to 1.0

julian_todorov · March 5, 2021, 1:41pm

noooo i just did it and nothing happens, still the same …