Textures

[pks1414]

Am I right in thinking that with Blender and MSFS a number of texture Maps can be created to apply to one 3d object. I have been building stuff for xplane and I know with that you could only have one map. So the map I have attached for xplane could be split into different parts?

 

[Vitus]

yes

 

[pks1414]

Thank you, that's good, just need to figure out what goes where now in the MSFS texture slots. Do you know if Bill Womacks procedure for applying AO Bakes still applies, once again I know in Xplane I had to apply the AO to the actual map

 

[Vitus]

The baking of your AO map is still the same. But the composition of the metallic map is different for MSFS.
R - AO
G - Roughness
B - Metallic

So make sure to configure your texture output in whatever program you use to create your PBR materials. In case you use Substance, I uploaded a preset in the resource section that creates ready-to-use textures.

 

[pks1414]

I use photoshop and I have used materialize to create the various textures for PBR. To be honest I am having trouble getting my head around the the texture slots for MSFS, what goes where etc

 

[YohanNaz]

The baking of your AO map is still the same. But the composition of the metallic map is different for MSFS.
R - AO
G - Roughness
B - Metallic

So make sure to configure your texture output in whatever program you use to create your PBR materials. In case you use Substance, I uploaded a preset in the resource section that creates ready-to-use textures.

I use photoshop and I have used materialize to create the various textures for PBR. To be honest I am having trouble getting my head around the the texture slots for MSFS, what goes where etc

The metallic map is as Vitus describes above; red, green, blue, channels packed with AO, Roughness, and Metallic respectively. The Albedo, Metallic, and Normal are part of the PBR shader technique MSFS uses for the Standard shader.

Materialize has the ability to pack map channels so you can basically let Materialize do all the work. Also, MSFS uses DirectX Normal maps.

 

[pks1414]

Thanks for all the responses, but I'm being a bit thick here. Is the smoothness map in materialize their version of roughness? and is there anywhere that spells out for dummies like me what all the material slots are for in the MSFS drop down in Blender, that just confuses me, is it covered anywhere in the SDK manual

 

[pks1414]

I've applied all of the textures after splitting the building into separate parts. walls, roof etc. each of these have had their own texture map applied. I would like to apply Ambient Occlusion as per the tutorial by Bill Womack. Looking at that though there is only the one UVmap (albeit a colour grid) showing in the UV unwrap side and on the building, however all of the constituent faces of the building are showing on the Unwrap map and when the AO bake is done it gets applied to those parts. I can't do that because I have various maps? I am assuming I have done something wrong here and I cannot use that single bake method, or is there a way to select all the faces despite having different names? Materialize has actually produced the various maps including AO but I'm now confused which wat to approach this now.
Any help on this will be really appreciated, once I know what I'm doing life will be easier

Thanks

 

[pks1414]

Sorry I am being stupid here, I have used my one texture and materialize to create the various textures (attached) but I just cannot get my head around how the individual maps get placed into the individual RGB channels.

 

[YohanNaz]

MSFS materials drop down in Blender.. most objects will use Standard and when necessary the Glass but most will use Standard.

In Materialize, upper right corner there's saving options and property map. R G B under property map is where you assign your custom packed channels like in screenshot below. Use the Diffuse map for your albedo, flip Normal Y, and for the msfs metalic map pack the channels like in the attached image. Click save Property Map for the single packed map and save project for all the default maps. Make sure to click Flip Normal Y prior to saving project. Pretty sure this is how to use Materialize.

 

[pks1414]

Thank you @YohanNaz that has points me in the right direction. Oddly enough I did experiment with Shader Map 4 which produced something similar