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Reply To: What’s the point of the Diffuse, Glossy, Fresnel and Subsurface Scattering shaders now that we have the Principled shader?

Forum Archive › What’s the point of the Diffuse, Glossy, Fresnel and Subsurface Scattering shaders now that we have the Principled shader? › Reply To: What’s the point of the Diffuse, Glossy, Fresnel and Subsurface Scattering shaders now that we have the Principled shader?

July 31, 2017 at 10:11 am #30918
Mark Smith
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    the Principled shader is a way to group the other shaders into a work unit (for those who don’t understand or don’t want to be bothered with the tech side)…

    it doesn’t take (for instance) the glossy shader out of the mix but rather puts it in a useful place in the pipeline…

    so the shaders get incorporated (they are always present) into the grouping 

    that is commonly referred to as PBR (Physically Based Rendering)…

    hope this helps…

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