+1 to all that Stefan-L is saying.
and second we are still artists and need to react to our customers wishes.
Corona is a tool for artists as far i understand it, and its target is to provide us a good and easy to use work flow.
the future of the phy-material will be only bright if it let us make the usual daily needed material tunings
I also understand corona’s approach to make the PBR MAT “fool proof” because users can’t be trusted. That’s why the base layer color value needs to be restricted between 7% and 93%
Ok, I’M KIDDING, or am I?
Back to the issue, everyone that worked with
real clients knows that they care very little, if at all, about what’s physically correct. That includes architects that, you would assume, are interested in “a real world” representation of materials.
A friend of mine is a architectural photographer working with big name arch firms, and we talk about the absurd retouching requests he gets. Reflections are always a battle.
In my early days I worked in a photo studio, and pol filters for lights and lenses were in daily use. Anything to kill unwanted reflections.
So, while the quest for physically correct*** materials is honorable and probably prevents many disasters, a “reflection value” slider is absolutely needed.
If this is not possible in PBR mat, please reassure us that the legacy material is here to stay, by renaming it to “experimental” or “DO NOT USE” or whatever prevents the casual user from touching it.
***lol - my autocomplete just made “physically corrupt” out of “physically correct” - says it all.