PBS map limitations on Mac

[juhatak]

Hi,

I was following fxphd training called Flame Full Production Workflow made by Mihran Stepanyan.

In the very first video he goes trough PBR and PBS Maps. I simply noticed that Specular Level he uses in the training is missing from my Flame. I checked from Flame help and there was following notion: On a Mac system, you are limited to Base Color, Roughness, Metallic, AO, Opacity, and Height shader types.

Obviously I'm running Flame on Mac environment, but can someone tell me why there is such a limitation? Is there some sort of workaround to achieve similar result without having those options?

Thanks!

[Grant.Kay · Accepted solution]

Hi Juhatak,

Unfortunately this is a hardware limitation and not a software limitation.

In terms of achieving a similar effect, We can make suggestions but it doesn't make any sense without seeing an example.

Please hit the Accept as Solution button if my post fully solves your issue or answers your question.

Regards

Grant

[juhatak]

Here you can check preview video of his training. Simply hit yellow button Watch Preview Movie and you will see the Graphics text with red speckle background and that is what I'm looking after. It is kind of car paint shader.

https://www.fxphd.com/details/543/

Thanks.

[Grant.Kay]

Hi,

I looked at the example and you might be able to adjust the specularity setting in the shader node to help with this effect.   

Please hit the Accept as Solution button if my post fully solves your issue or answers your question.

Regards

Grant