Textures generation
Material Generator plugins offers multiple functions to generate textures. Each of these functions needs a Generation module as input.
Displacement map
The function GenerateDisplacementMap will generate the displacement map from a generation module. This map has a black and white color gradient.
Inputs needed:
Module: a Generation module
Texture name: the output texture name
AsScreenshot: if this flag is true, the file is saved as a screenshot in screenshots folder (Saved\Screenshots\) instead of as a texture.
Here is the output texture from the GenerateDisplacementMap function:
Metallic map
The function GenerateMetallicMap will generate the metallic map from a generation module. This map has a black and white color gradient.
Inputs needed:
Module: a Generation module
Texture name: the output texture name
AsScreenshot: if this flag is true, the file is saved as a screenshot in screenshots folder (Saved\Screenshots\) instead of as a texture.
Here is the output texture from the GenerateMetallicMap function:
Roughness map
The function GenerateRoughnessMap will generate the roughness map from a generation module. This map has a black and white color gradient.
Inputs needed:
Module: a Generation module
Texture name: the output texture name
AsScreenshot: if this flag is true, the file is saved as a screenshot in screenshots folder (Saved\Screenshots\) instead of as a texture.
Here is the output texture from the GenerateRoughnessMap function:
Normal map
The function GenerateNormalMap will generate the normal map from a generation module.
The color of each pixel is determined by the normal vector at this pixel. Red composant is based on the X value of the normal vector, Green composant is based on the Y value of the normal vector and Blue composant is based on the Z value of the normal vector.
Inputs needed:
Module: a Generation module
Texture name: the output texture name
AsScreenshot: if this flag is true, the file is saved as a screenshot in screenshots folder (Saved\Screenshots\) instead of as a texture.
Here is the output texture from the GenerateNormalMap function (this output is almost flat as you can see on the normal map):
Diffuse map
The function GenerateGiffuseMap will generate the normal map from a generation module.
The color of each pixel is determined by the ColorGradient (explained later).
Inputs needed:
Module: a Generation module
Color gradient: the color gradient to use to colorize the map.
Texture name: the output texture name.
AsScreenshot: if this flag is true, the file is saved as a screenshot in screenshots folder (Saved\Screenshots\) instead of as a texture.
Here is the output texture from the GenerateDiffuseMap function using a Terrain color gradient:
