I suspect the answer will be simple, but why does color of fabric change when activating appearance editor? And for that matter, how come the skin turns shiny and "wet" looking?

Here's preview pics to show what I mean.
https://uploadpie.com/8lS1Aq



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You were absolutely right as usual, in CC 2 it always gives this warning about something about "flattening" the image or something when activating appearance editor.

When I use the regular CC 1.5, I don't have that issue at all.

At this point, I'm just not going to use CC 2 anymore until we're in iClone 7 (which is when PBR will be supported I guess).

Thanks again.


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In CC2, if you are in PBR mode and then activate the appearance editor and "clear" the unused channels, it (erroneously) leaves you with an empty roughness and metallic channels, resulting in very shiny people or clothing.

Drag a black jpeg onto the Metallic channel (usually), and some level of gray jpeg onto the Roughness channel.  That should be a good start.
>>> Or better yet...  If you already made it shiny, click the "Convert Shader" icon to make it PBR and it will reinstate the Metallic and Roughness maps.

Then remember to click the "Keep" button when you launch the Appearance Editor in the future.

P.S.
Usually something is metallic (white) or not (black).  A "gray" semi-metallic is possible, but not really a good practice.

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As to the Clear/Keep dialog in CC 2.0 that Viking mentions; I can't really think of a reason to select Clear. If the original material has a Specularity map it will be converted to Roughness. If there are no maps then the results map be disappointing and/or hard to adjust. Unless RL has a convincing reason to keep it, I think the dialog should be removed.

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I believe I have a valid scenario for the "Clear" option.  Like many mini-tutorials of mine, it hasn't materialized yet.

1)  Load a material (Substance) with a very distinctive height map.  Verify everything looks great.
2)  Load a different material, such as silk or satin, which has no height map.
2a)  Use the "Keep" option, and the old height map is still there, messing up the smooth silk material
2b)  Use the "Clear" option, since the new material has no height map, and it looks correct

The problem is that "Clear" tends to clear out the Metallic and Roughness maps.
In my opinion, if you are in PBR mode, you should always have those two maps.
It could default to Metallic=Black and Roughness=Gray.
Then you can easily modify them using the color adjustment panel.

Yes, I agree, I should document this brilliant suggestion in FeedBack Tracker.

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