By default this is what it has been and now I have to change hundreds if not thousands of materials in the material editor for all the models I have uploaded. Not me .... everyone that did not have specific roughness maps assigned. I used roughness maps in some of my builds, but, only to make things shiny because the default was matte.
Make that a medium Gray texture.
Just a note: Please don't accidentally change the default Metalness map back to 0.5, it's now perfect at 0.0.
Yes, this need to be fixed asap.
It's silly that creators need to waste bandwidth , memory, gpu memory because you need to add a material to get things back to not shiny. when it worked before without extra textures.
I think what you're asking for is for objects uploaded in the past to inherit this new setting in order to retain what they looked like in the past. I'd kinda like that as well, since my old scenes no longer look as good without changes. I don't see them doing that, unfortunately, because it would create some weirdness, like the need to rebuild old scenes and how they would suddenly look different as we did. And the new settings seem okay as a default for new items, don't you think? Still, it is frustrating to see old products and scenes degrade in visual (and audio) quality with each passing update that changes basic behaviors.
I get the frustration. I did work with roughness from day 1. That may have to do with me using Substance painter a lot that spits that out anyway. If I was still using just Blender I may have been in the same position. So I get you.
Still, the option was given to ad them when I joined so that could/should have been a pointer that you did need to put something into that slot. Again, if I was using just Blender and being originated in SL, I would sure have missed this point for a long time.
So being it as it is, for neutral non/full/medium roughness... that goes for metal too, make that a small all white, gray or white texture with a small resolution, like as small as Sansar will accept, that being 512x512, as far as I know... pls correct if smaller is accepted!
Again, I would be kinda frustrated if I had to re-up my textures, but let's never ignore the options/slots again to stay smiling n stuff ;)
I was able to use a 4x4 white texture, not sure if that gets scaled up though.
I dunno that either, jump in when some1 does
4x4 does the trick
I think the advise to not go below 256x256 i know that size works.
Ok, then 256 it will be, it will help if all creators will do so
quoting from discord
21:07] Nyx: Using a solid color 4x4 texture for channels you don't use probably isn't harmful. Leaving channels blank may have undefined behavior. I can't say one way or another if the behavior of a missing channel will change over time, but putting in a very small solid color texture shouldn't create too much extra data.
hmmm, lol, we should confirm that with LL, 4x4 would save more but we need to be 100% sure. Else we'll all be re-uploading for a while
What about all the models I spent good money on? How can those be fixed. I finally start to produce some good looking work myself and now everything is ruined. I'm so frustrated.
There are no good tutorials for creating content and there is no real Sansar documentation. I kind of feel like things are going backwards.
I'm almost ready to step away for a while.
You can change the roughness in world now. That came with the last update.
Read here: https://help.sansar.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003259646-Materials-editing-and-shaders
If you scroll down a bit you can see how this is done.
You money is not lost, it's just a matter of changing that one slot.
I can't tell if you are talking about models you bought in the Sansar store or models you bought online and imported? For both the solution is the same, change the roughness texture. If the material is detailed and you bought it in the Sansar store, you may have to get an updated model. I know creators are updating their items so you could try to contact the creator and request an update. Contacting is not easy yet, I would advice to use Discord.
Thanks Bluebell! There's hope, lol
The 4x4 white png texture works perfectly btw.
Well that's it. I have changed all my roughness maps in my experience. That is a couple of days of my life I won't get back. At my age that starts to mean something..... Just hope future updates aren't as invasive to me.
did you take in count that if there are no guaranties the blank textures ( not filled in) could become the same problem in the future so i mean put a default texture everywhere ? hope you know what i mean
I just wanted to start with the change.
Oh the have implemented that complete wrong.
You expect it in properties.
But no.. the did put that option in the scene setting.
To make things worse, selecting object does not select and focus it in scene window. So changing things is hard task. Especially with the tiny font i did expect the final made a bit bigger in the fashion release. On top the opacity seems to be worse. instead of make it less opacity. So, that's going to be a challenge. In this way sansar is really not easy in use.
Bigger font would make things already much more easy.