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Help with 'bronzing' or steel/metallic effect with HDRP

Discussion in 'High Definition Render Pipeline' started by zachseven, Apr 5, 2022.

  1. zachseven

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    I'm fairly new to the HDRP setup and I continually get this sort of bronzing or steel/metallic illumination in the shadowed portions of my scenes. I was hoping someone might be able to direct me on how to resolve this.
    Thanks!

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  2. Deleted User

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    Try reflection probes
     
  3. koirat

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    Are you using Physically Based Sky ambient light (Earth etc..) ?
     
  4. zachseven

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    There are 8 reflection probes already in the scene. Are you saying line more up in those shadows to reduce the metallic reflection? I'm confused about those.
     
  5. zachseven

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    It's a Physically based sky with Earth (Advanced) as the type. Spherical mode is on. The only other options ticked are the Artistic Overrides in that category. It's also an HDRI Sky with a 4K cubemap and intensity is set to exposure 10. The volume is global and a high quality Bloom. Not sure what else you'd need to know to help you but that's all I see here.... actually I think I just fixed it. I switched the Visual Environment Type HDRI Sky to Ambient Mode Dynamic rather than Static - unless you would recommend against that.
     
  6. koirat

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    I actually thought it was dynamic, as I remember Physically based sky earth got this brownish gradient at the bottom by default.
     
  7. Win3xploder

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    You need to give the renderer a specular information for rendering correct reflections. Right now, the sky is being used as a reflection source for all surfaces of the building. You have to create one or more reflection probes that envelop the building. You can start with one just outside the building and get more detailed with more probes as you need.
     
  8. zachseven

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    Thanks!
     
  9. zachseven

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    Thanks!