decal_base

Detail activates a set of textures (diffuse, normal, specular) to form a material layer. It is applied for bringing detalization to the material.

Available options are:

• Skip - disabled.
• Overlay first - depending on the base diffuse texture color, the base and detail textures colors are either multiplied (for dark color pixels) or screened (for light color pixels), which leads to the contrast increase while preserving highlights and shadows. Grey pixels are not effected at all. The blending is applied to the first UV coordinates of the mesh.
• Multiply first - the base diffuse texture color is multiplied by the detail texture color, resulting in darker colors. White pixels are not effected at all. The blending is applied to the first UV coordinates of the mesh.

Opacity map indicates the alpha channel of which texture to use:

• Main - use the alpha channel of the main (diffuse) texture.
• Normal - use the alpha channel of the normal map

Distance Fade enables smooth fading depending on the distance to the surface where decal is projected. It activates Fade Threshold and Fade Power

When you enable Angle threshold option, the angle of the surface will have influence of the decal projection. Enabling this option activates Threshold and Angle Power parameter, that allows to modify the angle, when the decal shouldn't be projected.

The angle threshold allows you to increase the slope for projecting overlap material. It can even be rendered on surfaces that face downwards.

Normal substitute specifies a rendering mode for normals. By default, normal maps of a base and overlapping material are combined together. with this option enabled, only normals of the overlapping material are used

The Blend option allows you to select the type of material blending:

• Noise - similar to alpha test decal, but it can provide a gradient effect.
• Alpha Blend - alpha blending mode.
• Overlay - overlay blending.
• Multiply - multiply blending.

• Diffuse - diffuse texture color. A color picker to choose the color of the diffuse map.
• Specular - specular texture color. A color picker to choose the color of the specular map.
• Gloss scale - specular texture scale (a coefficient modifying the size of the highlight).
• Normal - is an intensity of the relief of the normal map.
• Microfiber - a coefficient to scale the intensity of the microfiber (provided by a microfiber texture). The higher the value, the higher the microfiber texture effect is.
• Back - a scale of the translucency effect, which permits light to pass through the object, but diffuses it so objects on the opposite side are not clearly visible.

• Diffuse Visible - a parameter that specifies the influence of the diffuse of the decal over the surface material.
• Specular Visible - a parameter that specifies the influence of the texture specular of the decal over surface material.
• Gloss Visible - a parameter that specifies the influence of the texture gloss of the decal over the surface material.
• Microfiber Visible - a parameter that specifies the influence of the base microfiber texture of the decal over the surface material.
• Translucent Visible - a parameter that specifies the influence of the translucency effect of the decal over the surface material.
• Normal Visible - a parameter that specifies the influence of the normal texture over the surface material.

• Diffuse - multiplier of the detail color of the surface provided by the detail diffuse texture similar to the base texture Diffuse parameter.
• Specular - is a color picker to choose the auxiliary specular color for the detail specular texture similar to the base texture Specular parameter..
• Gloss - a parameter modifying the size of the highlight of the detail texture similar to the base texture Gloss parameter.

• Diffuse Visible - a parameter that specifies the influence of the detail texture diffuse over the base texture diffuse.
• Specular Visible - a parameter that specifies the influence of the detail texture specular over the base texture specular.
• Gloss Visible - a parameter that specifies the influence of the detail texture gloss over the base texture gloss.
• Normal Visible - a parameter that specifies the influence of the detail normal texture over the surface.