Using a textured material

How to use a PBR material in Cyberpunk

Summary

Published: Jun 29 2022 by manavortex Last documented edit: Jun 29 by manavortex

This guide will teach you how to use a textured (also called PBR, which is a subtype of textured and will work) material in Cyberpunk. It is a part of Changing materials, colors and textures — if you are missing information, check the parent page.

Prerequisite

You have a CMaterialInstance that can use your textured material.

If you don't have one yet, follow the steps under Changing materials, colors and textures, or skip to Finding example material configurations and copy the entire material.

The textures material

The default textured material in Cyberpunk can be found under

engine\materials\metal_base.remt

By setting it as the baseMaterial, you're telling your item to load anything you configure under the values array.

Which properties can I use?

metal_base's full properties are documented under Textured (PBR) material properties. For a full list with explanations, see Material properties

Some of the most common properties for metal_base are:

Name	Type	Description
BaseColor	Texture	The base texture of your item
BaseColorScale	Vector4 / Color	If you re-select it after setting the name, Wolvenkit will show you a colour editor. This tint will be applied over your BaseColor for easy creation of variants!
Metalness	Texture	How metallic/shiny your material is
Roughness	Texture	How shiny/rough your material is
Normal	Texture	Path to your normal (bump) map texture
AlphaThreshold	Scalar (number)	Transparency threshold. Only works if the material IsMasked
Emissive	Texture	Texture for glow (with transparency andIsMasked or black/white, you can control which parts of the item glow)
EmissiveEV	Scalar (number)	Brightness of the glow. 3 is a good neon lamp, 6 might cause loss of vision, 12 will kill vampires immediately
EmissiveColor	Color	What it says. This defaults to white.
LayerTile	Scalar (number)	Seamless tiling factor

But I have a texture for...

Tough luck, this is the only textured shader we have. Time to get converting :)

Finding example material configurations

Search for metal_base in your asset browser:

engine\materials\metal_base.remt

Right-click on the entry, and select "find files using this". That will get you every base item with a textured material.

With what you now know, you can dig through their material instances and find example parameters.