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    Materials Girl

    I’ve been playing around with the free-to-use InstaMAT program, which has a feature for converting a single flat image texture to an array of Blinn-Phong materials, and also PBR materials. Just getting signed up for the Pioneer license was a major headache (screaming was involved). Then I discovered that the quick “Materialize Image” workflow adds unwanted alpha channels, and bulk uploads don’t strip out the alphas the way single uploads does. I should send a note to the Firestorm team on that… Here’s the eventual result: 2 grey weathered crates, the one on the left looks slightly more detailed. Whoo!…