Designed Primarily for Cycles

Metalworks was developed primarily for the Cycles renderer. The full procedural effect will not work correctly in EEVEE because some of the required procedural shading features are not supported there. For EEVEE, first bake the material in Cycles and then use the generated texture maps in the baked PBR material.

Performance Depends on Your Hardware

Metalworks uses a detailed and relatively complex procedural shader. Viewport performance can therefore vary between systems depending on the available CPU, GPU, memory, scene complexity, and render settings.

If performance is slow, isolate the object using Metalworks from the rest of the scene while adjusting the material. Temporarily hide other objects, collections, lights, simulations, and heavy viewport effects so the CPU and GPU can focus on the active object and shader.

After the material is finished, return the object to the complete scene. For demanding projects, baking the final result is also recommended to reduce the continuing load on the processor and graphics hardware.

Animated and Deforming Objects

The procedural material is not recommended for objects whose mesh deforms or changes during animation. On rigged characters, shape keys, cloth, or other deforming geometry, the procedural surface may be recalculated as the mesh moves. This can cause rust, wear, dirt, or other effects to shift or appear in places where they were not visible in the original pose.

For animated characters and deforming objects, bake the material before animation or final rendering. The baked texture maps remain fixed to the UV layout and preserve the surface appearance while the object moves.

Baked Result Adjustments

The baked material is designed to match the procedural result as closely as possible, but small differences may remain in Specular, Roughness, Bump, and Normal Maps.

Minor adjustments to Bump Height, Normal Map Strength, Roughness, or Specular Correction may be required. See the One-Click Baking comparison above for a direct example.

Preset Adjustments

Each preset provides a carefully prepared starting point for a specific material style, but the final appearance can vary depending on the physical scale of the object and the lighting setup.

For the closest one-click match, use realistic object dimensions similar to those used when the preset was created. For example, a rifle preset was developed on a realistically scaled rifle. If your object is several times larger or smaller, the wear, scratches, dirt, and other procedural details may appear too large or too fine.

Small adjustments to texture scale, effect strength, roughness, or related controls are therefore recommended so the preset fits your model and scene correctly.