Metallic flake car paint with a flip colour
In your harnessBlender toolMIT
Build a car paint node material: a two-tone colour that flips at grazing angles, Voronoi metal flakes that tilt the base layer's normal so they sparkle, and a smooth clear coat on its own normal. Use it for vehicles, product renders and toys.
What it takes and gives
- Operator
- baltor.material_car_paint
- Parameters
- material_name, base_color, flip_color, metallic, base_roughness, flake_scale, flake_strength, coat_roughness and 1 more
- Result
- One material with a node tree; assigned to the active object.
- Blender
- 4.2 or later
- Axes
- Blender Z up, -Y forward
- Units
- metres
Limits. Flakes come from Voronoi cells in object space, so their size scales with the object and they alias at a distance unless enough samples are rendered. The flip colour uses a facing ramp, not measured pearlescent data, and the paint is not physically based beyond the Principled BSDF. Rendered here with Cycles CPU only. Verified in Blender 5.2.1; written for the 4.2 API.
Details
- Kind
- Blender tool
- Engine
- Blender 4.2 or later
- Files
- 11 files, 119.5 KB
- Licence
- MIT
- Declared effects
- runs commands
- Checked with
- Blender 5.2.1, background (Cycles CPU for previews)
- Checks
- addon install and enable, operator runs with defaults, blender data matches core, addon disable unregisters, script mode runs, clean reopen addon file, clean reopen script file, gltf separate export, engine output clean
- Techniques
- Layer Weight facing term driving a colour ramp for a flip colour, Normal perturbation by random Voronoi cell colours for flakes, Separate coat normal over a perturbed base normal
- Tags
- blender, material, shader nodes, car paint, metallic, clear coat, automotive
- Identity
library.supply.creative_originals.73474a361152b310a6d098b5.b2d4960c8e22493f- Version
b2d4960c8e22493fc14ee1f9da61e1a11fc309e4e8cef322ed69a439c3ba6238
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