Clear Coat Highlight parameters

 
 
 

What are clear coat highlights?

When an object such as a car is painted, the paint job is finished with a clear coat, a transparent protective coating applied on top of a colored base coat that creates a shiny and reflective surface. The clear coat has the effect of creating a secondary sharp highlight on the surface. Turn on clear coat highlights to produce this effect and make your materials look extra shiny with two specular highlights.

Tip

To view the parameters for a particular material, select an object with that material and press Ctrl+M.

Show clear coat highlights for this material

Select to show clear coat highlights.

Color

Adjusts the color of the clear coat highlights. For details on how to use these controls, see: Change colors. White is often a good color for clear coats, but you could darken it slightly for interesting effects.

Adjust Highlight size, Highlight transition, and the reflectivity graph the same way as described in Basic reflectivity parameters.