Essential Metals

30 editable smart metal materials, available exclusively to Materials+ subscribers.

Includes stainless steel, hammered and forged steel, Damascus, anodized aluminum, titanium, nickel, pewter, zinc, tin, lead, brass, bronze, copper and gold-plated metal.

Each material includes 2K maps for Base Color, Roughness, Metallic, Normal, Height, Ambient Occlusion, Emission and Opacity. Editable layers use baked mesh AO, curvature/edge maps, world-space normals and the blended tangent-normal relief. Finish-specific recess deposits and upward dust change color, roughness and metallic together. Edge burnishing follows curvature and normal detail; anodized, blackened, tempered and plated finishes can expose their underlying metal at worn edges. All intensities and generator properties remain editable.

Bake Normal, AO, Curvature and World Normal before applying. Each material automatically binds to the destination mesh normal, including replacement bakes. Select its folder for eight master controls; edit native layers and masks for detailed tuning. Installed materials appear in the Smart Materials shelf and searchable picker, and support independent duplicates, saving and versioned module updates. Its composed normal output drives wear and cavity generators through Micro Normal anchors. Requires Open Painter 0.12.3 or later. Install the pack with Open Painter Connect; these materials are not included in either add-on by default.

Created with imagegen source textures and authored PBR values. The source detail is resampled to 2K. Rainbow-anodized titanium uses a static oxide-color texture. See the included README for map conventions and setup.