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The clearcoat layer is on top of emission in the layering stack. Consequently, the emission is darkened by the Fresnel term.
coated_emission = emission * (0.04 + (1 - 0.04) * (1 - NdotV)^5)
Thought experiment:
You have an emissive glass sphere with IOR 1.5 and add an infinitely thin white clearcoat with IOR 1.5 on top of it.
What changes? Nothing. The resulting image should be exactly the same.
There is no vacuum to clearcoat boundary beneath the clearcoat surface, so any emitted light from that surface should not be affected at all by the clearcoat Fresnel, no matter what the base material is.
The clearcoat would potentially just add reflections from other lights with the Fresnel between the surrounding medium (usually vacuum) and the hardcoded IOR of 1.5 of the clearcoat. Only the weighting of the base material BSDF under the clearcoat layer is affected by that Fresnel.
(If the KHR_materials_clearcoat had specified a color, that would affect the emission, but as long as the clearcoat is white and infinitely thin, it should not block light emissions in any way.
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Thought experiment:
You have an emissive glass sphere with IOR 1.5 and add an infinitely thin white clearcoat with IOR 1.5 on top of it.
What changes? Nothing. The resulting image should be exactly the same.
There is no vacuum to clearcoat boundary beneath the clearcoat surface, so any emitted light from that surface should not be affected at all by the clearcoat Fresnel, no matter what the base material is.
The clearcoat would potentially just add reflections from other lights with the Fresnel between the surrounding medium (usually vacuum) and the hardcoded IOR of 1.5 of the clearcoat. Only the weighting of the base material BSDF under the clearcoat layer is affected by that Fresnel.
(If the KHR_materials_clearcoat had specified a color, that would affect the emission, but as long as the clearcoat is white and infinitely thin, it should not block light emissions in any way.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: