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This Bxdf is based on Brent Burley's extended material model, introduced in "Extending the Disney BRDF to a BSDF with Integrated Subsurface Scattering" at SIGGRAPH 2015.  

The PxrDisneyBsdf is a nice and straightforward physically-based model with a concise number of parameters, allowing for a wide range of photoreal and artistic materials, including diffuse and specular reflection and transmission, clearcoat, sheen, and subsurface scattering.  

All CG animations made at Walt Disney Animation Studios use this material model and the source code for the Pixar version of this material, PxrDisneyBsdf, is available among the bxdf code examples.

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Examples of different material parameter settings for PxrDisneyBsdf: metallic reflection, thin diffuse transmission, thin specular transmission, subsurface scattering, and glass refraction and reflection.  Image inspired by Figure 1 of the Burley Bsdf paper.


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Basic

Base Color

The main surface color, usually supplied by texture maps.

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The emission energy.  Non-black values represent glow.  Use this parameter with care.  Only use for low emission objects and materials.  For brighter objects, always use a PxrMeshLight.

Specular Reflection

Metallic

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Controls the intensity of specular reflection; 0 .0 removes it and 1 .0 maintains the full specular reflection response. This parameter is usually not needed as the specular response is determined by the incident angle of light and the roughness and IOR parameters in a physically correct way, but this parameter can override that.

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Whether the surface should be considered thin or that it forms the interface to thick material.  When set to Thin, the index of refraction is 1.0

Transmission Color

The color of transmitted light for volumetric absorption (Beer's exponential extinction law).

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Subsurface volume anisotropy (mean cosine for scattering) in path-traced subsurface scattering.  0 means isotropic scattering, values between 0 and 1 means mainly forward scattering, values between -1 and 0 means mainly backscattering.

Other parameters

Transmission Behavior

Select a transmission behavior for shadow rays: opaque or use baseColor.

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Connect a mask function here to apply a cutout pattern to your object. Presence is defined as a binary (0 or 1) function that can take on continuous values to antialias the
shape. Useful for modeling leaves and other thin, complex shapes.

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Input AOV

Plug a MatteID node here.


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PxrDisney Fridge

You can download this PxrDisney example here


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Fridge was created by artist Fabio Sciedlarczyk.