Color Booster and Height map, where do i put them?

[anonymous_user_a7b1adcd]

Just started doing some materials.
Obviously I read up on what albedo is and everything so i understand WHAT MOST of these are.
Then I down loaded some materials from freepbr.com
I dont understand in unread WHERE i attach the height texture to the output.

Also ONE of the materials has a base color then a BASE COLOR BOOSTER file.
I dont know what that is and couldnt find one while googling (all i get is a bunch of talk about android/google displays) What is that? And how do i attach it?

[IndieGameCove]

heightmap example: 1.11 - World Displacement | Unreal Engine Documentation

I suspect color booster is a term coined by the artist that made that file. could you link to the textures you downloaded?

[anonymous_user_a7b1adcd]

@IndieGameCove

heightmap example: Content Examples Sample Project for Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.3 Documentation

I suspect color booster is a term coined by the artist that made that file. could you link to the textures you downloaded?

Here is the link to the page where I got one of them:
this has the base “colorboosted” (attaching the file also)

Scuffed Gold PBR Metal Material - Free PBR Materials

And here is one with a height:

Mahogany PBR Floorboards 1 (flb1) - Free PBR Materials

(on the attached file I cropped it to about 1/4 size as it was too large to upload)

Obviously mine looks nothing like the picture even when I put them in different nodes. I got the Unreal package at the bottom, so in theory at least it is intended that it be used with unreal.

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[ZacD]

The color boost is likely meant to be used with the base color texture with a multiply or Blend_Overlay node combining the textures. Color booster isn’t a standard practice, so how it’s intended to be implemented will vary.

You probably don’t need the height map if you have a normal map, if you don’t have a normal map, you should generate one using the height map.

[anonymous_user_a7b1adcd]

@ZacD

The color boost is likely meant to be used with the base color texture with a multiply or Blend_Overlay node combining the textures. Color booster isn’t a standard practice, so how it’s intended to be implemented will vary.

You probably don’t need the height map if you have a normal map, if you don’t have a normal map, you should generate one using the height map.

Ah thanks!
I do think that one was missing a normal and I just plugged it in there thinking that’s what it meant…but everything was basically reversed by it. The planks looked really flat without the grooves…

I do appreciate the answers and help! Still so new to this and trying to learn so many things at once.

[IndieGameCove]

for the gold mat you’ll need to multiply the roughness value by ten-ish to get the scratches to show up.

[anonymous_user_a7b1adcd]

@IndieGameCove

for the gold mat you’ll need to multiply the roughness value by ten-ish to get the scratches to show up.

O_0

i’m not impressed that you knew I needed to multiply

i’m impressed you knew it was 10 for it to be visible…(i went to 20 to make them really show…)