QUESTION Shading Basics (from Blender to KS)

[GASCORE99]

So, I'm trying to export one of my Blender car models to Assetto Corsa, and I get as many of us begginers the classic "all black car" issue, and I figured I got to bake some texture maps from Blender. I'm I right? What maps should I bake for each material? And what is the proper way of doing it in on blender? Does the shader properties in Blender matter or do I have to do a complete reshade in KSEditor?

My model is a Ferrari F360 Modena, and the materials I've defined are:

body_paint
brake_disk
carbon_fiber
emitter_brakelight
emitter_light
glass
glass_tailight
leather_black
leather_dots
leather_grey
mirror
plastic_black
plastic_grey
grilles
rim_paint
textures (logos, license plate, etc, all in one image)
tyre

I suppose after the texture baking the number of materials should be reduced (for example, the leather shaders wich I got 3 of them all pbr, sould be packed in one texture, also with plastic shaders???)

I apologize about being such a noob, but I found really hard to shade my model and it's impossible to export to kn5 because of missing texture errors!

 

[fughettaboutit]

if you have saved stuff from Blender like this, ksEditor should also load textures correctly

carfolder/
    texture/
    car.fbx
    ...

if not you should still be able to at least browse for the texture, after you clicked on a material

ksEditor only knows material names from the fbx (and is looking for the diffuse texture in "texture/" folder, but thats it
any shader/texture/multilayer stuff is done there

anything related to that in Blender will not end up in ksEditor

 

[fughettaboutit]

have a look at
...assettocorsa\sdk\dev\car_pipeline_2.0rev\AC_Pipeline_PUB_Rev2.0.pdf