Images for Blender 4.0 Release Notes and Manual

This is what I took while playing with the new Principled BSDF, using Carved Wooden Elephant from Poly Haven.

edit: some scene adjustments, rendered in AgX instead of Filmic, added masked Coat variation

Base layer only:

Sheen as dust (using a mix of normal direction and procedural textures as mask):

Sheen + Coat (with its own normal using voronoi texture):

Sheen + Coat + Emission:

Sheen + Tinted Coat:

Sheen + Tinted Coat with mask and border normal by noise texture:

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