and still being able to see the differences inside the game from Material A vs Material B to find the right spot we are looking for. By allowing us to use both materials, we can start have a more relaxed process to convert texture maps, implement secondary details, etc. but unfortunately when we switch from PBR material to FSmaterials without being able to compare we can lose some quality in the process without noticing it.

PBR materials allows us to control certain settings (for example reflection profiles among others, etc) in a more controlled way.

There are some things that cannot be achieved via the FSmaterials at the moment, but that are totally doable with PBR materials, so while the video game shaders get upgraded or such things are implemented directly via the FSmaterials material, we can use PBR materials as a stop gap.

This process can takes time since no 3D objects we need to convert will come with FSmaterials by default, so being able to see how things look is very important for 3rd party developers. ensuring they are moving swiftly to FSmaterials, so we need to export to the engine and check how things looks, go back and convert the part to FSMaterial, compare and continue.

When converting 3D objects from another engine to MSFS, the object will come with PBR or standard materials, sometimes hundreds of these and we need to check and convert slowly textures, settings, etc.This is correct, however there are certain occasions or circumstances were we need to use PBR materials, even if it is for a temporally period of time.

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