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Simply the diffuse of a material. With PBR this is the scientific term for diffuse.

Alpha is a technique in 3D computer graphics involving the use of texture mapping to designate the amount of transparency/translucency of areas in a certain object.

Shading and rendering technique used to calculate how exposed each point in a scene is to ambient lighting

The process of transferring data from one asset to another. Usually used in terms of baking high poly info to low poly info

A black and white image to explain height difference in the surface. For games this has been replaced by Normal maps.

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Another name for Albedo

Digital Content Creation. For example: modo, max, Maya, and blender.

How many objects are being drawn to the screen.

A system that models how light is bounced off of surfaces onto other surfaces (indirect light) rather than being limited to just the light that hits a surface directly from a light source (direct light).

Graphics Processing Unit aka your video card.

A texture map that tells you if a pixel is metal or not. Think in black or white.

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Physically based rendering.

Quality assurance also known in some cases as a tester.

Quantified by the deviations in the direction of the normal vector of a real surface from its ideal form. If these deviations are large, the surface is rough; if they are small, the surface is smooth.

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