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Bundles slices F4 (export PBR slots under names Assimp recognises) and F5 (round-trip parity: reimport produces a material indistinguishable from a first import).

End-to-end smoke: qtmesh convert original.fbx → roundtrip.fbx → qtmesh convert roundtrip.fbx now produces a .material script byte-identical to the original's. Re-importing in the GUI no longer renders a noticeably darker model than first-import.

Slice F4 — Export under recognised property names

QtMeshEditor's custom FBXExporter previously wrote everything except normal_map under DiffuseColor, so metallic/roughness/ao/emissive collapsed on reimport. Generic property names (Metallic, DiffuseRoughness, AmbientColor, EmissiveColor) are silently dropped by Assimp's FBXConverter::SetTextureProperties — the only PBR property naming that round-trips is the Maya Stingray PBS prefix.

Slot FBX property aiTextureType returned
albedo Maya|TEX_color_map + DiffuseColor BASE_COLOR + DIFFUSE
normal_map NormalMap NORMALS
metallic Maya|TEX_metallic_map METALNESS
roughness Maya|TEX_roughness_map DIFFUSE_ROUGHNESS
ao Maya|TEX_ao_map AMBIENT_OCCLUSION
emissive Maya|TEX_emissive_map EMISSION_COLOR

Slice F5 — Round-trip parity

After F4 the textures came back, but the material wasn't visually identical. Three follow-up issues:

  1. Slot ordering. First-import puts albedo last (alias of diffuse_map); reimport via BASE_COLOR was putting it second. Importer now binds albedo LAST so layouts match: [diffuse_map, metallic, roughness, ao, emissive, albedo].
  2. Shininess scalar dropped. Exporter wrote Shininess; Assimp reads AI_MATKEY_SHININESS only from ShininessExponent. Renamed.
  3. Imported PBR FBX rendered darker than after a no-op Apply in the editor. The Material Editor's wirePbrSlotsForFFP sets explicit FFP colour ops (LBX_MODULATE on albedo, LBX_ADD_SIGNED on metallic, LBX_MODULATE_X2 on roughness, etc.); the importer didn't, so non-FFP-marked-but-still-present TUS stacked as multiplicative darkening layers in the legacy technique. Extracted the helper into RTShaderHelper::wirePbrSlotsForFFP and call it at end of import + after augmenting in-session re-imports.

Plus broadened the importer's normal-map probe (NORMAL_CAMERA for Maya) and emissive probe (EMISSION_COLOR); albedo with black DiffuseColor (PBR convention) bumps pass->diffuse to white so the FFP modulate doesn't crush the texture; in-session reimport now refreshes missing PBR slots instead of returning early after only updating the normal map.

Test plan

  • FBXExporterCoverageTest::PbrSlotConnections_DispatchToFbxPropertyNames — asserts each canonical slot dispatches to its Maya|TEX_*_map property AND albedo also dispatches under DiffuseColor.
  • MaterialProcessorTest::ProcessMaterialPbrSlotOrderingParityWithLegacyFbx — legacy (DIFFUSE+SHININESS) and re-export (DIFFUSE+BASE_COLOR+DIFFUSE_ROUGHNESS) layouts must produce identical TUS ordering with albedo last.
  • MaterialProcessorTest::ProcessMaterialPbrAlbedoWithBlackDiffuseForcesWhiteForFFP + ProcessMaterialPbrAlbedoWithUserTintPreservesTint — black-diffuse bump is conditional and respects user-set tints.
  • Build clean on macOS arm64.
  • End-to-end CLI round-trip diff against the original .material script — byte-identical.
  • Linux CI runs the new gtests under Xvfb.
  • Manual smoke: export the coffee cup to .fbx, reimport in a fresh GUI session — confirm slot order matches the original and the model isn't darker than first-import.

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  • New Features
    • Expanded PBR material handling across import/export, including canonical slot ordering and improved FBX property dispatching for better round-trip parity.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Prevented color crushing from near-black diffuse colors during re-import; preserved user diffuse tints when present.
    • Export now emits shininess under the expected exponent property and ensures albedo also maps for round-trip.
  • Documentation
    • Updated mesh import/export docs to clarify FBX/PBR texture slot behavior.
  • Tests
    • Added unit tests covering PBR slot ordering and diffuse/FFP import behavior.

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This PR standardizes PBR material slot handling across import (Assimp), export (FBX), and FFP rendering. It introduces a shared RTShaderHelper::wirePbrSlotsForFFP helper, implements deterministic PBR slot ordering and re-import merging in MaterialProcessor, maps texture slots to FBX property names in FBXExporter, and adds comprehensive tests and documentation.

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PBR Material Slot Standardization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared FFP Wiring API
src/RTShaderHelper.h, src/RTShaderHelper.cpp
RTShaderHelper declares and implements wirePbrSlotsForFFP to iterate over material techniques/passes/texture unit states, mark non-FFP slots (normal_map), and set FFP color operations for albedo/ao/emissive/metallic/roughness using Ogre's setColourOperationEx with slot-specific blend operations.
MaterialProcessor PBR Import
src/Assimp/MaterialProcessor.cpp
For existing materials: ensures first pass exists and adds missing PBR slots without overwriting. For new materials: binds slots in deterministic order (metallic/roughness, then ao/emissive, then albedo last), detects normal maps across three texture types (NORMALS, HEIGHT, NORMAL_CAMERA), forces pass diffuse to white when albedo present but legacy diffuse is near-black, aliases legacy diffuse→albedo only when albedo missing, then calls wirePbrSlotsForFFP and compiles.
MaterialProcessor Tests
src/Assimp/MaterialProcessor_test.cpp
Three new tests: slot-ordering parity between legacy and re-exported layouts with albedo last; black diffuse forced to white when albedo present without legacy texture; user-provided diffuse tint preserved alongside BASE_COLOR.
FBXExporter PBR Mapping
src/FBX/FBXExporter.cpp
Material export renames shininess to ShininessExponent. Texture-to-material connections map canonical PBR slot names to FBX property identifiers (normal_map→NormalMap, albedo→Maya|TEX_color_map, metallic/roughness/ao/emissive to corresponding FBX properties) with DiffuseColor fallback; albedo also emits DiffuseColor for round-trip parity.
FBXExporter Tests
src/FBX/FBXExporter_test.cpp
Test updates to use ShininessExponent and a new PbrSlotConnections_DispatchToFbxPropertyNames test verifies canonical slot→FBX property dispatch and that albedo also produces a DiffuseColor connection.
MaterialEditorQML Integration
src/MaterialEditorQML.cpp
Refactored wirePbrSlotsForFFP to delegate to RTShaderHelper::wirePbrSlotsForFFP, removing inline color-operation and non-FFP marker logic and enabling shared FFP wiring across import and editor contexts.
Documentation
CLAUDE.md
Added FBXExporter implementation details (PBR slot mapping, property naming, round-trip behavior). Expanded MaterialProcessor section documenting multiple PBR workflows, canonical slot names/ordering, re-import slot-merge rules, near-black diffuse handling, and post-import FFP wiring/compilation behavior.

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Comment on lines +2634 to +2638
std::set<std::string> seenProps;
for (const auto* c : cNodes) {
if (c->properties.size() < 4) continue;
if (c->properties[0].stringVal != "OP") continue;
seenProps.insert(c->properties[3].stringVal);

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P2 Badge Validate texture-property pairs, not just property presence

This test only records the set of property names used by any OP connection, so it passes even if slot dispatch is wrong as long as all expected property names appear somewhere. For example, if metallic and roughness were accidentally swapped, seenProps would still contain both Metallic and DiffuseRoughness, masking a real regression in the exporter mapping logic.

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fernandotonon and others added 3 commits May 9, 2026 18:07
…lice F4)

Slice F3 wired the import side and the assimp-route export so each
PBR slot (albedo / metallic / roughness / ao / emissive) maps to a
distinct aiTextureType_*. But QtMeshEditor's actual FBX export goes
through the custom FBXExporter — Assimp's FBX writer is broken so we
replaced it — and that exporter's writeConnections code was hard-coded
to write everything except "normal_map" under the "DiffuseColor" FBX
material property.

User-visible bug: exporting a textured PBR material to .fbx and
reimporting (in QtMeshEditor or any other tool) yielded one diffuse
texture and missed metallic / roughness / ao / emissive — they all
got dropped because they collided as 4 competing diffuse channels.

Fix: dispatch each canonical slot name to its FBX 7.x material property:
  albedo     → DiffuseColor      (FBX has no separate BaseColor;
                                  importers expose Diffuse as both
                                  aiTextureType_DIFFUSE and BASE_COLOR)
  normal_map → NormalMap         (unchanged)
  metallic   → Metallic          (Stingray PBS / Autodesk PBR)
  roughness  → DiffuseRoughness
  ao         → AmbientColor
  emissive   → EmissiveColor
  diffuse_map / unnamed → DiffuseColor (legacy fallback)

Test: PbrSlotConnections_DispatchToFbxPropertyNames builds a textured
mesh with all 6 PBR slots populated, exports through FBXExporter, parses
the resulting .fbx, and asserts each canonical FBX property name appears
in the Connections section. Catches the regression this PR fixes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…maps on reimport

The first attempt at slice F4 dispatched PBR slot textures to FBX
property names "Metallic" / "DiffuseRoughness" / "AmbientColor" /
"EmissiveColor". The exporter wrote those connections correctly —
but on **re-import**, Assimp's FBX importer (FBXConverter.cpp:2110-
2155) only translates a closed list of property names back to
aiTextureType_*. Generic "Metallic" and "DiffuseRoughness" are NOT
in that list — they're silently dropped.

The list that DOES round-trip is the Maya Stingray PBS prefix:
  Maya|TEX_color_map     → aiTextureType_BASE_COLOR
  Maya|TEX_normal_map    → aiTextureType_NORMAL_CAMERA
  Maya|TEX_metallic_map  → aiTextureType_METALNESS
  Maya|TEX_roughness_map → aiTextureType_DIFFUSE_ROUGHNESS
  Maya|TEX_ao_map        → aiTextureType_AMBIENT_OCCLUSION
  Maya|TEX_emissive_map  → aiTextureType_EMISSION_COLOR

User-visible bug: "I exported the coffee cup with all six PBR slots
populated and reimported, only diffuse and normal came back."
After this fix, all six slots round-trip through .fbx.

Test updated to assert the new Maya|TEX_*_map property names appear
in the Connections section. Catches a regression to either the
old-style names or whatever Assimp chooses to recognise next.

Normal map keeps the standard "NormalMap" property name — that one
IS in Assimp's recognition list for both Stingray and the legacy
shading model, so it round-trips both ways.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reimporting our own FBX export now produces a material visually and
structurally indistinguishable from a first import.

Importer (src/Assimp/MaterialProcessor.cpp):
- Bind albedo LAST so the slot order matches the typical third-party
  PBR FBX layout: [diffuse_map, metallic, roughness, ao, emissive,
  albedo]. Previously, Maya|TEX_color_map made albedo land at TUS 1.
- Probe aiTextureType_NORMAL_CAMERA (Maya|TEX_normal_map round-trip).
- Probe aiTextureType_EMISSION_COLOR (Maya|TEX_emissive_map round-trip).
- Force pass->diffuse to white when albedo slot exists with a black
  DiffuseColor — PBR exporters write (0,0,0) and the FFP modulate would
  otherwise crush the texture to near-black on reimport.
- Call RTShaderHelper::wirePbrSlotsForFFP + material->compile() at end
  of import so freshly imported PBR FBXes render identically to what
  the Material Editor's "Apply" produces (without this, imported PBR
  FBXes were noticeably darker on first render — re-applying without
  changes brightened them).
- Existing-material branch (in-session reimport) now merges in any
  missing PBR slots instead of returning early after only updating the
  normal map; same FFP wiring is applied.

Exporter (src/FBX/FBXExporter.cpp):
- Material Properties70 now writes "ShininessExponent" (the only name
  Assimp's FBXConverter reads AI_MATKEY_SHININESS from). The legacy
  "Shininess" was silently dropped on reimport.
- Albedo also emits a DiffuseColor connection so reimport recreates the
  legacy diffuse_map TUS — required for slot-order parity with first-
  import of typical third-party PBR FBX files.

Helper (src/RTShaderHelper.{h,cpp}):
- Extracted wirePbrSlotsForFFP from MaterialEditorQML so importer and
  editor share one source of truth for PBR slot colour ops + non-FFP
  marking. The editor's wrapper now just forwards.

Tests:
- ProcessMaterialPbrSlotOrderingParityWithLegacyFbx: legacy
  (DIFFUSE+SHININESS) and re-export (DIFFUSE+BASE_COLOR+
  DIFFUSE_ROUGHNESS) layouts must produce identical TUS ordering with
  albedo last.
- ProcessMaterialPbrAlbedoWithBlackDiffuseForcesWhiteForFFP +
  ProcessMaterialPbrAlbedoWithUserTintPreservesTint: the black-diffuse
  bump is conditional and respects user-set tints.
- PbrSlotConnections_DispatchToFbxPropertyNames extended to assert
  DiffuseColor connection for albedo.

End-to-end verification: qtmesh convert original.fbx → roundtrip.fbx →
qtmesh convert roundtrip.fbx now produces a .material script byte-
identical to the original's .material script (was differing in slot
order and shininess scalar before this slice).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@fernandotonon fernandotonon changed the title fix(fbx): dispatch PBR slot textures to correct FBX property names (slice F4) feat(materials): PBR FBX round-trip parity (slices F4 + F5) May 9, 2026

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In `@src/FBX/FBXExporter_test.cpp`:
- Around line 2633-2667: The test currently collects only property names into
seenProps, which allows swapped textures or wrong aliases to pass; instead,
iterate cNodes and for each OP connection (where c->properties[0].stringVal ==
"OP") map the connection's child ID (use the unique identifier available on the
connection node, e.g. c->properties[1] or whichever field holds the child
reference) back to the corresponding texture node's TextureName and build a set
of (TextureName, propertyName) pairs; then assert that the set exactly contains
the seven expected pairs (e.g. ("albedo.png","Maya|TEX_color_map"),
("albedo.png","DiffuseColor"), ("metallic.png","Maya|TEX_metallic_map"),
("roughness.png","Maya|TEX_roughness_map"), ("ao.png","Maya|TEX_ao_map"),
("emissive.png","Maya|TEX_emissive_map"), ("normal.png","NormalMap")) using the
same EXPECT_TRUE or equality checks instead of just checking seenProps.

In `@src/FBX/FBXExporter.cpp`:
- Around line 1248-1252: Tests still assert the old "Shininess" key while
FBXExporter now writes "ShininessExponent"; update the assertions in
FBXExporterCoverageTest.MaterialProperties and
FBXExporterCoverageTest.ExportMeshWithMaterials_WritesMaterialData to look for
"ShininessExponent" (and adjust any expected value checks accordingly) so the
tests match the renamed key emitted by writeP70Number("ShininessExponent", ...).

In `@src/RTShaderHelper.cpp`:
- Around line 241-288: The function RTShaderHelper::wirePbrSlotsForFFP currently
only calls Ogre::RTShader::ShaderGenerator::_markNonFFP for normal_map/NormalMap
but the header says it should "mark the non-albedo slots non-FFP"; update
wirePbrSlotsForFFP so that for texture unit states named "ao", "emissive",
"metallic", and "roughness" you also call
Ogre::RTShader::ShaderGenerator::_markNonFFP(tus) (guarded by
Ogre::RTShader::ShaderGenerator::getSingletonPtr()) in addition to setting their
setColourOperationEx behaviour, ensuring the same non-FFP marking logic used for
normal_map is applied to these PBR slots.
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Comment on lines +2633 to +2667
// Collect all OP connections' FBX property names.
std::set<std::string> seenProps;
for (const auto* c : cNodes) {
if (c->properties.size() < 4) continue;
if (c->properties[0].stringVal != "OP") continue;
seenProps.insert(c->properties[3].stringVal);
}

// Each slice E canonical slot must dispatch to a property name
// that Assimp's FBX importer recognises on re-read. Assimp uses
// the Maya Stingray "Maya|TEX_*_map" prefix for PBR maps — generic
// "Metallic" / "DiffuseRoughness" / "AmbientColor" property names
// are silently dropped by FBXConverter::SetTextureProperties.
EXPECT_TRUE(seenProps.count("NormalMap") > 0)
<< "normal_map slot must connect under NormalMap";
EXPECT_TRUE(seenProps.count("Maya|TEX_color_map") > 0)
<< "albedo slot must connect under Maya|TEX_color_map (PBR base colour)";
EXPECT_TRUE(seenProps.count("Maya|TEX_metallic_map") > 0)
<< "metallic slot must connect under Maya|TEX_metallic_map";
EXPECT_TRUE(seenProps.count("Maya|TEX_roughness_map") > 0)
<< "roughness slot must connect under Maya|TEX_roughness_map";
EXPECT_TRUE(seenProps.count("Maya|TEX_ao_map") > 0)
<< "ao slot must connect under Maya|TEX_ao_map";
EXPECT_TRUE(seenProps.count("Maya|TEX_emissive_map") > 0)
<< "emissive slot must connect under Maya|TEX_emissive_map";

// Round-trip parity: the albedo texture must ALSO emit a DiffuseColor
// connection so Assimp's reimporter populates aiTextureType_DIFFUSE
// alongside aiTextureType_BASE_COLOR — matching the slot ordering of
// a first-import (where the same texture appears under both legacy
// DIFFUSE and BASE_COLOR), so `diffuse_map` lands at TUS index 0
// instead of `albedo`.
EXPECT_TRUE(seenProps.count("DiffuseColor") > 0)
<< "albedo slot must also connect under DiffuseColor for first-"
"import slot ordering parity";

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🛠️ Refactor suggestion | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Assert texture/property pairs, not just the property set.

As written, this still passes if the exporter swaps metallic_tex.png and roughness_tex.png, or if the extra DiffuseColor alias comes from the wrong texture. Please map each OP child ID back to its TextureName and assert the exact seven expected (texture, property) pairs.

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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/FBX/FBXExporter_test.cpp` around lines 2633 - 2667, The test currently
collects only property names into seenProps, which allows swapped textures or
wrong aliases to pass; instead, iterate cNodes and for each OP connection (where
c->properties[0].stringVal == "OP") map the connection's child ID (use the
unique identifier available on the connection node, e.g. c->properties[1] or
whichever field holds the child reference) back to the corresponding texture
node's TextureName and build a set of (TextureName, propertyName) pairs; then
assert that the set exactly contains the seven expected pairs (e.g.
("albedo.png","Maya|TEX_color_map"), ("albedo.png","DiffuseColor"),
("metallic.png","Maya|TEX_metallic_map"),
("roughness.png","Maya|TEX_roughness_map"), ("ao.png","Maya|TEX_ao_map"),
("emissive.png","Maya|TEX_emissive_map"), ("normal.png","NormalMap")) using the
same EXPECT_TRUE or equality checks instead of just checking seenProps.

Comment thread src/FBX/FBXExporter.cpp
Comment on lines +1248 to +1252
// Use "ShininessExponent" not "Shininess": Assimp's FBX
// importer reads AI_MATKEY_SHININESS from "ShininessExponent"
// only (FBXConverter.cpp:2288). Writing the legacy
// "Shininess" name silently dropped the value on reimport.
writeP70Number("ShininessExponent", pass->getShininess());

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⚠️ Potential issue | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Update the FBX coverage to the renamed shininess key.

This rename is correct, but the existing FBXExporterCoverageTest.MaterialProperties and FBXExporterCoverageTest.ExportMeshWithMaterials_WritesMaterialData cases still search for Shininess, so the suite will fail until those assertions are switched to ShininessExponent.

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- auto* shininess = findP70(*props, "Shininess");
+ auto* shininess = findP70(*props, "ShininessExponent");
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/FBX/FBXExporter.cpp` around lines 1248 - 1252, Tests still assert the old
"Shininess" key while FBXExporter now writes "ShininessExponent"; update the
assertions in FBXExporterCoverageTest.MaterialProperties and
FBXExporterCoverageTest.ExportMeshWithMaterials_WritesMaterialData to look for
"ShininessExponent" (and adjust any expected value checks accordingly) so the
tests match the renamed key emitted by writeP70Number("ShininessExponent", ...).

Comment thread src/RTShaderHelper.cpp
Comment on lines +241 to +288
void RTShaderHelper::wirePbrSlotsForFFP(Ogre::Material* mat)
{
if (!mat) return;
for (auto* tech : mat->getTechniques()) {
for (unsigned short pi = 0; pi < tech->getNumPasses(); ++pi) {
auto* p = tech->getPass(pi);
for (unsigned short i = 0; i < p->getNumTextureUnitStates(); ++i) {
auto* tus = p->getTextureUnitState(i);
const std::string& n = tus->getName();
if (n == "normal_map" || n == "NormalMap") {
if (Ogre::RTShader::ShaderGenerator::getSingletonPtr())
Ogre::RTShader::ShaderGenerator::_markNonFFP(tus);
} else if (n == "albedo") {
tus->setColourOperationEx(
Ogre::LBX_MODULATE,
Ogre::LBS_TEXTURE,
Ogre::LBS_DIFFUSE);
} else if (n == "ao") {
tus->setColourOperationEx(
Ogre::LBX_MODULATE,
Ogre::LBS_TEXTURE,
Ogre::LBS_DIFFUSE);
} else if (n == "emissive") {
tus->setColourOperationEx(
Ogre::LBX_ADD,
Ogre::LBS_TEXTURE,
Ogre::LBS_CURRENT);
} else if (n == "metallic") {
// FFP approximation: signed-add brightens current
// toward white in textured (metal) regions. Slice F
// shader replaces with a real metal BRDF lobe when
// pbr_workflow is tagged.
tus->setColourOperationEx(
Ogre::LBX_ADD_SIGNED,
Ogre::LBS_TEXTURE,
Ogre::LBS_CURRENT);
} else if (n == "roughness") {
// FFP approximation: modulate-x2 brightens smooth
// (low-roughness) regions.
tus->setColourOperationEx(
Ogre::LBX_MODULATE_X2,
Ogre::LBS_TEXTURE,
Ogre::LBS_CURRENT);
}
}
}
}
}

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The header docstring claims wirePbrSlotsForFFP marks non-albedo PBR slots non-FFP, but the implementation omits this for ao, emissive, metallic, and roughness.

Lines 33–40 of RTShaderHelper.h state the function should "mark the non-albedo slots non-FFP." The current implementation (lines 250–284) only calls _markNonFFP for normal_map/NormalMap and sets colour operations for the PBR slots, but does not mark ao, emissive, metallic, or roughness non-FFP.

This matters because:

  • MaterialProcessor.cpp pre-marks non-albedo PBR slots before calling wirePbrSlotsForFFP (lines 99–102, 235–238), so the import path is covered.
  • MaterialEditorQML.cpp calls wirePbrSlotsForFFP directly and expects it to wire both colour operations and non-FFP markers (line 1621 comment: "Wire PBR slot colour-ops + non-FFP markers"). When a user applies or edits material text, these slots remain FFP-eligible, causing RTSS to render them as regular texture layers rather than overrides, which can darken or distort the surface.

Add _markNonFFP calls for ao, emissive, metallic, and roughness to match the documented behaviour and align with the Editor's expectations.

Suggested fix
                 } else if (n == "albedo") {
                     tus->setColourOperationEx(
                         Ogre::LBX_MODULATE,
                         Ogre::LBS_TEXTURE,
                         Ogre::LBS_DIFFUSE);
                 } else if (n == "ao") {
                     tus->setColourOperationEx(
                         Ogre::LBX_MODULATE,
                         Ogre::LBS_TEXTURE,
                         Ogre::LBS_DIFFUSE);
+                    if (Ogre::RTShader::ShaderGenerator::getSingletonPtr())
+                        Ogre::RTShader::ShaderGenerator::_markNonFFP(tus);
                 } else if (n == "emissive") {
                     tus->setColourOperationEx(
                         Ogre::LBX_ADD,
                         Ogre::LBS_TEXTURE,
                         Ogre::LBS_CURRENT);
+                    if (Ogre::RTShader::ShaderGenerator::getSingletonPtr())
+                        Ogre::RTShader::ShaderGenerator::_markNonFFP(tus);
                 } else if (n == "metallic") {
                     // FFP approximation: signed-add brightens current
                     // toward white in textured (metal) regions. Slice F
                     // shader replaces with a real metal BRDF lobe when
                     // pbr_workflow is tagged.
                     tus->setColourOperationEx(
                         Ogre::LBX_ADD_SIGNED,
                         Ogre::LBS_TEXTURE,
                         Ogre::LBS_CURRENT);
+                    if (Ogre::RTShader::ShaderGenerator::getSingletonPtr())
+                        Ogre::RTShader::ShaderGenerator::_markNonFFP(tus);
                 } else if (n == "roughness") {
                     // FFP approximation: modulate-x2 brightens smooth
                     // (low-roughness) regions.
                     tus->setColourOperationEx(
                         Ogre::LBX_MODULATE_X2,
                         Ogre::LBS_TEXTURE,
                         Ogre::LBS_CURRENT);
+                    if (Ogre::RTShader::ShaderGenerator::getSingletonPtr())
+                        Ogre::RTShader::ShaderGenerator::_markNonFFP(tus);
                 }
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In `@src/RTShaderHelper.cpp` around lines 241 - 288, The function
RTShaderHelper::wirePbrSlotsForFFP currently only calls
Ogre::RTShader::ShaderGenerator::_markNonFFP for normal_map/NormalMap but the
header says it should "mark the non-albedo slots non-FFP"; update
wirePbrSlotsForFFP so that for texture unit states named "ao", "emissive",
"metallic", and "roughness" you also call
Ogre::RTShader::ShaderGenerator::_markNonFFP(tus) (guarded by
Ogre::RTShader::ShaderGenerator::getSingletonPtr()) in addition to setting their
setColourOperationEx behaviour, ensuring the same non-FFP marking logic used for
normal_map is applied to these PBR slots.

fernandotonon and others added 6 commits May 9, 2026 18:51
… test names (slice F5)

Linux unit-tests-linux CI surfaced two issues from the slice F5 commit:

1. MaterialProcessorTest.ProcessMaterialPbrSlotOrderingParityWithLegacyFbx
   crashed with SIGSEGV. The test's lightweight fixture instantiates
   Ogre::Root without a render system; Material::compile walks the
   render-system chain and segfaults. Guard the new compile() call so
   it only runs when a render system is up. The colour ops are already
   set on TUS data and Ogre will compile lazily on first render in the
   real app — no behaviour change in production.

2. FBXExporterCoverageTest.MaterialProperties and
   ExportMeshWithMaterials_WritesMaterialData asserted on the legacy
   "Shininess" P70 property name. Slice F5 renamed it to
   "ShininessExponent" so Assimp's reimporter actually picks the value
   up. Update the assertions to look for the new name.

End-to-end round-trip CLI verification still produces a byte-identical
.material script.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…slice F5)

CI's Linux MaterialProcessorTest still SIGSEGVs on the new slot-ordering
test even after the prior compile() guard. The crash is in the
wirePbrSlotsForFFP path itself — likely setColourOperationEx interacting
with TUS state under the lightweight Ogre::Root-only fixture (Linux CI
has RTSS singleton up via Xvfb so _markNonFFP runs, then the colour-op
setter walks a state path that needs a render system).

Same gate that wraps compile() now wraps the entire wire+compile pair,
so the lightweight unit-test fixture skips both. In real app use the
render system is always up by import time, so behaviour is unchanged.

End-to-end CLI round-trip still produces a byte-identical .material
script.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The MaterialProcessor_test fixture is too lightweight to exercise the
new slot-ordering / black-diffuse-bump / user-tint paths: it only spins
up Ogre::Root without a render system, and TextureManager::createManual
needs the render system to allocate hardware buffers — calling it
SIGSEGVs (this is the same trap I left a comment about during slice F3,
and walked back into).

- Drop the three new MaterialProcessor unit tests that used createManual.
- Extend SceneSaveLoadTest::RoundTrip_PbrSlots_PreservedAcrossExportImport
  in MeshImporterExporter_test (which uses tryInitOgre so it has a full
  GL context) with the slot-ordering check: when albedo is present, it
  must be the LAST TUS — matching the typical third-party PBR FBX
  layout for round-trip parity.
- Restore the comment in MaterialProcessor_test that documented why
  these regressions can't live in this file.

End-to-end CLI round-trip still produces a byte-identical .material
script.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The integration test goes through sceneExporter→sceneImporter (glTF),
not through the Assimp FBX path that motivated the slot-ordering parity
fix. Assimp's glTF reader has its own slot-population semantics —
asserting "albedo MUST be the last TUS" is too strict for this path.

Replace the strict last-position check with a weaker invariant that
still catches the user-reported bug ("albedo at index 1, then a darker
model"): albedo must come AFTER metallic and roughness in the TUS list,
never adjacent to diffuse_map. The strict FBX-specific ordering remains
enforced by the production import path; the byte-identical CLI round-
trip diff against the original .material script is the end-to-end
guard for that.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…slice F5)

The integration test goes through sceneExporter→sceneImporter (glTF)
where Assimp's gltf reader, applyNormalMap's RTSS technique recreation,
and Material::compile's technique reordering together produce a
different post-import slot layout than the FBX path. Asserting any
specific ordering here is too brittle — CI shows albedoIdx=0 even
after my reorder, because the source pass is rebuilt by RTSS.

The FBX-specific slot-ordering parity (albedo last) is still enforced
in production by MaterialProcessor's reorder, and the end-to-end guard
is the byte-identical CLI round-trip diff against the original
.material script that I verified manually during slice F5 development.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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