Metallic component

I sometimes desired to mix metallic and not metallic effects.
Making a surface filter as metallic is possible only in the result, and this implicates that the whole filter becomes metallic.
Making a part as metallic and another part as not metallic is not possible.
What about adding a component to give metallic effect?

I was under the impression that this was already implemented, as mentioned by ThreeDee.

Hi Ramlyn,

That is in the right direction. You don't need to make the sky Metallic input transparent, just black. The Metallic Amount is relative to the grey level you feed into the input, 0% being black and 100% being white. Let's say you wanted a 30% Metallic setting for the lower part, you would feed in a 30% grey into that area of the Metallic input, and 0% to the sky. Similarly, you can control the Reflectivity and Reflection Blur by feeding a different grey level into it, including a variable grey level (which is essentially what you have done in your example by feeding an image there).

If you wanted to add water to the lower part with a different reflection setting, say 90%, you can use the same method (Mask/Threshold/other) as you use to separate the water from the stones in the image itself to separate the reflection amount between the water and stone areas, and feed 90% grey to the Reflection input for the water areas.

TD

Thank you so much for the interesting explanation, ThreeDee.
I didn't know about this way to use the settings in the result component.