Decal smoothness slider not working

@CREAMY_IRL

Your screenshots are not identical (although quite similar), are you just expecting there to be a more pronounced effect?

I realize my screenshots aren't fantastic, but I wasn't really sure how else I could show this.

The smoothness slider is locked on 100% on the decals even when I'm actively moving the slider left and right in the advanced decal material settings, usually when it's turned down the decal loses reflectiveness and diffuses more light, and at 25-0% smoothness (which is what the satin and matte effect are), it should not reflect at all.

In this screenshot I include now, the majority of the car has a base paint in the matte effect. This is how matte should look. The front quarterpanel has a decal applied to it with the same material settings, yet it appears much more shiny. I realize there can be a slight difference between base paint effects and decal effects, but this difference is extremely drastic and I am absolutely certain this is a bug.

@CREAMY_IRL

Thank you for the clarification, appreciated.

This has also been reported in the Bug Reports section:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Vinyl-color-material-bug/td-p/6396351

Thanks for the quick reply!
Can I just quickly get a clarification for future reference on the difference between the Technical Issues and the Bug Reports topics? I apologize if I have posted in the wrong topic section.

@CREAMY_IRL

No problem. Bug reports are used to report game specific issues that are usually up to us to fix whereas tech issues are more general problems that players can often fix themselves.

Hi. i played the game 10 hour trial and noticed 2 problems related to the wraps. First thing is,the smoothness option just doesn't work in any vinyl. You can't make any matte vinyl,and that's a BIG problem for me because I really like to make matte details in my cars. The smoothness option simply don't change anything in the vinyl. And also,now you can have infinity cars,and that's really good. But what's the sense on this if you can only have 50 wraps? You should be able to have infinity wraps also. Please,try fixing this both problems fast

Just to clarify:

The screenshots look different because Creamy used the presets for Chrome, Metallic, and Matte on the stripe decals. Each of these has a different "metallic" slider value, which works properly, and so the black stripes look respectively less "deep". But they're also supposed to have different "smoothness" slider values, which doesn't work at all, so they're all just as shiny/reflective. If you just move the smoothness slider on your decals, nothing changes.

I have several issues with the new wrap editor;

- decals only can be used in a gloss or chrome finish, unlike the last game in which you could make anything. this is very disappointing and annoying, since you can't make any satin or matte decal wraps

- the mclaren 570s seems to be the only car on which you can't place decals on carbon parts. Every car is able to place decals over the carbon parts except the 570s. Also you can't place decals over the roof. In the previous game you can do this, so why is this not possible anymore ????

- Some decals seem to be removed from the previous game, one of them being a blurred circle, which was very usefull and I used this decal a lot. Why are there decals removed ??

the game is absolutely stunning, the only downside thusfar for me is the lacky wrap editor, which is more limited than in nfs 2015. please fix this, otherwise the wrap editor is pretty useless......

This bug is frustrating because it severely limits my ability to create rough looking cars. I also noticed the lack of fade decals as the OP mentioned, which is also disappointing. Seems like there's no reason not to include the same decals that 2015 had.