Metal texture in Blender 2.8

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Hi,

currently, I am trying to create a metallic sphere in Blender 2.8 by using the Principled Shader, but when I render the result I only get a violet sphere. What am I doing wrong here?

TIA,

Claus

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The violet color mean , that a texture map is missing.
Probably in your environement material. Switch in your node editor. (Top left) from object to world. And replace the missing texture file.

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I did what you suggested,but I still can’t seem to figure out how to accomplish this. I even looked into a YouTube tutorial, but to no avail. Why is this so complicated? There is still the violet color & no metal texture.