Noise sampled forty times more often along x than along y gives long thin streaks: the brush marks. A slow sine across y, shifted by those streaks, is the reflection of a light sliding over the surface. Grey in, chrome out.
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Metal on its own artboard in the library file, with the ShaderQuad node and the WGSL, Inputs for Brush, Speed. Copy the artboard into any Rive file.
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The Noise shader with the GPU Canvas node wired and the WGSL inside. Drop it into any Rive file and see how a shader lives there.
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