Creating Specular Maps from Maya

Tetranome

Hey! So I'm following a 3dMotive tutorial for foliage in Unreal, however I am using Maya rather than 3DS Max - which the tutorial makes use of. Essentially, I want to find a way to set up a shader network for some specular highlights on blades of grass. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks.

jfitch

Did you want to do that in ShaderFX or something? I wouldn't really recommend trying to create shaders for Unreal in Maya, simply because they don't use the same rendering agent. If you're just making a spec map in Photoshop and trying to preview it in Maya, your best bet is to use a Phong shader, but you should still import stuff into unreal and try to get a preview there instead.

Tetranome

The shader is more for baking a Specular Highlight map out of Maya to slap on my diffuse in Photoshop, for use in UE4.

Thanks for the advice though