Texture in shadow is extremely dark

Chicken Dip

Hi guys, I am having a problem with Cryengine, when my model is in the shade the metal is REALY dark but in the sun everything look ok. I dont understand why its doing this, I have both spec and I have no idea how to solve this issue, this is my first enviro try.

some screen shots:

In the Shadow:


In the Sun:


Thanks guys

e-freak

so CryEngine's lighting is heavily dependent on the use of Environment Probes (Roll Up Bar - Misc - Environment Probe) that you need to generate a cubemap and activate close to the object (similar to an "Omni Light" light source).

This will make sure that your Metal picks up reflections even when they are in the shadows. This is even more important, when you treat your materials physically correct and have black diffuse on Metal and all color information in the Spec (as it looks in your example ).

Chicken Dip

Ah, wonderfull, thanks mate... Back to crunching!