What does this mask do?

MeshMagnet

Can someone give me a brief explanation as to what this kind of mask does?

It's in the SciFiHallway map that comes free with the editor.

I understand he's using a master material template, but the squares on the masks kind of have me confused.

Fwap

The squares are probably the AO, which is in the Alpha channel.

MeshMagnet

The alpha is completely white.

ZacD

I'll have to download the project again to see, try breaking the links just to see what it does.

LMP

That texture with the squares you see is just a placeholder texture, there's a second rgba mask that's plugged into the Diffuse slot as the place holder.

MeshMagnet

LMP wrote: »

That texture with the squares you see is just a placeholder texture, there's a second rgba mask that's plugged into the Diffuse slot as the place holder.

I kinda figured that's what it was doing.

Couldn't he have just put any kind of texture in there?