specular guide

hula

Hey all,
Is there a 'grey scale guide' or something like that that shows what shades of grey represent different materials in a specular map? ie, metal, wood?

txtx
cccp

Xenobond

Yeah. It's less about what value represents what material and more about the difference in value between one material and the next.

ie- most metal would have a higher specular value than most wood.

Ryan Clark

Are you limited to greyscale?

To distinguish metal from wood, color can be very useful.

Generally speaking, metal textures have like-colored specmaps while wood textures have grayscale or opposite-colored specmaps.

See here for some discussion about the use of color in specmaps: http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=251847&an=0&page=1#Post251992