Maya Mapping Technical

badmouse

Hi guys, im working with maya for 6 years and in game develop for 2 years.

I want to lern more about types of mapping and i heard that in Polycount are the best

Im used to use Diffuse, Transparency, Normal map and a little bit of Specular but i heard in other sites about "Gloss map" and "TM" map!?

I don't know what's "TM" any of you guy know what mean "TM" map ? maybe Transparency Map ?

and about Gloss map i found this in the Net. [It's not my model]





looks pretty cool right? Is using this map



Where from the top-left is Diffuse, Specular, Normal Map and Gloss Map.

In Maya, where i suppose to link the Gloss Map to the shading ?

thanks

CheeseOnToast

For a phong shader, link it to "cosine power". For a Blinn, specular eccentricity. Before you do that though, try playing around with the slider to find out roughly what level of gloss you want.

badmouse

Thanks CheeseOnToast

Now other of my question is how to know what color use in specular map? en the case of this sofa is like blue/green

kodde

Welcome to polycount.

http://wiki.polycount.com/SpecularColorMap

The "Why so blue?" link at the bottom covers your question quite well.