I need a light [doubt about texture painting]

dreatern

I have a doubt about textures when the model has normal map and specular.

in this case should i worry about painting lights, glowing things, set the light direction or should i leave it completely "flat" and put these details only in specular, gloss?

nfrrtycmplx

Depends on what you're trying to achieve.

Sounds like a lack of understanding of what normal maps are for.

Baking lighting into your diffuse textures can be affective for getting AO and other semi-non-directional shadows.

Some highlights can be painted in to accent your forms, but in general your diffuse should be pretty flat if you're using normal maps.

Lots of stuff in the WIKI about this topic.

http://wiki.polycount.com/