There's a pretty good rule of thumb when it comes to metal and that is the diffuse is generally always much much darker then the spec. On most of my weapons the diffuse is actually pretty damn dark and the spec does all the work, if you look at a lot of tuts you'll notice the same thing. At the moment your diffuse really…
ok redid my spec, and my gloss, i feel like its looking better. i added some color on the diffuse at like 2 % although some may not see it i tried to bump it up but it became to obvious. these subtle changes take foreva
thanks for the detailed reply. It looks like i have alot to work on in my spec. I think that ill add scratching to the spec to show paint variation, rather than just scraching the diffuse and see how that works. I also will upload my updated spec as it is now much different than the spec i have posted, thank you all for…