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1. Noob question: different materials on game characters

   

   Topic by DietCoke · Aug 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   So if I have one texture map for a whole character, but I want some parts of it to have really sharp specular (metal/plastic), and some parts to have diffuse, soft specular (skin), can I just use multiple materials but one map? Or is the renderer going to load the map multiple times for each material? Thanks in advance!

2. Re: Noob question: different materials on game characters

   

   Reply by Quack! · Aug 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   What engine? A simple setup would be diffuse, normal, specular(brightness), gloss(size). That is 4 texture maps. Once each texture is loaded up they can be instanced around without using up more memory. With this you will be able to define your materials as you said. [edit] Beat to the punch.

3. Re: Noob question: different materials on game characters

   

   Reply by kio · Aug 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   well thats what specular and glossiness maps are for - these control your specular behaviour. so you dont have just one texture - in most parts you will end up with a diffuse texture (the colour map), a normalmap texture (geometry fake map), and specular&glossines textures. just browse the polycount wiki to get some basic…