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Re: Spec Maps: The Red Headed Step Child
i'll echo EQ's comments about spec levels & not going overboard! Not everything has to be shiny, or at least flawlessly shiny! some tips: - as EQ mentioned, work Diffuse & spec simultaneously. I will sometimes take the diffuse to about 60% completion, then start honing in specular stuff. When i go full on in both however,… -
Re: Baking Spec Maps Via Max
A lot of people just multiply their AO on their spec maps rather than bake the spec with a lighting set-up. Ideally a spec map is a representation of the reflectivity values of a surface. And thats pretty much how it is in high end graphics engines and offline rendering. People put their AO in there to help bring out areas… -
can't control Bump/spec maps,basic mistake?
hey guys Im pushing to get up there with my fellow great polycounters of the next gen type...but naturally ive hit a brickwall at the bottom run of the ladder and am finding it hard to progress. My problem is none other than bump and spec maps...Im having a really hard time controlling the intensity of them. I make the… -
sulaco APC/getting the most out of my spec maps
Hey guyse, I'm currently texturing this vehicle model I built. Some of you may recognize it. Here is the normal mapped version w/ diffuse only: Understandably it looks pretty bland, as I purposefully left the metal/paint fairly deconstrasted, wanting to bring out all the dynamic detail in the spec map. Well, here it is… -
Re: Pro Spec and AO Map Creation tips [req]
Simply using a greyscale version of your diffuse map is sometimes the best way to do things, BUT ONLY FOR THROWAWAY ASSETS. The method is fast and cheap, since it doesn't require any extra work or texture memory, but it does not make the asset look as good as it could. Likewise, using a greyscale specular map (1 channel)… -
Re: tf2 specs
Ahh thanks cheese that explained a lot. - Unique UV's huh... kind of a bummer but that confirms some of the tightly packed textures I've seen. - Mirrored UV's? Do you mean overlapping or flipped/inverted UV pieces - Spec Maps. For the life of me I couldn't find where they where hiding the spec maps. But in the alpha of the… -
Normal and spec maps...
Hi everyone! I've always been under the impression that in order to really make your normal map pop, you needed a spec map too. Even for something that is mostly flat in appearance, you would need a tiny bit of spec right? Does it really make sense to have just a diffuse and normal map plugged in a shader, with no spec? Or… -
easy spec map generation.
I know What a spec map does, but is there a good way to generate a spec map that I can work off of into a custom spec map. Is there a good tutorial beside the one here at polycount about specular maps. Thanks! -
Re: spec map mask in alpha channel??
Definitely not engine-only. breakneck: since you were asking about maya, yes it's possible to do in maya as well, drag in your texture and shift-right-click drag on your shader, connect the out-alpha to the spec. I can never remember, you may have to do the out-transparency to the spec, or perhaps connect the out alpha to… -
Leather Spec Maps
I've been having trouble creating a soft leather material. I've been able to find a lot of info on how to make spec maps for hardsurface stuff but not too much on this material. From what I understand it would be a dark, mostly plain diffuse and all the work would fall on the spec map. Does anyone have any tips on how to…
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