[pyro-manic]

I'm thinking about textures for my Iron Duke destroyer, and I've come up with an idea. The only thing is, I've no idea if it's possible. So here's the question - can you create metallic textures, ie ones that look shiny, like they were bare steel or something? I suspect not, but if anyone has any ideas, I'd be grateful.

Cheers!

pyro

[aldo_14]

Use spec-maps to do so

[pyro-manic]

Oh god... That sounds nasty. How does that work then? I can't even get spec lighting to work for me (I have a Radeon X800, which won't work with the 4.4 Cat drivers). This is going to be tricky, I can tell...

[FireCrack]

hmm.. wait for FS_open to have proper pixel shader support

[Taristin]

Or use OGL to test it. Basically you'd have really white washed shine maps over the maps that look like regular steel.

[Grimloq]

make a shiney texture!

[pyro-manic]

OK, time to find some info about these specular map wossnames and how they work. I may be some time....

[Anaz]

spec maps: -shine.

They use some math that I am not familiar with to see if light is being bounced off of that point of the texture, and if it is the degree of it is combined with the spec map to create the final text. In short form: if light is there, it shows the spec map. As for steel-ish pipes, I'd reccomend using a dark grey texture with a white shine map.