Specularity maps for races?

[IBBoard]

The word's explanatory

I don't think it is quite as simple as "if the reflection is brighter then it's brighter", because if your specularity layer only lets 10% of it show through then it'll appear darker (or at least less obvious, which may visually be the same thing) than an identical reflection with a 50% specularity layer.

Similarly with team colouring - just because you have a pixel that's 50% grey doesn't mean it is brighter than 25% grey, because it might be over 25% dirt with a black background instead of 100% dirt

[Seaglen]

wow ok, thats definately food for thought!

stfas, thankyou for having a go at the maps.
no rush on these, was just a wondering if it would look ok.

im still playing around with fx at the mo too (am atempting to re-do some of the more annoying ork ones, i mean who ever heard of orange zzap guns!?!?)

[IBBoard]

Hopefully it's manageable food for thought! If anyone ever comes up with any better ways to explain things (like how Sandwichwarrior wrote the "for dummies" guide after he first learned to make skins) then just give me a shout. We're open to suggestions and contributions or more than just files

[stfas]

Fix for Ork's: http://files.filefront.com/OrkSpecFixra ... einfo.html

[IBBoard]

That's a full v1.1 then? Do you want me to just add that one to the site as-is?

[stfas]

yeah, as it changes the majority of the rsh files i decided to make it ver 1.1

[IBBoard]

Sorry it took a while, but the pack is now available on Skins@HWT

[stfas]

no problems, i was way to up inside a game anyways (you know how we youth are today)

[Seaglen]

hey stfas, if you ever get bored again, you fancy doing spec maps for sisters of battle vehicles, like rhino, exorcist etc?

[stfas]

yeah, well if i get on those .rsh files, so yes. (already done penitent engine, just gotta ask Radylukan for permission to release them as i don't got soulstorm.)

[IBBoard]

Do I take it you've got permission from Radylukan, since you've submitted it? Your credits say it's based on his texture, but they don't say you got permission

[stfas]

i did get permission, maybe should have made that clear (i've never released a skin that i made on another person's skin without permission)

[IBBoard]

Okay, thanks, I'll try and approve it tonight. I wasn't implying anything, just checking before I released

[edit] Sorry, didn't get a chance because of baby complaints. I'll see if I can do it tomorrow, possibly at lunch.

[stfas]

i don't really got a problem with when its released, real-life always comes before anything else.

[IBBoard]

Okay, it's now available, although I had to change the download page name slightly to stop it clashing with the original.