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Title: How to make objects shiny? Post by: XPTL297 on October 05, 2006, 06:10:38 am Does anyone know how to make an object shiny?
I have a custom crown I want to make shiny but whatever I do, it doesn't work. Have tried all kinds of envcubes and nothing happens. Thanks. Title: How to make objects shiny? Post by: weetzie on October 05, 2006, 12:05:01 pm What exactly do you mean by shiny? If you mean shiny in a metallic sense, then the object needs either a false reflection in its texture or a reflection map, which needs to be added to the mesh itself.
Title: How to make objects shiny? Post by: XPTL297 on October 06, 2006, 07:26:15 am Yep, I want that it shines normally, not a false reflection. The crown used in the game is associated to a hair and use the red hair as base for the shine.
I suppose I'm talking about the reflection map that you mention. Do you know how to add it to a mesh. I have the mesh I'm messing up with but has no texture or anything related to it, so it will not appear. I'm trying a tut I read here about making a temporary texture to start with. The case is that I have another crown that I'm using as study base and it has no shine at all though it has texture related to it and appears in Body Shop and in-game. I tried first to make it shine by working with the material definitions. Though I included an item for using the water reflection envcube as basis, it seems I'm really missing something. Thanks for any help. |