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Subject: Specular and transparency

DigiCalimero opened this issue on Apr 24, 2005 ยท 5 posts
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DigiCalimero ( ) posted Sun, 24 April 2005 at 6:17 PM ยท edited Thu, 12 December 2024 at 2:25 AM

Is there a way in P5 (or 6) to make the specularity not show through transparent surfaces? What I mean is, say I have a plane and it's transparency mapped so only half of it is visible, but the specular shines on the entire plane, which I don't want...

OrcaDesignStudios ( ) posted Sun, 24 April 2005 at 6:25 PM

Plug the transparency map into the "Specular Value" node as well as the tranparency node. It will work like a mask, so that only the white parts of the map will have specularity.

DigiCalimero ( ) posted Mon, 25 April 2005 at 2:56 AM

Excellent! Thanks for tip :-)

caulbox ( ) posted Mon, 25 April 2005 at 4:07 AM

Great tip! Thanks also. I didn't know this either, and it's a problem I've often found to be annoying. Off to play with this idea now.

OrcaDesignStudios ( ) posted Mon, 25 April 2005 at 8:19 AM

No problem. You can use this kind of trick for a lot of different effects. I did a little tutorial on masking nodes that you can find in the tutorials section.

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