momodot opened this issue on Oct 15, 2007 · 75 posts
bagginsbill posted Wed, 17 October 2007 at 12:48 PM
Kuro - I had blended 60% of the skin and 40% of the tattoo color and the skin variation barely shows up. And I made no change to the specular. Again, specular is obvious against bright skin, not so obvious against dark tatoo. The issue is the skin variations or specular effects are TINY and only noticeable when the overall brightness is high. Consider the variation between RED 200 and 220 - its clearly visible. But put a black or other dark color tattoo there, and then the difference between 30 and 50 is almost invisible. Now consider that when blending at, say 50%, the variation is cut in half, so it is only 30 to 40. You can't see that except on really expensive monitors.
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