Kawecki,

You do like to go on and on, eh?

It is not particularly helpful that you come into a thread about how to use the Poser specular nodes, shouting that you don't know anything about Poser specular implementation.

I wish you would stop. Since you said "I have no idea what the Hell Poser does inside", and since I'm trying to help people understand what the Hell Poser does inside, and since I know exactly what the Hell Poser does inside, and you seem in some cases to be "educating" or correcting me, all you're doing is confusing people and making my attempt to help people understand what to do with Poser more difficult.

Your explanation of the Blinn MODEL, for example is just not helpful. Your observation that the Poser nodes are misnamed is irrelevent.

It might have been interesting if you'd discussed the Torrance-Sparrow model, because it does attempt to do the silhouette effect, also known as rim lighting, and the Poser Blinn NODE implements the the Torrance-Sparrow model, not the Blinn model.

But throwing all these model and node names around doesn't help people - it confuses. I don't like it when I'm trying to help people and others come in to confuse them. I'm going to have to explain everything 3 times over now. The Poser Blinn node is not the Blinn model. Shut up about the Blinn model.

And next time you want to give a lecture that only 1/100th of the people reading this can derive any benefit from, perhaps it would be good to just show them a page where it is completely explained and let them read all about it somewhere else.

Like this page: http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/illumin/specular_highlights/blinn_model_for_specular_reflect_1.htm

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