darknewt opened this issue on Apr 13, 2015 · 17 posts
bagginsbill posted Tue, 14 April 2015 at 9:12 AM
Most of the newer textures, or EZ Skin textures go to Alt Diffuse, which is the same thing as going to Ambient with the level set at 1.
While this statement is true, it's not the whole truth. You don't get glowing from ambient or alt_diffuse if you have a lighting node plugged in. The channel is presenting what you plug in. If you plug in a constant, then you get a constant. But we're not doing that with alt_diffuse. We're plugging in the scatter and blinn nodes, so that the lighting modulates the output. So - using alt_diffuse incorrectly can be the cause of glow, but it is not the cause here. Since we're all dealing with multiple unknowns here, don't add disinformation or it will become a wildly unproductive conversation.
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