quietrob posted at 7:49PM Tue, 24 September 2019 - #4363864

SamTherapy posted at 11:02AM Tue, 24 September 2019 - #4363851

Afrodite-Ohki posted at 5:59PM Tue, 24 September 2019 - #4363810

The content was made by vendors - it would have been up to each individual vendor to know about this.

I know; I'm saying Rendo/Bondware ought to specify that materials settings meet certain requirements, over and above not making your computer explode.

A good starting point would be "If any of your materials have Reflection_lite_Mult or other useless/pointless/outright daft stuff included, we'll come round and nail your ears to the door".

So you are saying that this parameter has no value? Did it have value before? I would hate to see my older stuff rendered and be forced to retexture, in essence, fix what isn't broken. Clarification is needed for us texturing newbies.

It never really had any value, TBH. You don't need to retexture anything if all you're doing is getting rid of that parameter. Just uncheck it. It was never any good, really. Was a fudge from Poser 4 days, which apparently made "reflected" light look more realistic. There were no reflections in P4 - unless you're a smartass and could figure out a way to fake it - so it was a moot point anyhow.

The old idea of plugging a diffuse texture into Specular was never a good idea, either. All it ever did was make things look bad. Likewise fake reflection maps. Anything with fake reflections should be taken out and shot.

As for making a bump map from a monochrome skin texture, just... don't. It's wrong. Wronger than a big bag of very wrong things in the wrong place at the wrong time. Volumes, nay, whole libraries have been written about why it's wrong and you just shouldn't do it. Better to use Snarly's EZSkin and let it produce a procedural bump. If, however, you're making a hard surface model, there's nothing to stop you making a bump map from scratch by using a bit of common sense.

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