November 17, 2011, 11:33:05 am
Also, will lumion 2 have the ability to use specular maps, that's also really important and basic stuff. Like making the ground wet, when making metal stuff, etc.
Just to avoid confusing anyone with my previous reply: Lumion uses a
single texture mask for the reflection amount and the specular lighting amount when you use the
Standard material in Lumion. In other words, you can't use 2 separate textures for the specular lighting amount and the reflection amount like you might be used to in some other 3D applications (That's how I interpreted your question above, Jay).
So, if you use the
Standard material in Lumion, you need to save your diffuse texture with a combined (greyscale) reflection/specular mask in the alpha channel as a 32-bit TGA/PNG/TIF/DDS texture and load it in the first texture slot in the
Standard material. Make sure that the
Reflection or clip slider is set to 0.
Then adjust the
Reflection strength slider in the Standard material. To put it bluntly, a low value means that the alpha mask only adds specular lighting, and a higher value means that both specular lighting
and reflections of the sky/terrain etc are added to the material. You'll often need to experiment with the reflection sliders to achieve the effect you want, eg, low
Refl. Sharpness,
Reflection Strength and
Reflection Fresnel values for leather.
This can to a certain extent make it look like there's wet patches on your materials, even though you're only using a single texture mask.