3D Creative December 2015

3DCREATIVE MAGAZINE | ISSUE 124
Making and adding the ship’s specular map
Specular map: As we go we can create
04 and add to our specular map. Firstly,
under the Channel menu, create a new channel
with the name ‘Specular’.
Open this channel stack and drag it across to the
left of the screen. Keeping this open, return to
your Diffuse stack and duplicate our painted AO
layer, then drag this layer across to the Specular
stack. When you click the Specular shader again
you will see what’s contained within it.
Next, to increase the specular difference between
objects, create a layer within the Specular stack,
fill the entire surface with black and reduce the
layer opacity to 50%. Next we need to create a
mask stack to this layer.
By painting on this layer with black or white paint,
we can remove or add the black layer. Think of it
as “the lighter it is, the more specular it is.”
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