Highlight Glossiness ?

[bernhard]

How can you control the Highlight Glossiness ?
Please see the image below:





the material looks right in the mat-editor, but it doesn't take effect in the render.

thx for every little info,
bernhard

[Klonsemann]

Maybe reflection glossiness is disabled in Renderdialog=>global switches ?

[percydaman]

You need an actual light in the scene.

[bernhard]

it should be there... I mean the glossy highlight relfection...

but for some reason I can't figure out, it isn't....
well.. maybe the actual light source from the HDRI is so intense, that it is killing the glossy highlight reflection... hmmmm

by the way: say hi to Richard, John and everybody else !!!

[percydaman]

turn off trace reflections on your mat and see if you see a highlight. I recreated your setup, and I could see one just fine. With a light that size, I would think something would show up.

[dlparisi]

I can't even see the light doing anything, it looks like its just the dome/sky light lighting up the scene. Are you sure "lights" isn't unchecked in the global options.

[natty]

Your glossy reflections are set to 1 .. meaning that you wont get a highlight, but just reflections, set it below 1 ... 0.95 or something..

[Codi]

Highlight Glossiness is a way to "fake" glossy reflections producing much faster results. But it needs a point light (i.e. omni or directional max lights) to work, it doesn't produce gloss from environment (HDR or VRaySky) or area lights.

[stevesideas]

By the looks of it you are only using a hdri to light your scene. You will need a direct light or sun to create that type of specular highlight..

[Codi]

Oops, just tested, seems that area lights can produce highlight glossy too ...

Yeah, maybe the intensity of the area light doesn't match the scene environment, I don't notice any shadow produced by the light on your first render, try upping it.