Highlights?

[andyboy]

I'm scratching my head over the reflection layer in the material editor. I can't seem to get a good, bright highlight on a surface. I've tried monkeying with the values in the highlight glossiness and reflection glossines spinners, but can't seem to get any good results. I noticed that the matte plastic material supplied with the software has a fresnel effect in the highlight glossiness channel, so I dropped one into my material. I finally got a bright highlight, but it's tiny tiny. I don't understand this material model.

Can anyone clarify?

Thx

Andy

[joe_b]

Highlights?

I have noticed this as well. I will double check that we are setting up our materials properly, because I believe we used to have larger highlights than we presently do.

What kind of lighting do you have in the scene?

[andyboy]

Highlights

I have been trying it using default lights on a couple of primitives (sphere, cube, torus). I don't see a highlight in the preview window either, though.

[joe_b]

Highlights?

Ok, things are bit hectic at the moment, but I have added the highlights to my list of things to double-check. I'll let you know if I come across anything.

[andyboy]

highlights

thanks Joe

[joe_b]

Highlights?

Sorry - I forgot to check back in here. Basically what I came to find was glossy fresnel reflections do generally have small highlights. You can work around this problem however by layering a couple reflection layers on top of each other. Have a non-white glossy reflection on top of a non-glossy fresnel layer and you should have the best of both worlds. Let me know if you want me to post an example vismat