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material editor question

robystar

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Hi,

Now that the major bugs are eliminated and the MCX is working fine for even more than just making a simple scenery object (congrats Arno although I have not touched the LOD creator much. nor the mass texture editor, nor the batch convert, nor the special tools either), I do have a question about FSX materials and the MCX editor:
When one uses a bump map you have the choice of using a specular map or a specular color. Using the color is easier/quicker but is it better fps wise than a specular texture map or worse?

Tks,

Rob
 
Hi Rob,

Humm, not sure if I understand completely. Bump maps and specular map is not really the same.

In general with the specular colour you can determine how reflective your material is. The advantage of the specular texture is that you have a different amount of reflection in different parts of the material, it is determined by the content of the texture. While with the colour you get the same amount everywhere.

I guess for performance the colour might be slightly better, although I do not have data on that :).
 
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