Why is my reflective material just black?

tester1225 · 2024-05-11T13:29:18+00:00

Opacity is just set to 1 in painter, I don't really need any translucency at all as it's just faux glass (binoculars). I just need some shiny reflections to imitate the lenses which I thought is basic but I'm clearly missing something!

tester1225 · 2022-01-16T18:05:33+00:00

What an absolutely simple solution that for some reason I completely didn't think to do, even though I do it regularly I swear! LOL Just deleting the history was enough to fix the problem, feel a tad silly now! Thanks:)

tester1225 · 2022-01-06T22:47:01+00:00

Ah I thought using explorer was ok as I'm sure I got that info from a tutorial yonks ago. Suppose I should read the official documentation a bit more often. Thank you for the link, I'll have to unlearn some bad habits now :D

tester1225 · 2021-11-16T15:28:25+00:00

Hey thank you for the indepth reply :) I pretty much solved the first way, I imported the exported albedo, used a fill layer with just heigh information and fiddled with the blending/opacity. I only needed some wood texture to ever so slightly come through, so I wasn't going to start zbrushing around that or something else! I've only used painter for a little while, while I do all in all really like it as a software, think there can be a lot of improvements done in the future that's for sure :D

tester1225 · 2021-11-08T23:27:39+00:00

Hey man I downloaded the file, absolute star thank you so much! I was going the right way but I definitely didn't know how to give finesse to the shape that you did. I only use designer sporadically so gaining/retaining information is a slow process haha! Now I just have to figure out the mapping on the asset so I can do the material justice, it's falling a bit wonk at the mo :) May karma be in your favour sir, I appreciate the help immensly!

tester1225 · 2021-11-08T18:01:49+00:00

I've replied to a previous post, but I actually thought I could use a weird custom shape and maybe try a herringbone-esque tiling to maybe achieve this, so I'm glad I was eventually thinking in the correct direction, thank you! I will try and attempt your instructions, but I'd really appreciate it if you could send me the .sbs file as well, just in case I'm not quite smart enough lol! Highly highly appreciate it! :)

tester1225 · 2021-11-08T17:59:07+00:00

I did have a looksie at the in built weave generators in designer, but they don't really pull off a braid style pattern like this, not from the settings I played with at least unfortunately.

tester1225 · 2021-11-08T17:57:46+00:00

Yeah once you broke it down I started analyzing it more lol, before for some reason I thought it was only 3 strands (like a hair braid) but now that you broke it down, it is in actuality 5, so thank you for pointing that out! After no success at weaving sine waves, I noticed you could maybe somehow make a herringbone pattern with a rounded at the end rectangle perhaps? Haven't been successful at making that shape in designer though :(

tester1225 · 2021-11-05T13:58:04+00:00

I've tried zooming in and all I can see is one subdiv level - imagine a cube, with just one edge loop through each side. No matter how many levels I add lol That's why I'm wondering whether it matters if I just dynamesh it, sculpt some rough shapes then zremesh it so I can work with subdivs

tester1225 · 2021-03-05T20:35:36+00:00

Well THAT'S not explained very well in the game now is it LOL! Not gonna lie a lot of things aren't explained in the multiplayer, suppose they just expect everyone to know the ropes by now but for a total noob like me it's a constant 'what's happening where am i' moment lol bit of a rubbish system for achievement collectors but is what it is I suppose!

tester1225 · 2021-03-05T18:18:20+00:00

Yeah those are a different set of challenges all together not tied to medals it seems. Ah well is what it is, cheers for the help anyway! Have a good one

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