Strange reflectivity on accessories.

[~*M'Lady*~]

Hello there I'm wondering if I can get some help solving a minor gripe.

When creating accessories I generally use the frameless glasses as the base package for projects, ordinarily everything is fine however on some of my larger meshes there's a notable 'shine' to the surface. I know how to alter the reflectivity in simpe, but when I check the material definition the reflectivity is 0. I think prehaps the fault lies in something I've done within milkshape when aligning the normals, but I'm stumped as to what.
Could anyone prehaps shed some light on the subject (:P)... pretty please.

Many Thanks in advance :anime:

In case its any help I've posted a screen cap though its might be hard to see what the problem is.
http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/1691/thingyxo5.th.jpg (http://img110.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thingyxo5.jpg)
( in case your curious the sim is supposed to be Sogeking from One Piece :P )

[ToRnado]

check to make sure that there isn't a reflection map present. look for this name: reflectionkitchenhighcontrast-envcube if you see that than delete it. it will make textures blurry and distorted.

[HystericalParoxysm]

There's more than just the one setting in the material definition that can cause annoying shine. stdMatEmissiveCoef, stdMatDiffCoef, stdMatSpecCoef, and stdMatSpecPower can all cause funky shine if they're set wrong. Honestly, I have no idea what the settings mean and just look at something that works to get an idea.

A couple suggested settings based on my peacock hat, which seems to work okay (and required quite a bit of fiddling to get to work right and non-reflectively):

stdMatDiffCoef: 0.8,0.8,0.8
stdMatEmissiveCoef: 0,0,0
stdMatSpecCoef: 0.53,0.53,0.53
stdMatSpecPower: 0

I do not know which (if any) of those might fix it, but it's a starting point for fiddling. I'm sure if anyone has any better method than "kind of compare stuff, then beat it with a wrench till it works" they'll let you know. :D

[~*M'Lady*~]

Thanks a heap :D that sorted it perfectly... just had to set spec power to 0 :giggler: I feel silly not knowing that, but that's what learnings about I guess.

Once again thank you so very much :anime:

[Dr Pixel]

There is a very good discussion of the Material Definition settings, and what they do, here:

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=35769