<li><aclass="backlink"title="Click to do a full-text search for this title"href="./ArtReference_SpecularMaps?action=fullsearch&value=linkto%3A%22ArtReference+SpecularMaps%22&context=180">ArtReference SpecularMaps</a></li>
<spanclass="anchor"id="line-2"></span><spanclass="anchor"id="line-3"></span><pclass="line874">This document will attempt to explain how to do a specular map for Quake4. This how-to can be used for both textures and skins. I took a section of both the local and diffuse maps of one of our Terminal textures and did a quickie specular map for it. I took screenshots and have included them with a short explanation. This demonstration was done after assuming the diffuse map has already been done. <spanclass="anchor"id="line-4"></span><spanclass="anchor"id="line-5"></span><pclass="line867"><strong><spanclass="u">Step 1</span>:</strong><spanclass="anchor"id="line-6"></span>Open Photoshop and then open your texture’s local and diffuse maps. Make a copy of your Local map, <strong>Grayscale</strong> it, <strong>Invert</strong> it, and then switch it back to <strong>RGB Color</strong>. Slide or copy over your grayscaled/inverted local map copy onto a new layer over your texture’s diffuse map. <spanclass="anchor"id="line-7"></span><spanclass="anchor"id="line-8"></span><pclass="line867"><imgclass="attachment"src="ArtReference_SpecularMaps_01.jpg"title="attachment:image_01.jpg"/><spanclass="anchor"id="line-9"></span><spanclass="anchor"id="line-10"></span><pclass="line867"><strong><spanclass="u">Step 2</span></strong>: <spanclass="anchor"id="line-11"></span>Hide your local map layer and select the diffuse map layer and desaturate it as shown. You can also grayscale it and then return it back to an RGB image. Either way will work. <spanclass="anchor"id="line-12"></span><spanclass="anchor"id="line-13"></span><pclass="line867"><imgclass="attachment"src="ArtReference_SpecularMaps_02.jpg"title="attachment:image_02.jpg"/><spanclass="anchor"id="line-14"></span><spanclass="anchor"id="line-15"></span><pclass="line867"><strong><spanclass="u">Step 3</span></strong>: <spanclass="anchor"id="line-16"></span>Using <strong>Color Balance</strong>, adjust the color of your diffuse map to the color range you’d like the specular map. Inject the specular map with blue tones for areas that will be lit with cool colored lighting, or make it red toned for warm lit areas. Keep the color <strong>very</strong> desaturated since too intense a specular map color will change the overall color scheme of the original diffuse map too dramatically. Please be aware that you may also be going back into your specular map later on in the process to adjust the color tone. <spanclass="anchor"id="line-17"></span><spanclass="anchor"id="line-18"></span><pclass="line867"><imgclass="attachment"src="ArtReference_SpecularMaps_03.jpg"title="attachment:image_03.jpg"/><spanclass="anchor"id="line-19"></span><spanclass="anchor"id="line-20"></span><pclass="line867"><strong><spanclass="u">Step 4</span></strong>: <spanclass="anchor"id="line-21"></span>Go to the grayscaled/inverted local map layer and turn it back on to view it. Using the grayscaled/inverted local map as a <strong>template</strong> (which will be deleted later on) and on a new layer, use your selection tools to trace out the shapes that will edged, etc. Think of a car and how the seams in the sheet metal have a highlight from the sun, etc running along their edges. It’s the same idea here... you’ll be placing a highlight along the edges of bevels and seams to help roll the edges and highlight them when light hits them. <spanclass="anchor"id="line-22"></span><spanclass="anchor"id="line-23"></span><pclass="line867"><imgclass="attachment"src="ArtReference_SpecularMaps_04.jpg"title="attachment:image_04.jpg"/><spanclass="anchor"id="line-24"></span><spanclass="anchor"id="line-25"></span><pclass="line867"><strong><spanclass="u">Step 5</span></strong>: <spanclass="anchor"id="line-26"></span>In order to slice out the areas that are circular in your selection, use the <strong>guidelines</strong> and line them up to where you wish the selection to follow. Using the <strong>Elliptical Marquee Tool</strong> and holding down <strong>Alt</s
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