Hi Gang,

I am looking for a shader or materal effect that will give me a nice reflective shine on my boats.

Does anyone have a simple reflective shader they care share or am I on own.

Thanks for any help.

Ken

I don't think you will find a "simple", out of the box effect in the shader/ffp department. This shot, of a one-off attempt, does not take into consideration the UV mapped skin of a model, there's no time put into designing the specularmap, and the maths in the vertex shader are not tweaked.

Shine would be easier that attempting a reflection+shine. But either way I think it would take someone alot of time to tune an effect like that.

If I had time I would work on it, but right now I have none to spare. That does not mean I can't in the future as I think it would be a great opportunity to learn.

Good luck! And here's a shot to encourage you!

I haven't done anything with shaders or much with materials yet but I do note that the metal effect in the Surreal editor is 'shiney' Maybe that would help?