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Jul 17^th, 2009 at 11:37am

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I am a pretty good repainter, and I would like to learn how to make my repaints reflective, can anyone help me with this?
I am using DXTbmp.

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Reply #1 - Jul 17^th, 2009 at 9:45pm

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That's fairly easy. Black is mirror finish and white is no shine whatsoever.

Are you meaning that you would like to know how to create a decent reflection map?

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Reply #2 - Jul 18^th, 2009 at 1:51pm

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I think so, how do I add an alpha in DXTbmp, I don't want to mess it up!

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Reply #3 - Jul 19^th, 2009 at 4:40am

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When you are in DXTBmp, open the main texture. Now click on "Alpha" and then "Import Alpha Channel". Navigate to the correct file and select it. The alpha channel file will appear in the small window in the upper righthand corner. Now go to "File-->Save As-->Extended Bitmap" and select the appropriate file format. This is usually DXT3 format, but could be a number of options.

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Reply #4 - Jul 19^th, 2009 at 2:19pm