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A '''Specular Material''' is one of Rockstar's [[List of RW section IDs#Rockstar.27s_Custom_Sections|custom sections]]. In [[GTA San Andreas]] it is used to store material information for specular lighting. The typical location in a SA [[model file|dff]] section hierarchy is ''[[Clump (RW Section)|Clump]] > [[Geometry List (RW Section)|Geometry List]] > [[Geometry (RW Section)|Geometry]] > [[Material List (RW Section)|Material List]] > [[Material (RW Section)|Material]] > [[Extension (RW Section)|Extension]] > Specular Material.
 
A '''Specular Material''' is one of Rockstar's [[List of RW section IDs#Rockstar.27s_Custom_Sections|custom sections]]. In [[GTA San Andreas]] it is used to store material information for specular lighting. The typical location in a SA [[model file|dff]] section hierarchy is ''[[Clump (RW Section)|Clump]] > [[Geometry List (RW Section)|Geometry List]] > [[Geometry (RW Section)|Geometry]] > [[Material List (RW Section)|Material List]] > [[Material (RW Section)|Material]] > [[Extension (RW Section)|Extension]] > Specular Material.
The Specular Material section is exclusive to San Andreas and Manhunt. In San Andreas, the use is further limited to vehicles; putting a Specular Material extension on a building object will not yield the same results. This section can also be found in Manhunt files, but it's not used by game engine.
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The Specular Material section is exclusive to San Andreas and Manhunt. To use a specular material, the rendering pipeline that is responsible for rendering the object must support specular materials. This is true by default for vehicles, but not for buildings. To hook specularity into the rendering pipeline, the [[Pipeline Set (RW Section)|pipeline]] extion for the geometries [[Atomic (RW Section)|atomic]] needs to be changed.
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==Data Layout==
 
==Data Layout==
   4b - FLOAT    - Specular Level
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   4b - FLOAT    - Specular Level (0.0-1.0)
 
  24b - CHAR[24] - Specular Texture Name, see below
 
  24b - CHAR[24] - Specular Texture Name, see below
==Annotations==
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; Specular Level : 0.0 is no spec and 1.0 is full spec. Values can go past 1.0, but may produce unrealistic results.
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On the PC and Xbox versions of the game a specular texture is not used. On the PS2 however, it is used as a second reflection map. The string is null terminated, and aligned to 4 byte boundaries with extra zeros appended.
; Specular Texture Name : On the PC and Xbox versions of the game this texture is not used. On the PS2 however, it is used as a second reflection map. The string is null terminated, and aligned to 4 byte boundaries with extra zeros appended.
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== See also ==
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* [[Material (RW Section)|Material]]
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* [[Material Effects PLG (RW Section)|Material Effects]]
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* [[Reflection Material (RW Section)|Reflection Material]]
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* [[UV Animation PLG (RW Section)|UV Animation PLG]]
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* [[Texture (RW Section)|Texture]]
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* [[Geometry List (RW Section)|Geometry List]]
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* [[RenderWare_binary_stream_file|RW file format specification]]
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[[Category:GTA_3]]

Revision as of 14:42, 6 May 2016

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A Specular Material is one of Rockstar's custom sections. In GTA San Andreas it is used to store material information for specular lighting. The typical location in a SA dff section hierarchy is Clump > Geometry List > Geometry > Material List > Material > Extension > Specular Material.

The Specular Material section is exclusive to San Andreas and Manhunt. To use a specular material, the rendering pipeline that is responsible for rendering the object must support specular materials. This is true by default for vehicles, but not for buildings. To hook specularity into the rendering pipeline, the pipeline extion for the geometries atomic needs to be changed.

Data Layout

 4b - FLOAT    - Specular Level (0.0-1.0)
24b - CHAR[24] - Specular Texture Name, see below

On the PC and Xbox versions of the game a specular texture is not used. On the PS2 however, it is used as a second reflection map. The string is null terminated, and aligned to 4 byte boundaries with extra zeros appended.

See also