Base Reflection in "Architectural Material"?

[irakli_san]

Does anyone know, what's "Base Reflection" in Architectural is for? Can't find in documentation.

[Hirazi Blue]

Sorry for the late reply.
This just showed up on the Softimage Mailing List. It's a quote from Zap Anderson and the thread can be found here

This is a 2nd glossy layer. It saves you having to blend materials to just have 2 layers of glossiness. I didn't implement it and I would probably have implemented it slightly differently. It's great for doing, oh, stuff like Iron Man suits

Basically, "base reflectivity" is a percentage (0-1 range) of how much of the "reflectivity" is handled by this layer.

0 means all reflectivity comes from the normal reflection controls (above this). 1 means all reflectivity comes from these reflection controls. 0.5 means a 50/50 mix of the two.

That's basically it.

Hope it still helps a little... ;)

[irakli_san]

so its like primary/secondary specular thing when doing car paint materials?

thanks for your reply