Ah yes but allow me to point out the critical wording I used.
Here are what the three models you sent me look like when rendered side by side, using the game's stock shaders.
[spoiler][/spoiler]
Aside from the difference in the angle of the highlights from the camera they're identical. If the decay/exponent was being used in the rendering of this we would expect significant (or at least some) differences between each of these models, due to great range being used.
Unfortunately you've been lied to by a lot of information out there but in SWBFII (by default, it is possible their is some combination of material flags that trigger use of the exponent) the specular exponent is ignored and unused.
This why I used the wording I did, I've tested different specular exponents before. I've just never seen a difference in the constants passed to the shaders or in the rendered results.
All that said I do really appreciate your offer of help in the matter. If you do ever encounter two identical models save the specular exponent and they do look different I would be very interested to look at them.
Quote from: SleepKiller... that when rendered by the game's original shaders look visibly different ...
Here are what the three models you sent me look like when rendered side by side, using the game's stock shaders.
[spoiler][/spoiler]
Aside from the difference in the angle of the highlights from the camera they're identical. If the decay/exponent was being used in the rendering of this we would expect significant (or at least some) differences between each of these models, due to great range being used.
Unfortunately you've been lied to by a lot of information out there but in SWBFII (by default, it is possible their is some combination of material flags that trigger use of the exponent) the specular exponent is ignored and unused.
This why I used the wording I did, I've tested different specular exponents before. I've just never seen a difference in the constants passed to the shaders or in the rendered results.
All that said I do really appreciate your offer of help in the matter. If you do ever encounter two identical models save the specular exponent and they do look different I would be very interested to look at them.