Hi,
Just posting a few grievances I have with some of the basic interactions with the material editor.
1. Unlock Finish. When we want to set the Finish on a material that has no Specular set, we cannot do that. But the Finish value is needed to control the Reflect regardless of the faked specular is being used or not.
2. Unlock Reflect. If Specular is set to 0, Reflect is locked. But we actually need Reflections when not using faked specular from point lights.
3. Unlock Fresnel. We cannot modify Fresnel if Reflect is set to zero, BUT if fresnel is set to a value, that value is being used even if Reflect is set to zero! Giving the false impression that it isn't used!
4. Unlock Blur Reflections. Just like Fresnel, Blur Reflections is infact being used even if Reflect is set to zero!
5. When I want to add a map to a material, I don't need to see the filebrowser before I decide on using a bitmap.
I am just going to keep adding to this post whenever I find something odd. Feel free to join in!
Thanks for your time.
6. Displacement can be linked to Displacement - How is that even possible? If Displacement is linked to Normal the icon indicating a map has been set is not working when revisiting the material.
7. Normal can be linked to normal.
WARNING! Do Not Link Displacement to Normal and Normal to displacement...
*yes, this is earth calling microStation.. please respond*
System: Win7 64bit 16GB Ram - microStation V8i SS3 08.11.09.578. + PoinTools CONNECT. - Intel i7-4800MQ CPU@2.70GHz, 4 core / 8 Logic proc.
8. In Displacement mapping. If the Blend of the first (bottom) map is NOT set Normal, the entire map turns out completely black. And it is not possible to change the Blend of the first map (Should override to Normal I presume? Yet it doesn't)