No specular with indirect lights

[Andrew W]

Indirect lights, by definition have no direction to them, therefore they cannot create specular highlights on a surface since they are not associated with a opint in space or a particular direction vector.

You should use spotlights or pointlights if you want specular highlights, or a reflection map; after all a specular highlight is simply the reflection of a lightsource.

Hope that helps,

Andrew

[pika]

Thank you very much for such a quick response!
Your answer saved me a couple of hours for trying to figure out how I would be able
to get specular highlights with indirect lights.

Gracias!

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