Specular Map Blender Tutorial - How to use Specular map in Blender (Blender Cycles Tutorial)

* 3 Essential Tips for Creating Any Material in Blender* - Hello Artists, this Specular map blender tutorial demonstrates how to use specular map in blender. In this blender cycles tutorial, you will learn how to create specular map in photoshop and then we will see how to use specular map in blender. We are going to use Cycles rendering engine for this tutorial. This specular map blender tutorial demonstrates first what is a specular map/reflection map. A quick simple presentation on specular maps, so you will get the idea before watching the actual tutorial on specular map. Then, we are going to see how to create specular map in photoshop. By using the photoshop, you will get the idea of how to make specular map from diffuse texture.The specular maps can be manually created using brushes. But for this basic tutorial, we will only see how to convert a diffuse image into specular map. After that, we are going to see How to use specular map in blender(Using cycles). We are going to make a bump map setup first, and then i will show you the node setup for the specular map. The node setup is simple, it just looks like a big network. I will then show you how to control the amount of specularity/glossiness/shininess after setting up nodde setup for specular map. After watching all steps in this Specular map blender tutorial, you will have a proper knowledge of using specular maps, and how to use them inside any application. In the end, we will look at some very important...