

Unless I spend a whole lot of time doing walkarounds of my airplanes, either on the ground or in the air and oooohing and aaaaahing at how the light catches the afternoon sun (and I do neither), whether it's "shiny or dull" in certain places is of little concern when flying from the VC. So it appears that unless you know for a fact that the material properties have been set up properly, a spec map is pretty much useless and a similar effect could be derived by simply adding a light gray alpha to the main texture? Also, and excuse me for sounding unappreciative here, lol, but it seems that for the average simmer (you decide what that is amongst yourselves), the nuances of a spec map are pretty much lost on a lot of us.
