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are thoses pictures from il2 are they after you play with the alfa chanels ?

I didnt play with them at all, I just set gloss and specularity in .mat files, and it sims that is posible for every object and terain textures too, so MAYBE beside plane bumpines and more lifelike surfaces, we could have even some grass or tree shine, but dont get me for that, thats way beyond my knowledge of the matter.

My idea is to have some specially prepared skins (as elephant said it) as alfa chanels cause .mat is calling on some textures as alfa chanels. problem is those skins are in unopenable tga or tgb format :x Then they would look less like toys (low poligon guilty)

More or less I dont know what I am doing, but keeping experimenting and learning

If nothing, it will be at least set of shiny ones P51, P47, B29, Liberator . . .