Sun Sep 14, 2003 2:27 am
I haven't personally had any real problems with flaring textures, unless you think that screenshot I posted was a bad flare (I like that effect). I have seen some models that looked bad from certain angles though, both original models and user created ones. I think the big problem with a few of them was the normals (smoothing groups). Anyway the point I was trying to make was too not try so hard to make the texture itself look glossy especially if its causing you problems by distorting details every time you add a layer as you described. But then if I completely misunderstood your post you can just ignore me, I'll go away eventually 
I didn't take it as a flame, I'm too old and senile for that... anyway, good luyck with the tutorial, I wrote one of those for skinning way back when the first Quake was new and some people just don't, won't, or don't want to get it. Another useful tutorial would be one teaching the modelers how to do good UV maps so the artists don't have to 
