Why does the Military Silver Weapons assault gun look black?

jwatte · September 22, 2014, 3:17am

I bought the Military Weapons Silver pack, and dragged the assault weapon into a level just to check it out.
This level has a “sphere environment capture” actor, and fully built lighting.
However, the material looks like shiny black plastic, not like steel or aluminum.

Is this what it’s supposed to look like?

jwatte · September 25, 2014, 9:37pm

Is there no way of getting support here? Does this weapon look black for anyone else? Is the developer reading these forums?

anonymous_user_923c79df · September 25, 2014, 9:54pm

The developer support team is very active in here and the forums, but you could also post your question into the forum, because there you mostly get a really fast answer (more community members are online there)

Mostly your problem has something to do with the reflection capture actor → add your weapon into the “starter map” and see if you can recognise any changes

Jonathan_Dorman_1 · September 26, 2014, 6:37pm

Hey .

The Default level doesn’t display the silver effects all that well. This should help:

Drop a Sky Light into the level. In the Modes tab (top left of the editor by default), type ‘Sky Light’ into the search bar and drag one into the level.
Second, drop a Sphere Reflection Capture into the level. This enables the reflections that make silver weapons look silver. Get one the same way you got the Sky Light.
Finally, go into your World Settings (hit the World Settings button at the top of the editor) and change your ‘Environment Color’ to a color other than black.
Finally, rebuild lighting.

That should get your gun shining nicely.

Regards,

Jonathan

jwatte · September 27, 2014, 3:52am

Thanks for the suggestions. As I suggested in the initial post, I already had the sphere environment map. I’ll add the other things, but those are things I’d expect be a requirement for a “chrome” look, not a “silver” look?

jwatte · September 27, 2014, 4:02am

Another thing that threw me off was that I started with the Assault Rifle, which only has nickel/chrome plating on the barrel; the rocket launcher has more pronounced areas of the stuff.
Thanks again for the help; hopefully this answer sits here until someone else has the same question! (Also, I now notice that the assault rifle isn’t really featured in the preview images for the pack, so I had nothing to compare against.)