Specular highlights for translucent materials

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At the moment, specular highlights for translucent materials (i.E. glass, water) doesn’t work.

Are you guys working on this? Because this is a serious showstopper for some projects.

Otherwise UE4 rocks.

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Epic has said that they’d like to make significant improvements to translucency, but that they won’t be doing it in the near future.

You can get more detailed information from the dev posts in this question: Reflections/specularity on Translucent materials - Rendering - Unreal Engine Forums

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In the meantime dont forget to set Translucency Lighting Model to TLM_Surface and play with Specular and Metallic values to boost reflections.

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Yes I read that somewhere.
The thing is, reflections are only one part for believable glass/water. You still need the specular highlights.

Let’s hope Epic get’s this fast done.

Thanks to you both!

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I’ve made a trick for specular light. If you have only a few objects that need specular light and you are willing to make some custom materials for them, this can solve your needs: