Materials

ive been struggeling to add a shiney looking metal material to an object im working on, but it just ends up looking like plastic. ive thought about adding a mirror material to every engine component with diffirent reflection rate, but thought it would be to inconvenient. i have read abit about materials for the game and cannot seem to find what im looking for. Thank you!

 

hmm, i just tested it out and im a bit unsure what you meant by "alpha channel" I tried opening the files in paint.net but they wouldnt, making it hard to see what you meant.
but from what i understand you are supposed to apply a null to every texture (Diffuse, Noraml and Specular), and that makes it fully chromed, you then make the texture file transparent/see thorugh depending on how much chrome you need?
well i tried doing that and i got the same results as earlier. i also tried removing every texture and just keep the nulls, this made it completly white, but still not chromed.

Here is the code and file:
singleton Material(vr6_intake)
{
mapTo = "vr6_intake";
diffuseColor[1] = "1 1 1 1";
diffuseMap[1] = "intake_texture.dds";
specularMap[0] = "intake_texture_s.dds";

specularPower[1] = "128";
diffuseColor[1] = "1 1 1 1";

diffuseMap[0] = "vehicles/common/null.dds";
specularMap[0] = "vehicles/common/null.dds";
normalMap[0] = "vehicles/hatch/hatch_n.dds";
};
singleton Material(vr6)
{
mapTo = "vr6";
diffuseColor[1] = "1 1 1 1";
diffuseMap[1] = "vr6.dds";
normalMap[1] = "vr6_n.dds";
specularMap[1] = "vr6_s.dds";
specularPower[1] = "128";
diffuseColor[0] = "1 1 1 1";

diffuseMap[0] = "vehicles/common/null.dds";
specularMap[0] = "vehicles/common/null.dds";
normalMap[0] = "vehicles/hatch/hatch_n.dds";
};