Question Very glossy terrain

I did some research on the matter, and apparently it may have something to do with the fact that Unity defaults to maximum glossyness or smoothness or w/e if there is no alpha channel for the texture. It has to be black for it to remove the glossyness.

This only happened after I transfered the project over to my desktop, where it was originally made in my laptop, with the textures smoothness all the way down.

As you can see wit the image i attached, the dirt looks very glossy/shiny.

So, anyone know how to use gimp or some software to add an alpha channel to the texture in order to get rid of that glossyness?

 

I've googled it, and I've played around d with gimp alpha channels, with no luck. I'm probably not doing something specific in order for it to work in unity?

Coming here was a last resort.

But I will see whwt that link provides later...

 

Excellent! Now we've got a problem. First, I don't even know if what you say is true (alpha->smoothness).

Since you provided no link I figured, hey, I have no idea, let's test it!

I made a texture using Gimp that I could put on a Terrain.

I edited the texture so it had only part of it non-alpha

I dropped it on the Terrain and lo and behold: SMOOTHNESS CONTROL! The middle area is glossy, the rest of it is matte. The word "KURT" is also glossy. Check it:




I airbrushed the central blob and then used the Text tool for KURT

Enclosed find the entire project folder, including XCF file that generates the above texture, also enclosed.

 

I will do some tests with that when I get home from work after 10pm or later on my lunch break when i remote into my desktop from work. It's 3pm where I'm at right now.

For my search results, this was the link I found most helpful for what I think is my issue. I typed in Google, "unity terrain shiny"

https://community.gamedev.tv/t/my-terrain-looks-too-shiny/22677

And I forgot to mention that the smoothness is already set to 0 on the smoothness level on the asset I'm using called "Gaia." On the texture paint tab for the terrain.

Really appreciate the help so far

 

holy S***, I think that TerrainSmoothness Unity package file you gave me might have actually fixed it somehow. its no longer smooth/shiny looking.

Thanks so much, youre a real bro.