Specular Highlight (Bitmap)

I remember when working on N64 games it was possible to add a specular highlight to an object in the form of a bitmap image (usually just a white blob). Presumably the u\v coords were updated by the hardware like with environment mapping (perhaps it's the same thing)?

In B3D you can set shinyness for s similar effect but it's fairly crude as it uses vertices. Is there anyway to do with with a texture layer?

Fredborg did a sort of hack way of accomplishing it here:
http://www.blitzbasic.com/en/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=1928

I have used it and it does give good results, the only thing is you usually have to double up on the pollys.

Cheers, I have a look.

Solved this. Just add a second texture with the cubic environment mapping flag (128) and set its blend mode to ADD (3). Looks perfect.

What sort of texture do you have as your specular John?
It it just the "white dot" method or are you doing something else?

Well it's a cube map but yes, white dots to represent lights work well. In theory you could do a lot more (Ste's working on that now).