How to make specular map

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The sphere map image for the texture map of the highlight is computed by rendering a highly tessellated sphere, lighted with a specular highlight.

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This technique interpolates the sphere-mapped coordinates of the reflection vector instead of the highlight itself, and thus a much more accurate sampling of the highlight is achieved. R l ) nįor each polygon in the object, the reflection vector is computed at each vertex.