Skylight and shininess issue

[Mighty_Marcos]

Hi again!

I know that due the referred lighting, the UE4 can’t make something like lighting channels, so I can’t make an object ignore the Skylight (or viceversa). My problem is that my Skylight is creating something like a huge white reflection in a marble material I was trying to use. It took me some time and research, but I’m quite sure that it has to be the Skylight.

If i look at the material directly it looks fine:

But if I put my camera near the object, then it reflects what I think is the Skylight.

Without Skylight this does not happen, and the material is too simple to be the problem (mainly just a base color, a normal map, and a few values). I know that if I increase the roughness, that white reflection should decrease, but it would also decrease the reflection of the enviroment, so it’s not an option.

Anny suggestions?

[anonymous_user_835301aa]

It looks like you have some reflections but do you have a reflection capture actor in your scene? Generally any material that has some metalness needs a reflection capture (either sphere or box) actor in the level near it so it can sample from it. Without this the material just takes the color of a light (I think). Try adding a sphere reflection capture actor.

[Mighty_Marcos]

It worked perfectly!

Thank you!!