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Jump back to quoted post17 Jul 2016, 18:56 PMTiger Baron

Dude it's not about you or me trying it it's about knowing how they're doing it so we can get to the bottom of this, we'll find out sooner or later anyway, I just hope Relic find it first and fix it.

Jump back to quoted post27 Jul 2015, 21:10 PMF.X.

I'll answer my own question here in case it helps anyone else who runs into the same thing:

For the most part I've been painting on just the diffuse (*_dif.tga) maps. I use the mod builder to burn them and it fills in the spec, gloss, and normal maps with whatever the defaults are for each vehicle and that's been working out just fine up until now. But there is something broken with the default spec, gloss, normal set for the IS-2. I can't tell if it's one or more of the maps, or how they were burned, but the result is that if you just use the default it will have lifted/faded values which can drastically alter the look of your skin, particularly for contrast and dark values.

The solution is that for the IS-2 you *must* burn the spec, gloss and normal maps, even if you are not modifying them. You will end up with two burn settings: one for *_dif.tga, and another for *_nrm.tga, *_gls.tga, and *_spc.tga. The settings for the latter are shown in this thread about editing normal maps.