3D Graphics Programming with QuickDraw 3D 1.5.4

Specular Color

Labels

ASCII: SpecularColor
Binary: kspc ( = 0x6b737063 )

Data Format



 
ColorRGB            specularColor

specularColor: A structure having three fields: red, green, blue. The permitted values of these fields are 32-bit floating-point numbers in the closed interval [0, 1], where 0 is the minimum value and 1 is the maximum value.

Data Size

Description

Specular color is the color of the light of a specular reflection (specular reflection is the type of reflection that is characteristic of light reflected from a shiny surface). A specular color attribute specifies the color of the light specularly reflected by the objects to which it is assigned. Note that the diffuse color and specular color assigned to the same object can differ.

Parent Hierarchy

Element, attribute.

Parent Objects

Attribute sets. A specular color object always has a parent object.

Child Objects

None.

Example



 
Container (

    AttributeSet ( )

    DiffuseColor ( .1 .1 .1)            # near-black

    SpecularColor ( 1 1 1 )             # white

)