Material Color Problems

[mss]

On an untextured node, loaded from .obj file..

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        node->getMaterial(0).ColorMaterial = irr::video::ECM_NONE;
        node->getMaterial(0).SpecularColor = irr::video::SColor(255,0,0,0);
        node->getMaterial(0).AmbientColor = irr::video::SColor(255,0,0,0);
        node->getMaterial(0).DiffuseColor = irr::video::SColor(255,50,50,50);
 

Which gets me this (the knob and switch you see):



Setting the color material ECM_NONE is the only thing that gave me any control of colors. Emissive still seems to work fine. However I'm finding it very difficult and non-intuitive to change diffuse and ambient color.

I have no idea why the smaller meshes are reacting so poorly to the lighting as compared to the rest of the meshes in the scene, it makes no sense to me. Even after overriding the colors, they still show up wrong.

I am using irrlicht from the trunk of about a week ago.. so.. will update it and recompile. But I swear when 1.8 released, lighting went to crap. Any confirmations elsewhere?

[mss]

CONTINUING ON..

And if I set the color values to RIDICULOUSLY low values,

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                node->getMaterial(0).ColorMaterial = irr::video::ECM_NONE;
        node->getMaterial(0).SpecularColor = irr::video::SColor(255,0,0,0);
        node->getMaterial(0).AmbientColor = irr::video::SColor(255,4,4,4);
        node->getMaterial(0).DiffuseColor = irr::video::SColor(255,5,5,5);
 

I can come up with some decent-looking colors:



But that's using the values 4 and 5!!!! You would think the spectrum would be a bit more spread out...

[hybrid]

Did you scale the buttons up or down? This problem is often raised due to wrongly scaled normals.

[mss]

Hybrid.. actually... I do scale the controls down. I always recalculate the normals for mesh because they are bad when I load the .obj file.

So I changed the scale to 1,1,1 and set the materials to default and it looked better. But how do I normalize normals on a node after it is scaled?

Or should I just go back and scale everything so that I don't need to use scale in code? I'd rather just use the current fix I have, really. It's simplest.

[CuteAlien]

You can set NormalizeNormals to true in the materials.

[mss]

Tried that. Can't remember the outcome.. I think nothing happened. Would have to try it again to be sure.