Is there a way to make textures less reflective?

[Robot3x]

I'm using a blue tile texture for the floor and it looked great without specular, but when I stuck in cubemaps and built them, the white walls I have reflect so much off the tile that you can barely see the tile pattern. The floor just looks like a giant hovering white blob now.

Is there maybe a trick I can do to dampen the reflectivity of the floor? Or am I just going to have to bite the bullet and find another texture?

 

[AgeNt_]

If I am correct I think there are two types of that texture (if I know which one you are talking about) and one doesn't have any specularity on it. If not, you can simply make a new .vmt to make a separate texture without any specularity

 

[Sergis]

write your own .vmt

 

[tyler]

If you are compiling with HDR you might just need to adjust your HDR levels

 

[Robot3x]

I decided to make my life easier and just choose a different texture. I had been using that other texture so long I had gotten married to it.

Another question, what are degenerate faces and how do they affect things? I have one and have been hunting it for the past two hours, but it hasn't caused any problems, so I don't know if it's worth looking for.