Specular highlight on transparent material

[ashley]

Godot Version

v4.4.1

Question

Is it possible to have specular highlights on otherwise transparent materials? I thought I could simply set the ALPHA to 1 and the ALBEDO to 0 and then use blend_add, but I see don’t see specular highlight when I shine a flashlight at my window. Is my direct specular being multiplied by my ALBEDO? My METALLIC is set to 0 so that shouldn’t happen, correct? (indeed the indirect specular created by my reflection probe comes through just fine).

More specifically, I’m trying to create a glass material. Originally I downloaded it from the assetlib, and while it has the right idea I’m pretty sure the implementation is incorrect (the fresnel term is being used backwards). (EDIT: nevermind I made a mistake) I have created a simplified version for testing purposes.

shader_type spatial;
render_mode blend_add, cull_back, diffuse_burley, specular_schlick_ggx;

void fragment() {
	ALBEDO = vec3(0);
	ALPHA = 1.;
	METALLIC = 0.;
	SPECULAR = 1.;
	ROUGHNESS = 0.;
}

But alas, despite doing blend_add with alpha 1, direct specular is still nowhere to be seen.

[jesusemora]

Hi, sorry if this is too late.
I made some very simple tests and it works, but at a roughness of 0.0 the specular highlights are very very tiny and difficult to see.
set the roughness to something slightly higher like 0.11 and that will make them more noticeable.

[ashley]

I don’t know how you found this question, but thanks for taking the time to reply! This was quite some time ago so something might have changed since, but I tried your suggestion and indeed it would seem as though my problem was that the specular highlight was too small. Thanks again for your reply. Cheers.