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Subject: How do I get a chrome effect?

kagem opened this issue on Dec 18, 2000 ยท 11 posts
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kagem ( ) posted Mon, 18 December 2000 at 9:13 AM ยท edited Thu, 23 January 2025 at 5:20 PM

I'm pretty much a 3d newbie and I was wondering how do I go about getting a chrome effect? Like for swords and other metals. Do I have to make a Reflection map, or can I just make it by the material controls. Also I'm trying to achieve something like this: http://www.hardcoregaming.com/vf3/images/top-pic1.gif How would I go about making the features, like the nose and eyes, a bit less prominent and look more robotish. Thanks for any help!

ScottA ( ) posted Mon, 18 December 2000 at 10:15 AM

Attached Link: http://www.gwz.org/propsguild/

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You mean chrome like this? JeffH. posted a few chrome shaders to the Props guild. That's what I used. ScottA

thgeisel ( ) posted Mon, 18 December 2000 at 10:18 AM

There were some chromereflektionmaps in poser free stuff about 3 month ago

JeffH ( ) posted Mon, 18 December 2000 at 10:20 AM

I'm assuming you mean chrome in Poser4? Set the material color to Black, Highlight to White, then in the Reflection map section load a small pic of blue sky scene. Almost anything will do, beach, mountains, desert, as long as it has a blue sky and maybe a few white clouds floating by. -JH.

JeffH ( ) posted Mon, 18 December 2000 at 10:21 AM

The PropsGuild is down with bandwidth toubles the last I heard.

kagem ( ) posted Mon, 18 December 2000 at 10:39 AM

Thanks everyone that's exactly what I wanted. Thank you so much!

polartech ( ) posted Mon, 18 December 2000 at 2:57 PM

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Ambient colour black; Reflective colour white; Multiply through Lights and Object Colour unchecked. A yellow-ish ref map gives a gold metallic look...

kagem ( ) posted Mon, 18 December 2000 at 6:15 PM

wow, very nice. Is there anyway to have items in the scene reflect onto the chrome surfaces automatically? or can that only be done with reflection maps?

D0GG0D ( ) posted Mon, 18 December 2000 at 7:38 PM

Heck with the texture, how do I get the helmet.

JeffH ( ) posted Tue, 19 December 2000 at 5:35 AM

Render a pic of your scene with a wide angle lens minus the OBJ that will be chrome, flip it, then use that as a reflection map. Experiment with it.

kagem ( ) posted Tue, 19 December 2000 at 11:28 AM

Great, thanks for the help Jeffh, really appreciate it.

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