Gang, I need help with getting a lathe effect on flat or circular primitives.  What I'm trying to do is simulate a sheet metal effect.  In 3D World magazine, they use Anisotropic to get the effect.  If I give a box a slight curve and apply the node, its partially successful.  However, I want to do it on a flat surface (I'm building a virtual radio system face plate and control knobs etc). As anyone been successful at getting this machine milling effect?  Plutom      

May be you can post the exemple of the magazine ...

Yep, that's it.  Strange, in the texture shaded mode, I have it.  However, after it is rendered in the Production mode, it disappears unless I bend it via magnet.

Another tip I'd offer to you for lathed metal would be to head on over o runtimedna, and look in the node cult forum... bagginsbill worked out a procedural metal effect there which works quite nicely... let me find the link for you:

http://www.runtimedna.com/mod/forum/messages.php?forum_id=92&ShowMessage=314074

I just looked at it, and it's more focused on brshed metal than lathed, so it may not be the final effect yo're looking for... but still, the node cult is a good place to look for procedural solutions like this.

JonTheCelt

Thanks guys, you help me resolve my problem.  I had a combination of problems including the ye olde problem of Poser functions shutting down.  When I came back this morning and brought my system back on line--I got everything.  Did down load Bagginsbill's info from runtimedna.com-now I need to digest that info.  Again folks, you helped me a lot.  Still need to add some fancy art work to the face plate via PSP.  Plutom