Attached Link: Glossy materials with true Fresnel effect using matmatic

Andy (and the piano) are sporting the BBGloss accurate Fresnel shader, available and discussed at the attached thread link.

Andy has:

The piano has:

 

The black floor I just posted is a variation of the BBGlossy in which I put white for diffuse color, and a noise node into the diffuse reflectivity, multiplied by .012 - making it very close to black, but not constant black. This let the sunlight show a bit of "dust" on the black floor.



You should put the Glossy thread into the wiki as it is a complete tutorial on the subject of glossy/shiny opaque things, including some metals.

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