stewer? May I ask you why you used 20 as the IOR in the fresnel blend node in your gold shader? That's not even close to the real IOR of gold (which is 0.47). If we can't use the real IOR why do we have an IOR input? Or is it multiplied somehow?

Sorry, but this is just one of the things that makes me crazy about the material room and why I don't have a clue what's going on in it. Not like other 3D programs at all that are relatively straightforward. IOR in those IS the real IOR (Luxrender, Cycles and Kerkythea just to name a couple).

Frustration continues....

Laurie