Quote - I'm also a little sceptical of these crazy 100+ shader node mats. I have tested some of the metal shaders that Ive got off the web against ones with plain old reflect nodes and can't tell the difference between renders. just a thought...now Ill put on my flame-proof suit.

I absolutely adhere to this sentence. IMHO there is NOT any reason for infinite nodes... when many times some of them just cancel or invalide the others.

For getting realistic metals lately I have started to use an AO node to limit where the reflections go and where they should be ignored. Some kind of patina, or age... Laurie call me to home for more details if you like ;)

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