EClark1894 opened this issue on Mar 22, 2015 · 65 posts
bagginsbill posted Tue, 24 March 2015 at 8:19 AM
Here's a (finish or smoothness or roughness or blur) catalog of sorts. It's a simple metallic shader built with:
Color White, Diffuse 0 (!!), Reflectivity .8, IOR 4
Blur (aka Reflection softness) varies left (0) to middle (1) to right (4)
Every version has different settings on the Blinn node so that the reaction to a Poser light matches the reflections of small bright objects in the scene.
The formulas for all possible variations are not important or helpful if there is one specific shader you want to create. Or I could give you the formulas and you can make an infinite number of variations.
If you think this metal is too "black" I can raise it up - it is "blacker" than the swords I posted earlier.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)