ockham opened this issue on May 16, 2017 ยท 9 posts
bagginsbill posted Thu, 18 May 2017 at 4:39 PM
@ypvs - you make a great point - I totally added the label AFTER i already did the groove layout. I should have counted the tracks.
That render was using FF. FF couldn't handle real grooves so the tracks are done with diffuse and anisotropic nodes.
Yesterday I tried doing it in SuperFly with actual grooves in the bump map (procedural of course - no way an image could deal with that level of detail) and simply made the entire surface uniformly do sharp reflections. No trickery. It came out much more interesting. There are some moire artifacts but I think I could fix those with a bit more randomness to the grooves.
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