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Subject: Chrome in Bryce? Is this even possible?

HardRock1960 opened this issue on May 21, 2002 · 7 posts
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HardRock1960 ( ) posted Tue, 21 May 2002 at 1:29 AM · edited Sat, 01 February 2025 at 7:16 PM

I am trying to create a realistic looking CD, but have no idea how to give it the chrome edges and so on. Does anyone have a clue as to how to do this?

Rayraz ( ) posted Tue, 21 May 2002 at 2:04 PM

If you mean making those 'rainbow'-like colors, than there's no other solution than just making your own (2D) texture. Or at least I don't know any other solution.

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HardRock1960 ( ) posted Tue, 21 May 2002 at 7:06 PM

I'm speaking of CHROME, as in metal, not some oil slick looking material. I realize CD's give off that rainbow effect, but I would like to be able to have a chrome looking one. I can't seem to find a chrome material anywhere.

Aldaron ( ) posted Tue, 21 May 2002 at 7:14 PM

Wouldn't some tweaking to brushed silver or even polished silver work?

Rayraz ( ) posted Wed, 22 May 2002 at 2:15 AM

To create chrome the metal needs to be highly reflective and it usually needs to have a high metalicity setting to look convincing. A nice brushed-silverlike specularity might also help, but that depends on the lighting of the scene.

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Phantast ( ) posted Wed, 22 May 2002 at 4:58 AM

Fast Trax has a chrome material for doing faux-Sorayama robots, but it uses a fake reflection, and only works in the right sort of scene. I would have thought you could get the effect you want by judicious tweaking of high reflectivity, high specularity, low diffusion and low ambience.

EricofSD ( ) posted Wed, 22 May 2002 at 10:31 PM

Attached Link: http://www.weiser3d.de/download_bryce1.htm

There's a chrome metal texture in your simple & fast directory along with a mirror texture. Why they weren't in metals and glass directories I don't know. They are procedural so you can tweak the daylights out of them. If that doesn't work, check out the link.

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