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Subject: Keeping the Chrome look, any suggestions?

caleb68 opened this issue on Aug 31, 2002 · 13 posts
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caleb68 ( ) posted Sat, 31 August 2002 at 1:54 PM · edited Fri, 02 August 2024 at 10:43 PM

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Hey all, im prepping some mat files for the suit of armor i've been working on and im wondering if anyone has any suggestions on settings to keep the above look to the armor when rendering it?

igohigh ( ) posted Sat, 31 August 2002 at 2:12 PM

Morphworld 3 has a full tutorial on Metal Reflections along with some nice reflections included! And there are several more reflect textures at RDNA too. It seems the key is to Not apply the texture and set the color to Black, highlight to White (or adjust to taste), and reflection to White (or adjust to taste). By adding a texture you can however get some nice effects too. All a matter of taste and what look you are after but for this I would say No Texture, only reflection map it.

lesbentley ( ) posted Sat, 31 August 2002 at 2:56 PM

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These are the default settings I use, I usually set the highlight color to black, and tweak it if necessary. The Highlight slider is another one to play with.

caleb68 ( ) posted Sat, 31 August 2002 at 2:59 PM

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okies cool :D thanks guys :) this helps :) haven't played around with steel reflections much before so im trying to get it to look nice :)

ShawnDriscoll ( ) posted Sat, 31 August 2002 at 3:06 PM

Ooh. Much better. What's the helmet like? SHONNER http://www.shonner.com

www.youtube.com/user/ShawnDriscollCG

caleb68 ( ) posted Sat, 31 August 2002 at 4:27 PM

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the helmets pic is over at the link took awhile but i got a black chrome finish that looks good too :D least i think it does :) looked good under 4 white lights hitting each side too so I know it'll keep the look :) been working on the whole project for 8 days now :)

toashzadel ( ) posted Sat, 31 August 2002 at 5:14 PM

can't help you with technical aspect of reflections; but for what it's worth I think this looks very good! well done :)

igohigh ( ) posted Sun, 01 September 2002 at 12:04 AM

I really like that Black Chrome ;p ~ Good Armor vs Evil Armor ~

caleb68 ( ) posted Sun, 01 September 2002 at 12:55 AM

Attached Link: http://www.darkfaction.com/

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I have to agree, the darker tints on the armor seem to look better to me, but :) i've always been attracted to the Darker shades of things :) Here's a pic of the Mike Armor with the spikes showing

igohigh ( ) posted Sun, 01 September 2002 at 9:28 AM

Oh, your the one with those cool puzzle boxes!??! I never put the URL and name together - Thanks! The spikes are awsome!

caleb68 ( ) posted Sun, 01 September 2002 at 1:41 PM

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:) stuck the promo store add up for it this morning :) it can be found over at the link :) almost completed :D

SergeantJack ( ) posted Mon, 02 September 2002 at 10:11 PM

Ohhhh....droool..........

caleb68 ( ) posted Tue, 03 September 2002 at 6:37 AM

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I stuck up the package Preview today, just follow the link, showed pictures of everything thats in it :) I'm hoping people will like this kit :) took a little to put together but I think its more then worth it :)

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