That looks great! I know you said you just tweaked your scaling dials and such to get him to look like that... um, I don't suppose you have a list of the settings you made, do you? :)

Both really, but especially the one depited with Freak 3 where you mentioned the perpetually free pants. That one, to me, is closer to the look of the classic depiction in the comics or perhaps the movies. Very well done

I re-initialized M4 as you suggested and it all seems to work fine now - thanks for the help everyone!

I got it! I had in my experimenting around with your parameters, Redphantom, changed my values on the "reflect" node. It's all good now, I think. Thank you everyone for all the patience and help!I would have never figured this out otherwise :)

I tried that... Just on a whim, I placed a cylinder behind the wing, gave it a bright red color and rendered. It reflected it just fine, but the logo that I created with the texture and the mask didn't show. It seems like I get either the nice reflectivity or the logo, but not both at the same time. I'll go have a look again... there has to be something I'm missing

I don't know what the deal is, I just can't get the result I'm looking for. Redphantom, I love your example with the chrome shuttle and the flag. That's exactly what I'm trying to achieve, but I can't seem to do so. This is quite disheartening. I think I need to take a day or so to just try and puzzle out what I'm doing wrong

Wow! Redfern that looks fantastic! I love that! So just fiddling with numerous dials got you that result? So, on to my next question.... seems like that's all I do any more!

It's been a while since I used F4 for anything... so long in fact that I've switched computers in the span of time since I used him. In doing so, I lost some content, of which F4 was one of them. I re-downloaded him, along with all the morph packs that I purchased when I bought him, too. I re-installed all of it and when I clicked to inject the morphs (any of them), then turned the dials, nothing happens. Nothing at all. I don't remember ever having this problem before, so why aren't the morphs working now? Seems like it's always something...

Those both look really good!

I changed the value to 25 and it got better... but not where it needs to be (see the pic). On a whim I upped the value more. Then much more. The result wasn't any different

ok..... working on it now. I'll let you know

Thank you everyone, so much! Great info here! This one reason I love Rendo so much - everyone is so helpful!

RedPhantom, hi and I apologize for the delay in getting back to you. between work, kids, life in general, finding spare time can be a challenge for sure. So I followed your directions as best I could and came out with something I can't explain. Or rather, it would be better to explain with pictures. So I'm uploading pics that show how I made my simple, but very effective chrome shader, how I combined it with your instructions, and the result. Also I'm including pics of the mask and texture map. When you have time, can you please take a look and help me figure out what i did wrong? Thanks,

Steve

Ok, so I'm working on setting up the nodes as you showed but I have two questions, please:

1. Where does the "cycles surface" node attach to the Poser surface (diffuse color, alternate diffuse, etc)?
2. On the "mix closure" node, closure 1 has an extended node that is titled "your chrome shader". I'm assuming that this refers to the procedural chrome shader that I made? If so, I'm confused completely.... how do I set this up to reference a complicated shader I made?

Sorry, but I'm pretty lost at this point

This is great - I'm looking forward to having a go at it. I promise, I'm not ignoring you - thank you for the help, by the way. I work very early in the morning til mis afternoon, and after that is all the errands and such I have to run. Hoping to give it a go this evening. I'll let you know how it goes

Steve

May I see an enlarged pic of what your mask looks like, please?