Is there any way to get Poser to render chrome? Here is a picture of my new Joe Satriani series Ibanez I made. Along with the man himself. I just used a greyish color and turned up the highlight using a light color for that channel. But it's not quite chrome. I tried using chrome texture maps. But it looks pretty much the same. Do I need to fool around with the reflection mapping? I plan on showing this stuff to Joe himself if I can get the chrome right. He's taught me soo much about playing the guitar. I thought I'd do something for him. Any suggestions? ScottA iamsba@aol.com

Yes, you can use a chrome texture as a reflection map, play around with the percentage and also object color as it can look very different, and always render cause you won't be able to see what it will look like otherwise. This looks pretty good, are you gonna animate it?

You are going to post this prop right?!?! I play an Ibanez Soundgear 1206 six string bass. I love it. Custom Bartolinis and a beautiful SWR 500 watt Pro Series amp with 2 Henry the Eighths! Been playing 19 years myself.

Allerleirauh. How do you think he reaches those high notes? ;-) I might use it to make an animated .gif or two. But that's about all. The fingers would take a long time to animate for any length of time. bbascuba. Poser wreaks havock with this one due to the smoothing thing. The guitar looks much nicer in Raydream, etc. And the file is over one meg. so I couldn't add the fine details like I wanted to( I have a thing about large file sizes). But since nobody has made one of these (probably due to it's organic curves) I'll probably post it to my web site. I own one of these JS1000's myself. And I just love it. I'm a small guy (5'9") with smallish hands. So this guitar is perfect for my body. ScottA

Scott, I have a set of Metalic reflection maps over at the PropsGuild that has instructions included. One of them is chrome. -JH.