Hi all, I'm looking for some good metal mats, especially stainless steel. Any idea where I can find some? The metals that come with Vue are not really satisfying. ;) Many thanks in advance, Phil

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Thanks, Guitta. I already saw this post, but unfortunately there are no hints how to achieve the results or an url to the mats. Any other ideas? A link to a appropriate tutorial would help a lot, too. Phil

Metals from Vue are too much reflective for what you are looking (brushed metals). So try to reduce reflection to 70%, blured reflection to minimum 5. For the color try a light grey , for the bumps choose a function like smoothed noise (x=0.1 ,y=10., z=1 to produce brushed patterns), bumps amplitude of 0.01 or less. For highlights, 200 could be nice, you can try to apply a variable highlight with the same function as above. You should try to modify these settings to obtain the best results. Maybe it's better to use image map of brushed metal directly to obtain more realistic In fact the most important point is to have a real environment around the object to create a realistic metal reflection. Hope it helps, Yves

Guitta

Yves, I'll give it a try - many thanks!!! Guitta, that would be really noble if you could do so. Many thanks!!! Do you mind sending it to me via email (nonhuman-being@gmx.net), too? If it's not too much trouble I'd be really really grateful. I just love this place - so many helpful and nice people!!! :))) Cheers, Phil

Uploaded to the free stuff and sent to you:-) Guitta

A thousand thanks, Guitta!!! :)))) Hopefully I'll post the finalized image by the end of this week. Cheers, Phil