Forum: Bryce

Subject: Help with textures: Brushed Aluminium

bazze opened this issue on Nov 18, 2003 ยท 13 posts

bazze posted Tue, 18 November 2003 at 7:27 AM

I'm doing this speaker in Wings 3D and have imported it to Bryce so I can apply textures on it. The panels are no problem - I have found a light birch texture that will do the job. The problem is the metal area around the actual speakers. In real life it is made of brushed aluminium. I can't figure out how to simulate this texture. Any ideas? If you wish you can download the speaker model from my homepage (www.colacola.se) thanks!

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TheBryster posted Tue, 18 November 2003 at 7:40 AM Forum Moderator

There is a a selection 'Alumnium' textures in the Bryce materials drop-down, in the METALS section. lines 7 & 8. There are several colours o choose from but you can change these easily enough..

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bazze posted Tue, 18 November 2003 at 7:51 AM

Hey TheBryster, yes I've seen that. However that's the wrong kind of aluminium. I don't think it looks like brushed aluminium.

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TheBryster posted Tue, 18 November 2003 at 8:25 AM Forum Moderator

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OK, so how about Brushed Pewter? It worked for me. Checkout the chess-sets on my website...

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bazze posted Tue, 18 November 2003 at 8:34 AM

No that's not it. Here's an example i found: http://www.siemensappliances.co.uk/graphics/MB91101.jpg (searched for brushed aluminium in google image search)

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mboncher posted Tue, 18 November 2003 at 9:13 AM

use brushed pewter or silver and change the color in the DTE. Oh yeah, and the best advice I ever got on textures was lose all the ambience. Hope this helps.

madmax_br5 posted Tue, 18 November 2003 at 9:30 AM

yeah lose allt he ambience. The oly way to simulate brushed metals is to use blurry reflections, or use a texture maps with a photo of brushed aluminum. in any case, the specular halo should be very close to white and the metallicity set close to 100

Incarnadine posted Tue, 18 November 2003 at 10:48 AM

one other way is to use a very low bump (say 1.6) with a very high setting in the scale (say >200), try wavesnice for example.

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bazze posted Tue, 18 November 2003 at 1:52 PM

Hey guys, thanks for your tips. Well here it is anyway - with textures and parts in "brushed aluminium".

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GROINGRINDER posted Tue, 18 November 2003 at 2:12 PM

Created in photopaint.

Phantast posted Wed, 19 November 2003 at 10:24 AM

Nice.

pakled posted Wed, 19 November 2003 at 10:29 AM

there are some other metallic mats over at Wolfie's Den, should be searchable.. I've gotten some useful ones there.

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Slakker posted Wed, 19 November 2003 at 7:06 PM

i wish i could model my speakers...but they're so darn complicated...