FranOnTheEdge, Ive been playing around with creating galvanize material in the Bryce DTE and I think Ive got something going here that you might be interested in. Dont hesitate to tweak the settings. In the Bryce metals library I selected Christmas Ball #15 since the red speckles closely resembles the galvanization speckles on galvanized steel. I then proceeded to alter and tweak the material to satisfaction. First I changed the colors of the ball to shades of gray. Then I changed the material type in the noise filter from RND Lines to Voronoi ID1 and resized the speckles by altering the frequencies. This then becomes the base metal texture. Created a brush steel bump map in Photoshop to bring out the brush steel striations with independent control over the bump height. To meet Rendo specs I needed to optimize the image so quality is reduced.

The rendered finished image.

I zinc it looks very real Quest. Great mat!

Excellent TUT!

Bookmarked. Great, thank you!!

I just love this forum!! always learning and from the experts too, cant be bad can it!! Thankyou :)

Thanks Quest. Great Tut.

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Hey, Looks like pretty good galvanised metal to me... gotta give this one a go... Thaks Quest.

There must be some weird trick to getting the bead in ambient and not diffuse yet keeping the altered xmas ball texture. I can't seem to do that. Help?

Fran, when you open Bryce, then creat your cube, then go to the material editor then bring up the metals library, then select "Christmas Ball #15". The bead will appear in the diffuse dimple A and the material will appear on the right as texture A. Next to diffuse is the component color swatch, clicking in the swatch will eliminate the bead in dimple A. Use the diffuse component color swatch for your desired metal color and place a bead in ambient dimple A. Texture A will stay put but instead of driving diffuse color it will now drive ambient color instead. Then place a bead in the bump height dimple B to reserve that spot for your 2D brushed metal bump map. See the red indication arrows above in the tut. Now proceed with the rest of the alterations as instructed above. Please, feel free to question.

great tut quest.

How do you get that hsv color slider? It does not look like mine. All I seem to be able to do is get a dropper and basic color picker for each color channel. I'm Bryce 5.5.

Waldomac, while clicking on the color swatch hold down the Alt key (Windows), Option key (Mac). Then along the bottom you select the color palette you wish to use. I prefer the HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) I find that more intuitive than RGB. Hue selects the overall color, saturation selects the richness (intensity) and value selects less or more color (from dark to light). P.S. If you start with the top swatch while in the DTE then all you need do once you set the first color is mouse click on the next swatch under it and while holding the mouse key you dip it into the top swatch who's color has already been selected. That will copy that color into the second swatch. Then bring up the HSV palette and all you need do is slide the value slider towards the left to darken it.

Message edited on: 12/12/2005 00:48

Not to be repetitive only mean to be instructive so I thought I should upload for edification purposes just in case some aren't with me. For those that are, please bear with me, in this case, Texture B is providing the bump since our bead is in dimple B for bump height:

Message edited on: 12/12/2005 08:01

Sorry to divert this subject - or maybe it ISN'T a diversion? But I'd like to know what type of thing you'd use just texture A for or just B or just any of them... PLUS - what you'd use: A+B A+C A+D - or: A+B+C A+B+C+D Or A+C+D or C+D or any other combination thereof? In otherwords what is the significance of ABCD? And if it doesn't really matter which ONE you use - then what makes the difference of using various combinations or ABCD etc. I mean, is there one thing you'd use just A for? and what about using AC&D? For instance is the one sort of material that needs a particular combination? and another that needs a DIFFERENT combination? I already understand about using one channel or slot or whatever for bump and one for diffuse and/or ambient, but perhaps you could include the explanation of bump etc too, to keep things in perspective - also that would be helpful for people new to Bryce. And what about other things? Reflection, specular, refraction? Volume? Transparency? Etc... P.S. Could you try not to stick all the images together in one lump? - makes it hellish to copy the info. I have to go through PhotoShop and cut everything up again just to be able to see it. One image per message is MUCH better for me.

Fran, this is a tall order requiring a 144 pages (pages 407-551), 2 chapters (chapters 9 and 10) in Susan Kitchens Real World Bryce, which is still to this day considered the Bryce Manual. I will entertain to explain your question at least in small part, in another Thread.