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Re: --New Lightsaber--
You need the chrome to reflect something, look for some angular maps (or make one yourself) and apply this to half a nurbs sphere that encompases your scene via a lambert material with the incandesance turned up, should work.Originally posted by echo red
I'm starting up this project again and I'm almost done. I'm having a problem with my dgs material. The saber doesn't look as chrome-ish as I want. Anyone know how I can fix this???
Or you could simply whack a HDR image on to it and use that for the lighting (but thats a bit of a cheat if you want to learn about lighting)
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Re: --New Lightsaber--
You need the chrome to reflect something, look for some angular maps (or make one yourself) and apply this to half a nurbs sphere that encompases your scene via a lambert material with the incandesance turned up, should work.Originally posted by echo red
I'm starting up this project again and I'm almost done. I'm having a problem with my dgs material. The saber doesn't look as chrome-ish as I want. Anyone know how I can fix this???
Or you could simply whack a HDR image on to it and use that for the lighting (but thats a bit of a cheat if you want to learn about lighting)
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No, I'm not done yet. It is work in progress. I havent gotten down to finishing yet. When I get some time, I'll add in some grooves.
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The handle is reflecting, but the material doesn't look chrome.
Don't know how to get it to. I got chrome on a previous project but didnt use mental ray.
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Errr you did use mental ray, or how did you get the HDRI image? (unless your using a third party render engine)Originally posted by echo red
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The handle is reflecting, but the material doesn't look chrome.
Don't know how to get it to. I got chrome on a previous project but didnt use mental ray.
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What I mean is that for a chrome metalic object you need to have a environment for the object to refelct, otherwise it will just look dull (as it dosent have anything to refelct), your right that it is reflecting (as I can see the floor refections in it) but it does not appear to ahve any other objects to reflect (such as the treees in your other thread)
Also try to make it a light blue colour thast should have it looking more chrome ish
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