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# 16 25-10-2008 , 11:30 AM

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the shader on the car doesn't reflect or highlight quite right... it should either be more shiny/reflective (anisotropic works well if you play with it a little) OR more dull (because of the age of the car).

only real gripe about the phone that hasn't been mentioned already is the texture alignment along the 1/4/7 keys... looks like they're shifting right the further down you go, but none of the other keys shift like that so i'm assuming it's just a placement error.

other than that, everything looks pretty impressive, nothing else that seems to benefit from improvement. nice job.

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# 17 25-10-2008 , 12:18 PM

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Well thanks alot for the comment, i don't know how i didn't see the wrong placement of the keys, will have to move the keys and as i sayed i think i need to make the reflection more aparent on the phone. On the car i use a simple blinn, with a high reflection, and i also used the reflection blur atribute, maybe it is too blurr so will have to tweake, the crome objects on the car have a DGS assing to it and i think it looks pretty good.

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# 18 25-10-2008 , 12:30 PM

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since your chrome is so new-looking on the car i think the paint shader should reflect that too and have much sharper specular highlights.

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# 19 25-10-2008 , 12:32 PM

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Yeah youre right, it's just that i saw an animation on youtube of a car and the reflection on it was too strong and i tried to make it more blurred and i overshot.

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# 20 25-10-2008 , 02:27 PM

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well reflection and specular highlight are two different things. what i'm talking about is most prominent in the car's driver side tire's cover. if you were to increase the specular, you'd have a much smaller white area with more definition. more specular = more metallic, more polished/clean, or more wet. less specular = more plastic/rubber, more dull/dirty, more aged/worn, and (obviously) dry as a bone.

meanwhile, if it's just a lesser reflection you're looking for, you can easily just... reduce the reflectivity value. .500 is usually default and i find it WAY too intense. i feel more comfortable at values around .100-.200 for a more subtle reflection. the blur on the reflections doesn't reduce the amount of reflection, it just makes it more obscure and hard to make out.

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