Help! How to texture headlights of a car

[newman]

It all depends on how you would like it to look. If you're going for a perfect, just-out-of-the-shop look, you won't need textures for anything but the glass here; set up various chrome materials and play around a bit. As for the glass, you might want to draw a pattern in photoshop - recommend you look at the real thing for reference - then try and play around with the displacement channel.. If you want a damaged chrome material, you might want to play with the blend material - draw some sort of a pattern for a mask, and set up the chrome and the "below-the-chrome" material..
BTW - that cone looks like it needs some smoothing. Go to polygon sub-object mode, hit "Ctrl+A", then find the option "Auto Smooth" in the smoothing options, under the modify tab. Should look much better.

[TiskO]

Hey Nighttrain thanks ill give it ago. As for the cone, yeah i know, i didnt want any smoothing groups. I was thinking of the chrome cone, and a squarish finish i think would look better than a smooth one.

Cheers. Thanks!

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