Metal in Blender 2.37a

[Apollux]

A few hints:

1. Update your copy of Blender. 2-37 is ancient old for any standart.

2. Resource to some oldschool, namely, enviroment maps.

3. Use an anisotropic shader to influence the color a little bit.

[RedSquirrel]

That old radiosity tutorial brings back some memories... :surprised

Apollux is right update your version of blender, or wait a few days to get blender 2.43. Blenders Radiosity system hasn't change much in many years so its very slow and radiosity is all about light and it how it bounces so I would advice not to use it but it is still useful.

If you want chrome or other steel there is a shader option called Tangent and that can be used to make a steel effect (more on tangent shader can be found here http://www.blender.org/cms/Material_Features.764.0.html ), there are other techniques for generating steel like textures in blender, but the vital shader to use is the specular Blinn.

[Samo]

you are using yafray, aren't you?
In this Yaf examples compilation there are many materials you can learn from:
http://www.yafray.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1009

[harkyman]

If you can show a reference of what you want the material to look like, I can probably whip something up that will get close.

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