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Alpert
08-14-2009, 03:55 PM
hi,

i finished modeling my character and I would like to texture it now. I like to achieve metal shaders like these:

http://features.cgsociety.org/newgallerycrits/g35/310135/310135_1242822791_large.jpg

Can I achieve those shaders with normal Maya Blinn nodes or are Mental Ray Shaders required? If so, do you know a website where i can learn more of that?

Second question is about refractions. What are them :)? I tried a google search but theres not a place where it's described.
soulburn3d
08-14-2009, 04:37 PM
Well, first off, those aren't metal shaders. Those are plastic or perhaps some sort of glazed pottery. I haven't used mentalray in maya, so someone else can probably give a good recipe.

Refraction is where lights gets bent as it travels through a media like water or glass. Doing a google search on refraction leads to lots of good images, check out the water images below...

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=refraction&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

- Neil
danlefeb
08-14-2009, 05:07 PM
There are some good metal shaders on Highend3d that you can use as a starting point.
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