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phgroove

09-22-2003, 08:07 AM

I'm trying to make a good gold material, seems easy but it is not, at least for me. So here few tests with the shader I came up so far.
Don't pay attention to the model since it's a quick jewelry looking stuff.

Any suggestion, how to improve it etc.

I use 3ds Max 5 and brazil, but I have, hopefully, acces to some machines with vray and finalRender, so directions for all those render engines are welcome.

By the way, the images are rendered with brazil.

http://www.real-refractions.com/images/wip/gold/test_gold_01.jpg

http://www.real-refractions.com/images/wip/gold/test_gold_02.jpg

http://www.real-refractions.com/images/wip/gold/test_gold_03.jpg

phgroove

09-22-2003, 08:08 AM

I think these last 2 images are close to a believable gold, wat doya think guys, and girls?

http://www.real-refractions.com/images/wip/gold/test_gold_04.jpg

http://www.real-refractions.com/images/wip/gold/test_gold_05.jpg

Johan Hiemstra

09-27-2004, 05:01 AM

The last picture looks absolutely great. It looks expensive. If only you shared what you've done so far... :sad:

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