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On Sat, 22 Jul 1995, Glenn Saunders wrote:

> What do you guys think would be the optimal settings to get something that
> looks like a dull pewter, the diffused metallic greyish that you see on
> 1950s SF rockets?  I can't quite get that effect using LW yet.  It comes
> out looking too smooth and uniform.

Try a greyish color and use a Fractal Noise diffusity and specularity map
to give it areas of "discoloration"...try to keep the frequencies to 1,
and play with the texture size to get something that looks more natural.
It would help if you had an actual piece of pewter to use as reference.

                                      -David Warner
                                       Event Horizon Graphics


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