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  7. Date: Mon, 24 Jul 95 09:50 BST-1
  8. From: snouty@cix.compulink.co.uk (Phil South)
  9. Subject: Re: pewter
  10. To: lightwave@webcom.com
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  17. > What do you guys think would be the optimal settings to get something 
  18. > that
  19. > looks like a dull pewter, the diffused metallic greyish that you see on
  20. > 1950s SF rockets?  I can't quite get that effect using LW yet.  It comes
  21. > out looking too smooth and uniform.
  22.  
  23. I have just the thing for you, which I discovered almost by accident 
  24. whilst noodling about with my surface settings. The key is the fractal 
  25. noise specular map, which you have to adjust for the size of your object 
  26. to get that sort of crystaline speculararity where the light hits the 
  27. surface. Try this:
  28.  
  29. Surface colour: 200, 200, 205
  30. Luminosity: 0
  31. Diffuse: 33%
  32. Specular: 90% (with fractal noise size of 0.01 for x,y&z, texture value 
  33. of 50%, freq=3, contrast 3.)
  34. Gloss: Low
  35. Reflect: 0
  36. etc. everything else except Smoothing off.
  37.  
  38. Voila! Pewter. As I say dick about with the fractal noise until it shows 
  39. up as big flakes and you're there.
  40.  
  41. Metal surfaces which don't reflect everything are more lifelike. Not 
  42. everything made of metal is mirror chrome, y'know. :?)
  43.  
  44. Hope this helps.
  45.  
  46. ---
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  48. Phil South <snouty@cix.compulink.co.uk>   "nuqDaq yuch Dapol"
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