John Bigboote Posted May 2, 2012 Posted May 2, 2012 What is your recipe for chrome? I did this with matcap(ambiance) + hash environment + reflectivity + FastAOCPU and it came out pretty nice. MLSallstar.mov Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted May 2, 2012 Hash Fellow Posted May 2, 2012 Wow! That trophy should get a trophy. Quote
Gerry Posted May 2, 2012 Posted May 2, 2012 Nice! If I *had* a recipe for chrome, now I have a new one! Quote
John Bigboote Posted May 2, 2012 Author Posted May 2, 2012 Here is the material and the source image, if anyone else wants to try it. I would be interested in seeing the results. I've made some revisions... has more oomph to it now, note the blue... Instructions for use: -Download the material and source image. -Import the image into your project.(Rt-click on images/import...) -Import the material into your project. (Rt-click Materials/Import...) -MAKE SURE that the environment material is being fed the cannonball image. (Hit the plus-sign on Chromium Material, make sure the image is being targeted.) -Drag the Chromium material onto a group of CP's that you want to be chromey. -When you RENDER, make sure Reflections and Plug-In Shaders are set to ON. -OPTIONAL: Place a flattened sphere or other simple geometry just behind the camera in the choreography... make sure this geometry is white with 100% ambiance. This gives nice reflected highlites into the chrome. Enjoy. cannonball.tga Chromium.mat Quote
John Bigboote Posted May 2, 2012 Author Posted May 2, 2012 This picture illustrates the final optional step... give all that reflectivity something to REFLECT. This is a common Photographers technique. Quote
johnl3d Posted May 3, 2012 Posted May 3, 2012 Nice Matt Instructions in pdf format attached further down chrome.pdf Quote
John Bigboote Posted May 3, 2012 Author Posted May 3, 2012 SWEET! Thank-you, Mr. Tinkering Gnome... for tinkering -on MY behalf! Quote
jason1025 Posted May 3, 2012 Posted May 3, 2012 High Dollar Award Photo Real Award Reach out and touch award Lighting Award Quote
John Bigboote Posted May 3, 2012 Author Posted May 3, 2012 ONE THING I forgot to mention... (Sorry Gnome) is that I used a matcap shader for this, so you will nee to install the matcap shaders from here: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=37890 Quote
John Bigboote Posted May 3, 2012 Author Posted May 3, 2012 Latest chrome. That is some dang nice metal, If he says so himself- and he DOES! MLSallstar.mov Quote
largento Posted May 3, 2012 Posted May 3, 2012 A marked improvement over an already great looking test. Nice work, Matt! Quote
Kamikaze Posted July 17, 2012 Posted July 17, 2012 That is fantastic chrome John ..and thanks for the shader link.... and the second one kicked booty ....... so cool to do the pdf John.. Quote
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