"James Taylor" <jim### [at] blueyondercouk> wrote in message
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>
> I've been struggling to create a nice looking bronze texture and was
hoping
> that some of the texture gurus could knock one together for me ;) or point
> me in the right direction.
> I'm looking for that dark, rich blacky-gold tone (I believe this a wax
> treatment???) like the one in these photos
> http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/lc/slidecol/pubart/alex1im.html

I always relate bronze to cemetaries from when I was a kid and would go see
the burial sites before or after the ceremonies. The markers or plaques, and
once I remember a vault cap (guess it's called) made of bronze. So I
expected to see some copper+brass color in the pictures you were showing but
maybe it doesn't get touched enough to wear down to unoxidized metal. The
coloring there is what I thought is just the patina from oxidization, except
it also looks somewhat polished too, so I don't know if they've done
something to it or not.

If you go by that example alone you would probably use some reflection with
extreme contrast, having a very low 'exponent' value. Lots of widespread
highlighting too. There's not much of any patina effect in this case but
would be if worn spots existed and then you'd need to use a slope pattern or
other way to get that done.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

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