On 9/12/2017 7:53 AM, Norbert Kern wrote:
> Personally I love metal materials, but it's difficult to predict their behavior
> in several scene setups.
> Metals depend on their environment, reflections are more important than diffuse
> settings. Metals show sharp contrasts between shadows and highlights.
> 
> Therefore I prefer hdr lighting or at least a combination of a normal
> lightsource and hdr

yep i'm a metal materials fan as well ... and yes you are correct adding 
hdr is definitely the way to go because it makes for plenty of eye candy 
in the reflections

> Here I took the nice rolly_sphere together with a more polished silvery metal
> material:

lol ... i have a silver version too. copper looks pretty cool as well. 
i'm working on a glass version but there have been some challenges. 
something opaque behaves better in that the shape of the object isn't 
lost. to that end i've been working on a milk glass version ... i'll 
post if i'm able to produce something worthy. thanks for sharing!!!

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