hey guys!

i read the thread about gears some days ago and decided i should give it a
try. well, i ended up with a small macro which produces all kinds of gears
(well, of course only the ones i found in images from the web). here is an
example pic with some random generated gears.

i've got some questions concerning this special picture:
- i used focal blur to set the focus on the golden gear. do you think it's
ok that way or should i increase it or even skip it? i'm not really
satisfied with the way it looks right now...
- i could'nt figure out a nice normal for the gears. at the moment, they are
looking well, boring ;-) i tried a low-scaled granite normal, but it looked
like they were made of stone (think that's what a granite normal should do
*g*)...

i'd be glad if you could help me with these thingies...

greetings & thanks,
florian
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For my gears, I used a plain old bumps normal, scaled enormously (x10000
I think) in one direction to give a "brushed" effect.  I needed 2
versions to allow the pattern to show up on the tops and the sides of
the gears properly, but this was not a problem.

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Some rather impressive looking gears you have there! OK, maybe the texturing
is a little dull, but the shapes are certainly good. Not only do these have
teeth, they also have spokes and holes and... Nice work!

Andrew.

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http://www.runevision.com/

You might want to try Rune's brushed textures.

James

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