POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : shinyness : Re: shinyness Server Time
8 Jul 2024 02:39:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: shinyness  
From: Robert McGregor
Date: 5 Nov 2009 11:30:01
Message: <web.4af2fcb91902ed1c86ff1d480@news.povray.org>
"colaroid" <col### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> How do you make an object look really shiny, basically I want a gold box to go
> into a picture and all Im achieving is a dull brown colour (with the gold
> pigment)? I have tried phong and finish methods but I am clearly doing something
> wrong!

Try using specular and/or reflection in your finish block, e.g.:

finish {
   specular 1 roughness 0.01
   reflection {0, 0.25 fresnel on} conserve_energy
}

(And if using reflection make sure you have something in your environment to
actually reflect)


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