It'll be finished thes weekend I hope and will be posted on this
very NG for suggestions/coments, insults whatever.

Cheers
Steve

bankspad wrote:
> 
> Whatcha makin'? Will we get to see?  ;-]
> 
> KB-
> 
> Steve wrote:
> 
> > That's what I call inspiration.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Steve.
> >
> > PS: thought I had one of my objects finished, now I've got to go
> > through the whole lot fixing the textures.
> >
> > bankspad wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Oh - you seem to think the lead is a textural device - while I never thought
> > > > of that - although NOW it seems obvious. The lead is another cylinder
> > > > entirely.
> > >
> > > I thought that it was. What I was thinking was that instead of using just the
> > > graphite pigment for the lead that you combine it with whatever wood texture
> > > (and parameters ) that was used for the pencil in the texture for the cylinder.
> > > I slapped together a real basic image, hope you don't mind.   ;-]
> > >
> > > KB-
> > >
> > > cone { <-1, 0.001, -1>, 0.001, <2, 4, 2>, 1.2
> > > texture {
> > > planar
> > > turbulence 0.4
> > > texture_map {
> > >  [0.01 T_Wood23 finish { ambient 0.3 } scale 4 rotate z*-40 ]//whatever Wood
> > > texture you choose
> > >  [0.2 pigment { rgb 0.65 } finish {specular 0.5 roughness 0.15 }]
> > >  }
> > > translate y*0.6
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > >   -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >  [Image]

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