The metal looks really good, though I'm not sure that's the same as being
realistic. Real metal often looks quite unremarkable and boring, which yours
certainly isn't!

I'd give it an 8 compared to the best renders and photos I've seen of metal, but
I think I might increase that score if you render it on a more familiar object
so I can judge more fairly (one thinks of Jaime Vives Piqueres' nuts & bolts as
a good example of a mundane object showing off a really good metal texture).

-- 
Tek
www.evilsuperbrain.com


"Hugo Asm" <hua### [at] post3teledk> wrote in message
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> Hi fellow POVers,
>
> I'm working on the metallic material, but I think the result is worth
> posting now. Maybe you can rate the photo-realism of it on a scale from 1-10
> (10 being best) ?
>
> The surroundings aren't too "warm", I know. It's grey and doesn't really fit
> the motif... But it's a test... My original plan was also to make the blue
> plastic into glass, but I haven't got that to work yet, and it will slow
> down rendering. Rendering time for this image was 2 hours 20 minutes on AMD
> 1.4 GHz. (because I used focal blur with 80 samples)... I did not use
> photons (doesn't seem to matter in this case) nor did I use radiosity. I did
> the modelling in Wings3D.
>
> Any comments are welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Hugo
>
>
>

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