Eric Freeman wrote:
> "Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote in message 
> news:44278004$1@news.povray.org...
> 
>>Thanks for the feedback! Yes I have had a miserable time trying to get a 
>>metallic look to it...
> 
> 
> It may be that there's nothing to reflect off of the metal.  Try putting a 
> large box with a multi-colored image map behind the camera.
> 
You know, that is the *oldest* suggestion in the book and I certainly 
did have some

  colors behind the camera to be reflected.

But it just occurred to me that I may not have had *enough* back there 
or at
a high enough ambient. Off to do more testing.

Thanks for the kick in the backside.  Apparently I needed it!

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