This is my excuse for poving these days.. It's a double A-arm
suspension I'm supposed to investigate for fatigue failure for
different road conditions. I spent most of the time converting the FE
mesh to pov mesh and then smoothing individual surfaces with Warp's
mesh smoothing program.
Does anyone have some tricks to get a better metallic texture? This
one is based on Jonathan's Fight Club texture but doesn't look half as
good. I use a box for surrounding with a gradient from white to blue
at the top. The lower arm is aluminium while the rest is steel, but I
use the same texture for everything at the moment.
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From: Martin Magnusson
Subject: Re: Car suspension
Date: 2 Mar 2002 19:59:42
Message: <3c81757e@news.povray.org>
> Does anyone have some tricks to get a better metallic texture?
For trying out metallics I usually use a sky_sphere for the surroundings,
just to have something for the reflections. Try playing around with the
brilliance, specular and metallic keywords a bit.
/ Martin
>Is this any better? I think its a bit dark but it looks more metalic to me.
I've tried level tweaking too, but it looks more like steel than
aluminium.
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JRG wrote a "new metals.inc" a few months ago. The textures were very
convinceing in his sample scenes (never tried them myself.) You might find
it by searching the newsgroups @ http://news.povray.org
-Shay
"Sigmund Kyrre Aas" <as### [at] studntnuno> wrote in message
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From: Jari Juslin
Subject: Re: Car suspension
Date: 3 Mar 2002 15:54:23
Message: <3C828D7F.C7126BB5@iki.fi>
Shay wrote:
> JRG wrote a "new metals.inc" a few months ago. The textures were very> convinceing in his sample scenes (never tried them myself.) You might> find it by searching the newsgroups @ http://news.povray.org
Do you mean this article
<news://news.povray.org/3ad84390@news.povray.org>?
Meta-comment: It would be nice if people would provide more news-url's
and less http-url's. We are in news and not in web here, anyway, and
news-urls make work better for us reading our news with news readers and
not from web and equally good to the rest.
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