"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
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> Not sure about the blue steel.  I have no image to compare it to.
THe
> crystal looks very nice.

   It's a bad winebottle then?  ;)

The device at the top for winding the watch
> looks the least believable to me.

   Heh, I have to admit that I did chicken out of trying to model that
at first and used radial instead, but this morning I summoned up the
courage and gave it a shot - it took some time to figure it out but I
think I got there in the end.

   What do you think of it now?

     ~Steve~

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>    What do you think I could do to improve the hands? I'm not quite
> sure if I have the code right or not for this, but maybe someone
could
> give some pointers? Or is it ok?

There is a cactus isosurface in the demo files that may be useful for
the button?

I've rarely seen a IV on watches instead of IIII but this could be a
european thing.

The hands will vary from flat to slightly cylindrical, and a bit
lighter than the example below to very dark blue. I just tried
digi-fotoing a selection of hands but they came out black or white -
I'm no photographer :(

It seems you need at least a little light, or a bright object, near
the hands to see any sort of specular reflection, which may be masked
by the crystal reflections anyway. The example below of a spring used
this:

texture{
   pigment{ rgb <0, 0.5, 1> }
   finish {
       brilliance 4
       diffuse 0.1
       metallic
       specular 0.8
       roughness 0.06
       conserve_energy
       reflection <0, 0.05, 0.1>
   }
}

This is in 3.5 with radiosity, but is much darker without rad, and
also in 3.1

Alf

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St. wrote:
> "Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
> news:3DE### [at] aolcom...
> 
>>Not sure about the blue steel.  I have no image to compare it to.
> 
> THe
> 
>>crystal looks very nice.
> 
> 
>    It's a bad winebottle then?  ;)
> 
> The device at the top for winding the watch
> 
>>looks the least believable to me.
> 
> 
>    Heh, I have to admit that I did chicken out of trying to model that
> at first and used radial instead, but this morning I summoned up the
> courage and gave it a shot - it took some time to figure it out but I
> think I got there in the end.
> 
>    What do you think of it now?
> 
>      ~Steve~
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 

That makes a huge difference overall

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