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heelllppp i suck at texturing!
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05 Feb 2008Hah I really don't suck that badly, but i'm going crazy trying to make a procedural shader for iron. I'm pretty good with reflecive metals, but I just can't get the look I want. Here is the look i'm going for...
Any tips to lead me in the right direction would be well appreciated
, thx
I kinda came up with
after messing around for a while, though it's still not really the look im going for >.<
can't seem to quite get happy with the specular hilights, and maybe it's a tad too reflective as well -
05 Feb 2008Hey mate,
I think that's coming along nicely. Maybe make your bump map a little smaller by upping the repeats to nail the main painted look.
To add some rust create a high-contrast fractal grunge map, mostly white with patches of black (e.g. amplitude = 1, Threshold 0.7, Ratio 0.6). Use this as your master rust map. Connect the rust map to a second Bump2D node with a bump value of about 0.1 and pipe it into your main Bump2D node's Normal Camera.
To the master rust map, add a remap ramp with two colors. Pipe in your master color into color 1, and make color 2 a rusty shade (I found that full saturation worked best). Pipe the remap ramp into the color channel of your shader.
Finally, you want to switch off the specularity for the rust, so add a contrast node to the master rust map (contrast = 0.1), and a multiply/divide node after that (multiplying by 0.65). Pipe that into your Specular Color channel.
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Claymation 600 posts06 Feb 2008Ditto what Christian said.
I think your attempts so far look great!
It might help to make some quick models like in your reference image to test your shaders on, instead of the simple primitives. You'll get a better idea of what exactly isn't working. -
06 Feb 2008Thanks for the help, i'll try making that now.
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