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# 1 25-04-2008 , 03:02 AM
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Some help with lighting black gun metal material

Hi,

I'm modeling a gun and having a little trouble getting the material correct. I've made some ok metal materials previously by creating very dark, low diffuse materials with a fairly high, blurred material. This is black gun metal though.

In the first image, it is lit with an hdri globe. In the second, just a directional light and a light background. Both use FG.

I've tweaked the spec levels, and added varying degrees of reflectivity (blurred in the MR settings) but can't really get something nice.

Does anyone have any experience/advice of creating a nice, black metal material? Is so then please share.

thanks

gubar

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