Rigel
30th January 2008, 09:13 AM
I recently obtained a Premiere Membership and the first thing I downloaded from the Premiere content were the metal preset textures provided by Ed Giddings.
They are amazing! You drop one onto any object and it immediately looks like a piece of metal.
So I decided to show off two of them (I think there are eight in total). My LightWave content CD included a chess set. I built a new board for the set (the original had less than 100 polygons) but left the chess pieces as is. I then applied Ed's bronze preset to the dark pieces and the chrome preset to the light pieces. The textures on the chrome needed some tweaking as the scale was too large for the chess pieces, but that was no big deal.
Then I set it inside of a 1 kilometer diameter sphere, with a winter scene photo mapped to it, set up three lights on the scene, added radiosity (Background Only) and hit the F9. This is the result.
They are amazing! You drop one onto any object and it immediately looks like a piece of metal.
So I decided to show off two of them (I think there are eight in total). My LightWave content CD included a chess set. I built a new board for the set (the original had less than 100 polygons) but left the chess pieces as is. I then applied Ed's bronze preset to the dark pieces and the chrome preset to the light pieces. The textures on the chrome needed some tweaking as the scale was too large for the chess pieces, but that was no big deal.
Then I set it inside of a 1 kilometer diameter sphere, with a winter scene photo mapped to it, set up three lights on the scene, added radiosity (Background Only) and hit the F9. This is the result.