Stainless Steel Look

[cls designs]

Work'n late again. Anyone want to share their best material and settings to achieve a good stainless steel look (appliance) in a raytrace render view. I'll try to attatch a pic of my latest kitchen...says it's too big:mad: again! Help with resizing images? Thanks............Chris

[DougM]

I use "SNAGIT"to quickly resize an image for uploading. It's costs but you can download a demo for 30 days.

Doug

[homeview]

hi chris,

a good one is in angelas texture files which are on chief portal.
my suggestion is metals-silver tones-metal 01jpg
for most renders/ vrmls the simple setting of bright/shiny works well as long as you don't use too many lights then you will have to play with the advanced settings to suit.
for raytrace a bit of reflectivity helps, again depends on no of lights and orientation
oh yeh, size jpg as stretch to fit.
look forward to seeing the finished product.
brian

[Tim O'Donnell]

for SS you don't really need a texture, just use a gray color and set the shininess, diffuse, etc to yield the results you want

[dgavin]

Here is a hood with the following attributes:

gray color, medium brightness, shiny, about 80% reflectivity on RT tab.

I use different settings if I want it for rendering.