silver leaf material?

[christina]

I am looking for a silver leaf type material map. Does any one have a good
site to find metalic materials?

[Peter Tocco]

My advice would be to avoid the metal materials that come with viz. If you
want good reflective metal, start with a raytrace material and tone down the
reflection and add a bump map. A good place to get raytraced materials is
in the sample files that come with Viz 3. I'm not sure what "silver leaf"
is. Is that engraved patterns?

Peter

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[christina]

thanks.....I haven't been really impressed with the standed metals in viz
either, but I will try the raytraced.
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[ted boardman]

>>thanks.....I haven't been really impressed with the standed metals in
viz<<

Christina,

The problem is in lighting and surface shape. If you see a decent
metallic material on the Sample Sphere it will probably look entirely
different in different lighting and will certainly look different on a
flat surface if it uses Reflect/Refract map.

You most always have to adjust for your scene. Use the material as a
guide only.

Ted

[Daniel Pero]

Try get some really good Metallic materials here:
ftp://tdp.nu/pub/Matlibs/

those DvE*.* materials are really good
/DP

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[christina]

thank you. those are some good metals. i appreciate the tip.
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