Re: Help creating a realistic Gold surface.

On 2006-01-23, James <jpayton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am having difficulty creating a realistic gold surface on a Lightwave
> object. It's just a simple logo, but contains mostly flat 90 degree
> edges. For example picture the letter capital "T" in a simple Arial
> font, then extruded. Nothing I seem to do looks right. I've not had
> this much trouble with curved surfaces which I think it part of the
> problem, but I have also never tried working with metallic surfaces in
> Lightwave. I may also be using the wrong type of image for my global
> reflection map? And possibly the wrong size as most of the reflections
> seem very blurry?
>
> The look I'm trying to get is a nice polished ****ny gold surface.
>
> Any guidance or tips to help get me in the right direction would be
> greatly appreciated!!

In general such env-mapped logos look good if you have beveled edges,
instead of flat 90degree angles. Not necessarily curved, just something
like this should do:
__
  \
  |  (excuse the ugly ascii diagram :)
  |
__/

No idea how to do this in lightwave though, I'm no artist, just a
graphics programmer.

-- 
John Tsiombikas (Nuclear / Mindlapse)
nuclear@[EMAIL PROTECTED]