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12-07-2008, 03:05 PM
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Rep Power: 0  | Question : Glowing hot metal?? Im a First year studying Animation at DMU (leicester) been a long time viewer of articles on here and decided it was time to make myself known. So my first post is a question. Im using Maya 2008 Unlimited and i want to get a "red" hot glowing Metal effect. Ive tried using simple shaders and not really getting the effect i want. Any suggestions or mini tutorials will be creatly appreciated ! |
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12-07-2008, 06:13 PM
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| SkoleSlasken   Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Norway (Trondheim) Age: 21
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Rep Power: 10   | im nut sure what effect you were looking for but would it be somthing like thise two http://www.vray-materials.de/img/sam...ostcat_xl_7779 http://www.vray-materials.de/img/sam...ka_xl_7785.jpg
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12-08-2008, 07:22 AM
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Rep Power: 0 | Its for the post about toasters. Tried my hand at making one,  Also suggestions as to how i might fix The dark part of the shader to the right of the toaster. One of the faces seems to have an edge of shadow around it i cant get rid of :S |
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12-08-2008, 07:27 AM
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Rep Power: 10 | I gues you are using mentalray that comes with maya am i right? About the dark spot thinging it looks to me like a modeling issue. can you post some wire frames of the toaster?
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04-21-2009, 01:14 PM
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Rep Power: 4 | well you could do few things one is to smoth and add some edges to halled the shape and second is to turn on the final gather or even global illumination and high up your quality it should help :) |
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