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| 3D Nuts! Tutorials - Creating gold, silver, and copper materials - Part 2 |
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Open the Material Editor again and select the material below Gold 24K and rename it from 7 - Default to GroundPlane.
Click the small empty quare button next to the Diffuse color, select Checker from the list, and click OK. |
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Set the Tiling to 9 for both the U and the V. Set the W Angle to 45.
Assign the material to the plane object you jsut created (Plane01). You can do this by dragging the material to Plane01 in a viewport, or by clicking the Assign Material to Selection button in the Material Editor. Click the Show Map in Viewport button to display the material in the viewport.
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Rotate the Perspective viewport and zoom in on the ball as shown in the screen shot. Press F9 or F10 to render the Perspective viewport and check out the results.
We used the default lighting setup in this render, but if you do add lights yourself, and you want to make it more realistic, lower down the Refrection value to a minimum of 40 (on the Maps rollout section of the Gold 24K material in the Material Editor).
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Silver looks similar to gold, so we can change the Gold 24K material to a silver material quite easily.
Open the Material Editor and drag and copy the Gold 24K material to the material next to it and change its name to Silver.
Change the Diffuse color to RGB 197,198,200.
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Set the Specular color to white (RGB 255,255,255).
Set the Specular Level to 90 and the Glossiness to 50.
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| Scroll down in the Material Editor and open the Maps section. Change the Reflect level to 70 and click the Map #X (Falloff) button. |
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Change the second color of the Falloff map to RGB 228,229,231 and change the Index of Refraction value to 10.
Assign the material to the sphere object by dragging the material to Sphere01 in a viewport, or by selecting the Sphere and clicking the Assign Material to Selection button in the Material Editor. |
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Press F9 or F10 to render the Perspective viewport and check out the results.
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Now for the last metal in this tutorial: copper. Copper is kinda brown/orange and is less reflective than gold and copper.
Open the Material Editor and copy the Silver material to the material next to it, and rename it to Copper.
Change the Diffuse color to RGB 225,87,51.
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Set the Specular color to white (RGB 255,214,196).
Set the Specular Level to 80 and the Glossiness to 40.
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Change the second color of the Falloff map to RGB RGB 255,214,196 and change the Index of Refraction value to 7.
Assign the material to the sphere object by dragging the material to Sphere01 in a viewport, or by selecting the Sphere and clicking the Assign Material to Selection button in the Material Editor. |
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Press F9 or F10 to render the Perspective viewport and check out the results.
As I mentioned in the introduction, the materials may need a little tweaking to fit your purpose. Try playing around with the reflection values for example. And if you want to make it more realistic, add a scratch map. |
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You can download a matlib file with the gold, silver, and copper material from this tutorial here.
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