Brushed Stainless Steel by ronviers

Wow, this by far beats my brushed steel! This looks really lifelike. It doesn't do seamless tiling very well though, and it would be nice if I could change the size of the beveled area. Still really beautiful, congrats!

hmmm, i've seen this somewhere before

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jffe wrote: i've seen this somewhere before

Hehe - even the same preset

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jffe wrote: why have a bevel

Well, the first one didn't have it - and it is optional. Originally it was called a seam.

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ronviers wrote: Originally it was called a seam.

To be more accurate I should have said 'at one point it was called a seam', this fitler has had a lot of iterations.

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jffe wrote: I wonder why the ProfGrads work better in this case

Do you mean for the bump map? Because of FF's design the multiplication of orthogonal gradients are how you achieve flatness in FF-land.

Thanks to Qender this filter now allows for a beveled mirror effect.

And by 'now' I mean tomorrow. 11-6-7

Good one Ron

Once the file was imported I used it to light this panel.

I did the same using this image.
Note; the image used for lighting needs to be twice as wide as it is tall and kept pretty small or it will take a while – the import process is very slow for larger files.
When used as a mirror it might be tricky to get the reflections to match perfectly but when used as metal then close might be good enough.

i think the recommended size from one of the FF team was stated to be 400 x 200. that's not a fixed number, but on a single core, 3 ghz machine, that size is going to take like 10 or 15 minutes. as your file size goes up, so will the rendering time to get your hdri lighting environment. i'm not sure if it's a geometric progression on time, but it wouldnt surprise me if it was. so, keep your .exr files small.

also, remember that the lighting environment 'sphere' only moves laterally, currently. so, if you use an image for the import that is something like a gradient, make sure the gradient is oriented to give you the full benefit of that gradient. and what i mean by that is, let's say you have an image that is a number of horizontal lines. if you use that for the import when you have it in place in the lighting enviroment and you move the sphere, you will have no variation in your environment as you move the sphere. but, if you rotated that image 90 degrees before import so that the horizontal lines are now vertical and imported it that way, when you move the sphere laterally, you would get a change because the vertical lines would now be changing in place, rotating as you rotated the sphere.

cool

well, i've started a thread in the general discussion forum for creating a library of .jpg's to use as .exr's. post whatever images you've used that follow the criteria laid out there into that thread and perhaps we can get a nice library going of good jpg's for lighting environments!

How did you manage to get the different pic into the presets

So can you supply with your filter the HDRI enviroment as part of the filter ? or maybe the answer is self evident

I didn't realize you could supply the image with your filter when submitting it to the library

Your right i never noticed the car before, looking at the gut very clever, I wish Hdri had a zoom and clock rotate they would be very handy, maybe you could make a snippet [ hint hint ]

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ronviers wrote: modeling project

You have to post/or send when finished

Slowly slowly catch the monkey

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ronviers wrote: i'm sure I will be obnoxious about it.

HeHe don't worry I'm very curious by nature

yep looks like it - I really hadn't looked that deeply into the pics - there so much more in them - to pin point exact bits of lighting could drasticly effect textures - I reckon Steve would be interested cause he is not happy about the restrictions of the lighting enviroments,this adds another dimension to lighting effect - your abit of a smarty Ron this has inspired me to try some of my own lighting enviroments [paint up my own even] and it is a shame you can't download them with your filters

local rotation axis local rotation axis local rotation axis

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ronviers wrote: If I could just get two more you will all be stuck with me for life

ooooo noooooo only pulling your leg

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ronviers wrote: A photorealistic texture that is fast is almost certain to go HU in my opinion.

yes I agree totaly, I'd add the words "Photorealistic Real World Textures" -

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ronviers wrote: guaranteed that my Add Atmosphere filter would go HU I

Still backing that prediction - you'll get your lifer no problems