Arch & Design Chrome

[TOUGH]

Guys my name is Terry (aka TOUGH)and I am new to the forums. I have recently decided to try my hand at Mentalray using Max 9. I do alot of car renders and scenes for modelers in many forums. I develop many different material techniques but can't seem to get a handle on a nice chrome material using A&D for mentalray. Can anyone direct me to a good tut or be willing to send me a material. Thank you in advance.

 

Terry

[Dave Buckley]

the arch and design chrome preset in max 9 is perfectly fine, it just depends how you treat it as to how it will apear in your scene, chrome needs something to reflect as it has a very high specular attribute, therefore HDR and good specualr lighting would be the key here

[Dave Buckley]

maybe you should post some renders of the material that your getting and the material your trying to achieve? here's one of mine, A&D chrome, HDR, skylight, spotlight, FG

[TOUGH]

Thanks Dave I don't want to have a huge render time and lots of lighting in the scene do to the fact that many of the renders I do are for people who can't render properly so I feel I am helping them out and it get's my name out there. I will attach a render I just did lastnight....the material on the rim however is raytrace with a mix shellac and falloff. Feed back is welcome. Thanks again Dave I will post a render of what I am getting and it's nothing like yours which btw is nice.

 

Terry

[Dave Buckley]

the render time on mine was around 2 minutes (if that), so it doesn't really take that long