aluminum

[val2]

my attempt at aluminum, I think it's close I think.
also playing with dof
(the floor is from maxer, thanks man)
just a little color/light correction in PS
it's a close up of the mechanism for a sculpture/object i'm thinking about.

[natty]

yeah i think you have got it spot on ......congrats dude ..

[Da_elf]

sweeeeeeeet lovely render

[ziarno]

very very very nice
realy nice shaders

[tom schuelke]

Yes real nice

only suggestion, the floor looks a bit plastic due to the strong highlights.

[thablanch]

It is really, but really nice...

[natty]

you know the coming request dont you !! ...

[Da_elf]

i like the floor. i figured it was one of those plastic tile floors and that kinda looks like the resin or something.

[J_Bug]

PERFECT

--Jon

[yage]

beside the floor i don't like - really nice.

[val2]

thanks all,

well i would like to say the floor is supposed to be plastic but I just screwed up on my bump and reflection ( i kind of liked the look of it though as that vynil floor thrown down in peoples kitchens)

the render took forever, 6 hours 2048*1556

the settings are really simple, no lights, HDRI in both gi and reflect/refract that's it. hehe.
IR first all default except I dropped Interp samples to 10
QMC second
cook Variable AA adaptive subdivision default.
the thing that was interesting me was the camera settings
the dof is .1, center bias -2 (I think that setting is really low as I can't really see it)

[val2]

oh yah if anyone is interested the aluminum is a shellac

the settings are

I just moved some numbers around from deetee's compilation.mat file
it's his carpaint gloss layer.