Metal texture Help please!

[DHudson]

Hello, I have an image of a metal texture and I need to match it for a project. If anyone could give me a suggestion as to how to go about making this antique nickel, I would really appreciate it. I have watched tutorials on how to make the base nickel metal texture, but it needs those little irregular lines on it to "antique" it. Thank you for any assistance.

[^Lele^]

You can try and adapt some texture from materials from Cosmos, or make yourself a procedural one, by stretching a noise (either in UV space, or in 3d space.) and sharpening its cutoff.
The same texture could then be used to drive anisotropy rotation/amount, specular roughness, and if you have to get up close, also a smidgen of bump (via vrayColor2Bump texture.).
You could also use the texture as mask to characterise the shader further (i.e. color and such.).
You'll probably need a bit more than the original Max Noise, and if that is the case you may find stuff like SigerNoise useful (not an endorsement.).

[DHudson]

Thank you for the response, Lele. I'm struggling a bit to keep up with you, sorry. How do you sharpen the noise's cutoff? Is noise the same as a bump texture?

[^Lele^]

I've attached you a max file.
Notice i left bump off, while it's set up properly, because it's not needed, i think.
Replace the HDR image in the dome light with one you have, or one from Cosmos (i am not sure i have the rights for the one i used to go around.).
Not that it being reflective, most of its look will come from the choice of HDR probe, and/or lighting.

[DHudson]

Lele, you are awesome! Thank you so very much.