Dumb question.

[dibbers]

Sorry to be so dumb, but I'm trying out Vray materials for the first time.

I just want a plain coloured material with a bit os specular on it without reflections, like you can with Std Max materials. How the hell do I do that?

[Candelero]

1/ Use a reflection color or any kind of map.

2/ Then set the highligh glossy less than 1.0, the closer it is to 0.0 the more glossy the highlight will be.

3/ In the option rollout - check off the trace reflection box.


Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[beestee]

Nice to know about that trace reflections check...it always seems to be the simplest things I miss.

[Adam H. Stewart]

Glossy reflections

I thought it was the nearer the number is to 1 the glossier the reflections are ? - nice one about turning off raytraced reflections. That is going to make my life so much simplier - it is true there are no dumb questions.

[RErender]

Re: Glossy reflections

I thought it was the nearer the number is to 1 the glossier the reflections are ? - nice one about turning off raytraced reflections. That is going to make my life so much simplier - it is true there are no dumb questions.

the cg definition differs from the real world definition, in fact they are almost opposites.

[RErender]

All you ever wanted to know about gloss and more http://www.coleparmer.com/techinfo/t...easurement.htm

[arobbert]

1/ Use a reflection color or any kind of map.

2/ Then set the highligh glossy less than 1.0, the closer it is to 0.0 the more glossy the highlight will be.

3/ In the option rollout - check off the trace reflection box.
This should be unchecked or turned off right?

Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[dlparisi]

This should be unchecked or turned off right?

Yes.

[Candelero]

Some explanation more:

As you know the <highlight> is a traced reflected area on the object, where actually the light source (light) is seen, or in other words - the highlight is a reflection of light itself. That's why your material needs to have a reflection value different than 0. Having the traced reflection check-box off, will tell V-Ray to consider only those highlight areas and not actually doing real reflections.

Best regards,
nikki Candelero