How do you do brushed steel?

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Hi,

I was wondering - how do you guys do brushed steel? Talking about the brushed structure it shows. Where do you put the map? Bump slot? Anisotropic Rotation slot?

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Never into the bump slot, always in the reflection and glossiness slots. Having the texture in the glossiness slots is the most important thing.

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Cheat. If it`s in the background or small in frame, find a decent texture via google and add a bit of reflection. It`s not `proper` but it can be enough.

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I don’t know if this helps, but this particular tutorial scene on the ChaosGroup YouTube channel has some nice looking materials that might work for you as a starting point. https://youtu.be/z-Vu5UcMuF4

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I didn’t know they share scene files over there, thanks for that, definitely gonna have a look into it.