Need Advice on Reflections

jackjames5_59cda37a4c

Hi, thanks for checking in.  I've got a 3D object, a robotic face, that I'm trying to make look passably metallic.  Here's what it looks like now:

No matter what I've tried, I can't get the effect I want.  The surfaces turn out looking like pixellated garbage, or stone, or plastic.  Can anybody offer any pointers?

felis

First of all is this Iray or 3Dlight?

My suggestion is to start of with a metal shader, and then adjust that.

Or if you want to do it from scratch you need (in Iray) to set the metal slider to 1.

chris-2599934

Also, if you've set up the surface to be a shiny metal reflective one, what it looks like is in part dependent on what there is to reflect. So if you're testing it in an otherwise completely empty scene, it's likely to look bad.

jackjames5_59cda37a4c

I guess I probably should have mentioned that I'm using Poser 11.

kenshaw011267

Wrong site for Poser. You want renderosity.

chris-2599934

Poser is fine here. Daz sell assets for use in 3D software, including Poser. But yeah, you should have mentioned it.

Possibly consider moving this thread to the Poser forum at https://www.daz3d.com/forums/categories/poser-discussion , as we're mainly Studio people here.

rrward

jackjames5_59cda37a4c said:

I guess I probably should have mentioned that I'm using Poser 11.

Firefly is not going to give you a beleivable metal look. You'll want to use the Superfly renderer for that. And you'll need a good set of Superfly shaders.