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bare metal

PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 10:54 pm
by turbo_skylane
i have photoshop 7, and i would like to know how to do bare metal finishes.

Re: bare metal

PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:10 am
by wji
I submit bare-metal textures are artistic creations like any other visual effect. (To create chrome make the blacks 100 percent opacity) before converting to DXT3.
JPEG MS DC-3 Sample bare metal

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Re: bare metal

PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:13 pm
by turbo_skylane
best i got was Image

Re: bare metal

PostPosted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:41 pm
by lh211
handpainting bare metal is art, not dumping a crapload of alpha all over the bitmaps

bare metal is among the hardest (if not the hardest) things to be good at

Re: bare metal

PostPosted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:50 pm
by Felix/FFDS
Turbo - now start varying the opacity of the alpha until you get the "sheen" you want....