[question] WHich mat would you use for this?

[neo0.]

Im trying to accurately recreate these bullets.


I used cu.nk for the top part and it looks fantastic. Im stuck on the bottom part though. I used the brass mat fromthe db and it's just not reflective enough and its a bit too much on the yellow side... Not metallic enough.

[PureSpider]

Dude why don't you try stuff yourself just once?
Especially for the mat from the matdb it would be only about changing the blend factor (duh!)

[Lord of the Rings Junkie]

Try making it a blend of gold and copper; that should work pretty well.

[neo0.]

Thanks, that was just it. Only problem is that it gives me these black blotches..

[fused]

nice.

about the "black blotches": do you mean the black reflections on the bullets?
this is because your background is totally black, use an exr, sunlight or build a closed room around your scene to avoid it.

[CTZn]

That's the environment of the scene, reflected

There is one basic physical rule wich it is important to know, wich says that if a material reflects 80% of the light it receives, then one can't see more than 20% of it's diffuse component, because

In physics, the law of conservation of energy states that the total amount of energy in an isolated system remains constant.

Your metals look perfect to me

[neo0.]

Hahaha, whoops. I'll go with the closed environment.