Chrome Texture

[striker(PANDA) 10]

Hey guys, im just wondering, how do i get a nice grey chrome texture?

Ive been fiddleing around with the rvmats but its not working how i want it to work...

Thanks

[Baraka 10]

I only now a very cheap way: Use a simple grey colour und use the "reflective_glass.rvmat" in O2. U get a nice shining. U can use this with every texture aswell but for an simple effekt a colour from the O2 "e" option will do it.

Guess a super shader will be better but don´t ask me how to do.

[striker(PANDA) 10]

Emm your way doesnt seem to work, i select the part i want to colour, i colour it in a grey, i use the rvmat you said, but its just a grey, not shining at all.

[Baraka 10]

try this:

ambient[]={1,1,1,1};

diffuse[]={1,1,1,1};

forcedDiffuse[]={0,0,0,0};

emmisive[]={0,0,0,1};

specular[]={1,1,1,0};

specularPower=57.799999;

renderFlags[]=

{

"NoAlphaWrite"

};

nextPass="bla\glass-pass2.rvmat";

PixelShaderID="Glass";

VertexShaderID="Glass";

class Stage1

{

texture="#(ai,64,64,1)fresnelGlass()";

uvSource="none";

};

class Stage2

{

texture="bla\reflect_co.paa";

uvSource="none";

};

Remember u will need the "reflect_co.paa" and the "glass-pass2.rvmat".

I tryed it a minute ago,it works with every colour! Play with the specularPower to change the effekt.

[striker(PANDA) 10]

Sorry mate, still non of the ideas you have given me are working on my model. It seems its pretty hard to make a chrome like texture.

[Baraka 10]

Sorry for that. But don´t forget: Reflections are IMO not possible.The only way BI give us is the "Reflect_co.paa" as a look-alike-Reflection. U may take another picture as landscape or so. The Specular strenght is sett with a rvmat.

So u will not have so many ways to do it.

How can i paste a picture from my PC? I can show u what i get with the solution above.

[nodunit 397]

Print Screen, should be above the Insert key above the arrow keys.

I got something similar to chrome once by accident, when I was toying with rvmats.. http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee200/NodUnit/Arma%202%20NATO%20retexture/chrometires.jpg but for the life of me I can't remember what slider I changed..it was slider though that much I do remember.

I think it was something to do with the specular map..iirc no rvmat changes would effect certain vehicles and the only way to remove/increase the reflection was to adjust the specular map, alternatively some vehicles such as that humvee I believe succumbed to specular..power, don't hold me to it though.

Edited August 26, 2010 by NodUnit

[Baraka 10]

The specular map is needed when some parts have to shine more than others on one textur. When "all the shine is the same" it´s not needed.

I know how to make screenshots, but i miss a button to show a pic from my pc here in the Forum.

Sorry for my english.

Edit: ok,i made an acc at image-shack:

This is with a low specular-power.

Edited August 26, 2010 by Baraka

[max power 21]

Chrome is 100 percent reflective and has a very high specular power. It is also white, IIRC.

Here is a cube with a supershader with 100% specular power, 100% specular amount, and both channels in the smdi set to white (100% for all pixels).

You can simulate scratches and stuff with disruptions in the smdi, normal, and colour maps.

I think if you had a reflection map with more contrast in it, the effect would be more realistic.

[striker(PANDA) 10]

Wow thats the effect i want in that picture, but how :/

[max power 21]

Wow thats the effect i want in that picture, but how :/

Whoops! I thought I was posting in the arma 2 forums when I posted that. I was a bit sleepy :p Let me see if I can do some research and figure out if we can accomplish this in ArmA.

[striker(PANDA) 10]

Lol np, it seems easy to do in ArmA 2, but harder to make in ArmA 1, hopefully it can be done...

Ive been editing a rvmat for a few days and still no luck... So my best hope is here.

Thanks

[max power 21]

If anyone can pm me with a couple of RVMATs that work in ArmA, I'll get on this chrome thing lickety split.

I need one from glass, and one from some metallic unit, preferably a shiny one.