This is something I was working for a young friend and now it has taken on a life of it's own....I mean I want to get it looking great. I am new to rendering with a few months of playing with simlab I have moved to keshot. This was designed in Alibre Design and then I began to create the textures in simlab, I just got keyshot running last night and I have gone over a few webinars on texturing today. The following is what I got so far, Not sure about my damascus steel texture yet but will keep tweeking it.(http://content.screencast.com/users/Neilreed/folders/Simlab/media/0791cdb2-83c2-474f-8821-73071812611c/Alatnean.jpg)
nice attempt at the damascus
Any ideas on how I can improve it?
What is Damascus steel supposed supposed to look like by the way?
(http://content.screencast.com/users/Neilreed/folders/misc/media/cce36e1a-0880-4720-807f-af8cc8cdfa41/damascus-steel.jpg)
here is a sample pic....
and each piece is going to look different, This is made from the multiple layers of different steels to get the metal.
try using wood gain bitmaps for texture