Fine detail Ring Material

[TpwUK]

Tried creating a material suitable for fine detailed metal/jewellery work. What do you guys think ?

Material Breakdown:
Metal
Curvature
Occlusion
Cellular
Fractal Noise
Scratches

Martin

[Speedster]

Wow!  Spot on for Fine Pewter.  Are you willing to share the details and Graph screenshots?
Bill G

[Despot]

Have you been taking those rendering pills again Martin ?

Seriously, nice render, although a lot of the features you used seem to be lost visually, unless my old, tired eyes are failing me

J

[TpwUK]

@ Bill - Graph node editor screen thingy attached

@ Metal Master - Nahhh your tired old eyes are fine, just the scaling used. The scratches bump could do with a little more tweaking but i was after a noise/roughness thing rather than a beaten up look.

Will do another render with more scratch showing just to see what it plays like 

Martin

[Despot]

Hmm, OK

[Speedster]

just the scaling used.

Very interesting point.  Most of us "over-scale" textures, and I'm the worst culprit. Subtle textures are better, I think, depending of course  on the target render size.  Always curious, I just took my great-grandfathers 18k gold signet ring out of the safe, and actually, despite over 100 years, the scratches are subtle.  Ditto a pewter plate we have.  Less is more, IMO!
Bill G

[TpwUK]

A little more scratched detail

Martin

[Josh3D]

This looks fabulous!

[TpwUK]

Thanks Josh

Martin

[Despot]

Yea !! scratches... nice

J