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Steel texturing

Dutcheeseblend

Dutcheeseblend

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Hi guys!

Well, for my Fokker, I'm struggling with the textures:o I want to create a steel-colored texture for the frontal exhaust ring, but how would I create a texture like that, suitable for FS? I found 'create metal texture' tutorials on the web quite unusable for this matter.
Please, if someone has tricks, tell me. I'm using the GIMP.

Thanks!
 
Do you mean polished metal?


I start with a blueish-gray base color, then drop in some RGB noise (or alternatively HSV noise), then do some horizontal motion blur.
After that, I create new layer and repeat the process, but with vertical motion blur.

You need to experiment with values and base colors, but this should give you a usable result.
 
No problem.

Try it with a spec map.
Desaturate your texture ("average" mode), then add an alpha channel and set "blend environment by specular map alpha" and "use standard reflection map" in GMax' material editor. Play around with the sliders and the alpha channel lightness and you should get a good looking result.
 
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