So anyone interested in some basic plastic materials?



You can download them from here. I'm just curious to see how you use them.

Thanks John! Colin can we get a pointer to these?

Nice. Thanks!

Thanks John... those are awesome!
Everyone should have these in their materials toolbox.

Thanks for the comments, people. I figured that we could use a basic material set that the user could then alter to suit their needs. The color settings and names were culled from some POV-Ray file I had, but all other settings in the materials were created by myself.

Everytime, I look at the image I get the urge to play with rigid bodies dynamics. Hmmmm.....

For those interested I've embedded all John's materials into a project file.
Amazingly these materials only weigh in at 35KB (uncompressed!) for the whole group!

Note to downloaders: The project file is in the standard text format of .prj files. In some cases you may need to right click and "Save Target As" ensuring the file is saved with the .prj extension. It may take a little while for A:M to open all the materials on some systems.

John,
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Thanks ROdney! I didn't have a mac so this helps.

Tom

A:M Materials are just too much fun.

Thanks Rodney. I thought I had a copy of DropZip on my Mac (StuffIt's .zip compressor), but apparently, my copy of StuffIt only comes with DropStuff. One comment about your project, on my 867 MHz PowerBook (32 Mb graphics card), it took around 15 minutes to open the project. This is a combination of all the materials being in open windows when the project opens and both ATI and nVidia making really poor drivers for their cards on the Mac. Of course, ATI and nVidia claim that it's Apples fault, but that's for another thread.

Once again, thanks for creating an alternate download option for the PC people.

Oh these are really nice and very useful thank's a lot Bill

Why is it that all our time is spent trying to get our models to look less plastic-y, and yet we need to go to all this trouble to make them look like plastic...?

-Zev

I really needed this. Always looking for plastic. I created versions with icons for libraries (what a pain!) -- PC same as Mac??? I don't know. Can post if anyone wants.

Rusty

Anyway anyone could post the file as a zipped version?

I don't have the stuffit software.

Looks great.
David

Go and click the original link. I've just added a .zip version.

Thanks HB

Looks great on a sphere, but how does it hold up on a flat surface? I'm having alot of trouble getting a specular hit on a flat surface. Anybody have any ideas?

But... how could a completely flat surface even get a specular highlight? Where would it go?

What you'd need in this case would be an environment map for your model to have something to reflect. (Or an actual environment, of course.)