CompuServe Messages

Murph, Sometimes if I'm looking for a particular color for a logo or whatever I'll scan in the color. Then I'll use one of two different methods…Either bring the scanned color into a paint package and find it's RGB values and use those as a starting point in your ambient, diffuse, and specular swatches (add luminance to specular and subtract luminance from ambient). See how close that gets you. I've also used the scanned color as a texture map and droped it's slider below 100% so I could further play with the swatches. One of these methods usually gets pretty close. Also if you are using a reflection map try using one with mostly black and white in it. (Chromic2.tif from Inside 3D Studio CD-ROM works great as a ref map) Hope that helps a little, Ralph