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Esper
 Post subject: Lighting Effects/Chrome freehand
PostPosted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 4:10 am  (#1) 
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after seeing one of GnuTux's LE environment mapped examples, i was thinking if i could do that by hand

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so i made a texture by filling elliptical selections, to get the same look
which resulted in this text

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and after chrome curves, it looked like this

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Rod
 Post subject: Re: Lighting Effects/Chrome freehand
PostPosted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:07 am  (#2) 
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Esper wrote:
after seeing one of GnuTux's LE environment mapped examples, i was thinking if i could do that by hand

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so i made a texture by filling elliptical selections, to get the same look
which resulted in this text

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and after chrome curves, it looked like this

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Very realistic looking results. :)

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ek22
 Post subject: Re: Lighting Effects/Chrome freehand
PostPosted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 2:30 pm  (#3) 
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Looks boss, I like curved gradients, they give it more depth.

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he4rty
 Post subject: Re: Lighting Effects/Chrome freehand
PostPosted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 4:57 pm  (#4) 
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On the whole the effect looks good, just a bit from the curve part of the gradient on the C & M looks a bit odd.

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Esper
 Post subject: Re: Lighting Effects/Chrome freehand
PostPosted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:25 pm  (#5) 
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he4rty wrote:
On the whole the effect looks good, just a bit from the curve part of the gradient on the C & M looks a bit odd.
whats C & M ?
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fluffybunny
 Post subject: Re: Lighting Effects/Chrome freehand
PostPosted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:52 pm  (#6) 
Esper wrote:
he4rty wrote:
On the whole the effect looks good, just a bit from the curve part of the gradient on the C & M looks a bit odd.
whats C & M ?

I think they are referring to the letters 'C' & 'M' Esper. ;)
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Esper
 Post subject: Re: Lighting Effects/Chrome freehand
PostPosted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:59 pm  (#7) 
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fluffybunny wrote:
I think they are referring to the letters 'C' & 'M' Esper. ;)

oh...
right !
silly me :mrgreen:

yeah he4rty, i agree about that !

actually, the whole idea is coming from this:
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Metallic- ... -325231937
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