PovRay Rendering of chrome parts

[Sven v. Beuningen]

Hi,

does someone have tried to render a part with one of the chrome colors (60, 61, 62, 63)? If I try this I get pure white bricks.
I exported the brick with ldview to povray and it seems that something is wrong with the LDXChromeRefl parameter. I changed it from 0.85 to 0.6 and my brick is at least visible.
Con someone confirm this?

Best Regards

Sven

[Damien Roux]

Do you have something to reflect in your scene? Othetwise it will reflect nothing, so that's maybe why you have a blank part.

[Sven v. Beuningen]

Hi Damien,

hmm good point. I just tried to render a single brick. Which might be some kind of special situation.

[Niklas Buchmann]

I tweaked the lg_colors.inc to make chrome parts look like this (chrome air horns on the roof of the trucks) and I'm quite happy with the result:


LEGO MAN TGM/ Metz L32 Ladder - Drehleiter by Niklas-B, auf Flickr

LEGO MAN TGM Heavy Rescue Truck - Rüstwagen by Niklas-B, auf Flickr

If you're interested, I can give you the file or the values I used.