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Render Studio Galvanized Steel Sheet
STEG
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Anybody could tell me how I could get a surface to look like real Galvanized Steel Sheet in Render Studio?
I tried to change the parameters for one of the 5 existing Galvanized appearances in the library and the closer I got is shown below.
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For now, I used a stainless steel appearance to get closer to the real look and it is ok for what I needed. But I'd like a better look…
With flat surfaces you really need to have some surface texture/anomalies/fingerprints and also think about lighting. The smudged steel usually works well - you could tone down the shniness a bit (below is the default)
For strongly glossy/reflective appearances like this, even though with very broad highlights, the lighting environment and background will strongly influence the look and feel of the appearance. If the environment doesn't contain much variation (and the default studio lighting is quite neutral), you'll definitely get a flatter look.
The "Stainless steel - Shiny smudged" likely provides a good starting point as noted by STEG above. You would need to increase the "Roughness" parameter of it to get closer to something galvanized. With that and some different lighting I get something like this.
If I go a bit further connect a "Flake noise pattern" function to the "Roughness" parameter to give a variation in roughness rather than being uniform I get this.
In that example I changed the "Scale" parameter of the flake texture to 0.001 and the "Density" to 2. I also used the rounded corners option in the stainless steel appearance just so the edges catch the highlights.
@Paul_Arden I'll have a look at it and give it a try.
Thank you!
Yeah the built-in "Zinc Galvanized" is only good a representing a hot dipped part but galvanized sheets are way shinier.
Using the flake noise pattern for the roughness looks great (I'll have to remember this)!