Silvery Material

[Anonymous]

I am making an engagement ring, and I'm trying to make the material for the ring itself. I am having troubles making a silvery material that is shiny but not reflective. I'm only a second year student, so my knowledge of materials is pretty limited. I know how to use textures off the internet, and how to use physical materials a little bit, but neither of these are giving me the results I'm wanting, and YouTube is no help. all i can find is videos using Vray, which is not an option for me sadly.

[madsd]

If you use Arnold, I can help.

Use a bit of roughness in the specular roughness component.

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[Anonymous]

Where exactly is the Specular Roughness?

[madsd]

You can use 2 materials with Arnold.

Physical Material & Arnold Standard Surface.

The 2 slots you are interested in controlling regarding reflection sharpness and blur are highlighted with the green arrows.

Maybe show an example of a ring surface you want to replicate to make it easier to debug.

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[Anonymous]

I'm trying to go for a color like this ring.

[madsd]

Found some random ring on the net.
So you want to work with the Specular_roughness to give the ring a more blurry reflection, you can add micro scratches, but the image you show reveals no such this, it shows a glossy reflective surface.

IOR for diamond is 2.42, you can add cromatic aberation in the additional parameters to get rgb structures into the diamonds.

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[Anonymous]

If you need to make any metal material .. you don't need a texture from internet 

just follow these steps 

1 . chose the defuse color of your material ,, selver you have to choose gray color 

2 . make reflection to the material .. and the most important thing .. copy the defuse color to the reflection color 

this will make realistic reflection to your material 

3 . if you use vray ... don't choose fresnel reflection ... make it unchoos 

4 . chose your material tips " ward " 

for texture use raghness