[KurtS]

You're completely right, we want your incredible black plastic.... but I would say more, we want also the lcd screen, the perforated metal of the speakers, we want all the materials you use in your wonderful renders hyltom!
Pack them all and post them here please

actually - it would be a great idea to let hyltom (and other masters) have their own pro-section at the MXM gallery.

[ivox3]

Not sure that's such a good idea Kurt ...

If you think about it, ..nobody and I mean nobody would ever not want to use a 'Pro' material. So, ..then what's to become of all the non-pro materials? Will people even submit a material if it's not 'pro' ?

The original voting system was loosely meant to eventually help elevate certain materials into that 'higher' class, but the operative word is 'loosely' and still remains largely a subjective system of classification.

The whole thing is messy to me, .. on one hand you have materials that are physically accurate to the nth degree and others that aren't as accurate, but still look damn good. Both produce high aesthetic results -- do we classify them together? ...or separate based on accuracy?

In the end, I still think that despite the potential messiness, ..that just lumping them all together and letting the voting system do it's thing is presently the best system.
Just let the cream rise to the top.
Always does ......


PS. Although, .. I do believe that the MXM is in desperate need for better categorization of materials and that the ability to search by color should be dealt away with ----it's cute, but it doesn't make any sense.
Also, ..a small contextual render should be required. Lastly, .., the words 'tileable or non-tileable' should always be in the mxm description unless obvious (decals, objects etc..)




Two bits and then some ...


Sorry hyltom if this starts some kind of debate within your thread. We can take it elsewhere ......

[Bubbaloo]

We can take it elsewhere ......

Outside?

[ivox3]

Yes, ..but it was implied. You coming ?

[hyltom]

Tom: i agree with you, the chrome doesn't looks pretty good.....I will change that.

Adrian: The LCD come out good, it's true, but frankly speaking i haven't assign any maxwell material to it . It's an automatic conversion of the rhino material.

Ivox: no worries...just want to tell you that i like the "search by color" in the mxm library...i already used it few times.

In 8 hours i will post an updated render. I have changed the texture projection for the black plastic to avoid the "dust". I have modified a little bit the LCD, and i have made my own material for the speaker grid (the one before was from the mxm library). I have also removed the chrome part and used a kind of silver painting instead.

See you soon...

[hyltom]

Disappointed! The change i made on the texture projection of the black plastic gave me something worst. So the image above is a mix of the previous one and the one of last night. So no big changes in this new image, just some new speaker grid and the silver ring.

[Bubbaloo]

Still looks great!

[hyltom]

[iker]

Great! ....again

[Fernando Tella]

This last one is the best to my eyes.

Also I didn't notice its real shape till this shot.

[contact7]

Come on now, it looks more than real...

How did you manage to get the shadow under the LCD? you know under the battery icon etc?

Mark

[Mattia Sullini]

You are boring...not a single fault, again!

[simmsimaging]

Not sure what you had in mind, but that material looks great to me!
b

[hyltom]

Mark: the icons are some geometry (not a map) so they are a little bit far from the background.

Mattia: thanks, but there is some fault, mainly due to my poor mapping skill

Brett: why do you say this...it doesn't looks real? Please tell me more, i have to understand what's wrong if i want to improve my material.

[djflod]

hyltom your work is simply awesome ... i think Bretts Post is nothing more than irony ... I love all of your materials ... maybe we will see more of them in the MXM Gallery *wink*