[Polyxo]

You can find the MXM and map here : www.maxwellrender.fr/biblio/tasse.rar

Thank you roch_fr! I will have a look.

[Xlars]

Fantastic work .. thanks for the information. Man really shows the power of Maxwell (and your skills)

[kkm]

your information was expensive, thank you for your file to share.

kkm

[Leonardo]

ae your dure, you used enough layers???

Amazing stuff btw!!

[iandavis]

regarding the gold issue. I've had similar problems myself. The fix usually is to check the image being used for a background/HDRI. In many cases the aspect is incorrect and environment being reflected is actually distorted. Worst case, one can always do it the old fashion way with a sphere and a good panorama mapped to it.

Another point. put objects or glowing 2D cutouts of images off-camera. Unless those two cups are the only thing in sight. Put a cup, a spoon, other props that will be reflected in the target object and will add that last 1%. Where experienced and eagle-eyed people will look.

BTW. It's a fabulously striking image!

cheers