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Aug 7^th, 2005 at 11:54pm

turbo_skylane Offline
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i have photoshop 7, and i would like to know how to do bare metal finishes.

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Reply #1 - Aug 8^th, 2005 at 12:10pm

wji Offline
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I submit bare-metal textures are artistic creations like any other visual effect. (To create chrome make the blacks 100 percent opacity) before converting to DXT3.
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Reply #2 - Aug 8^th, 2005 at 5:13pm

turbo_skylane Offline
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best i got was

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Reply #3 - Aug 10^th, 2005 at 4:41pm

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handpainting bare metal is art, not dumping a crapload of alpha all over the bitmaps

bare metal is among the hardest (if not the hardest) things to be good at

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Reply #4 - Aug 10^th, 2005 at 4:50pm