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How to Make Photorealistic Materials: Metal

How to Make Photorealistic Materials: Metal

Blender Guru 2016-07-13 13:21 tutorial  > Blender  > texturing

Using laws from the real world to make metal that actually looks like metal.

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Top image by Mateusz Wielgus.

Author: Blender Guru
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