Then wonder no more this is how its done.
To start off we need a basic scene so select the default cube and press S then 10 and enter now go to wire frame mode by pressing Z and press SPACE>ADD>MESH>CUBE now with the new cube selected hold shift and press D this will duplicate the cube so go ahead and move the already selected new cube next to the old one and repeat the process so you have 3 small cubes inside 1 big cube now select the big cube and press TAB to go into edit mode in the links and materials tab you will see a grey box with
0 MAT 0 written on it so press the new button located underneath it now the grey box says 1 MAT 1 and it has another small grey box to its left click on this and make a tan colour and move out of the colour box and press the assign button at the bottom of the buttons for the colour selector.
Now select one of the small cubes and repeat the process click new select the colour but make it red and then press assign now repeat this for the other 2 cubes make one of them green and the other one blue.
Now go into top view (numpad 7) and move the small cubes above the red line (G) to grab and re-size them if you want to but stay inside the large cube and that's it scene complete it should look something like this.....
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Now for the object we will be texturing
press SPACE>ADD>MESH>MONKEY add a subsurf modifier and set smooth then re-size (S) to 2 and position it so it covers at least a bit of all the small cubes it should look something like this.....
- monkey base.jpg (29.79 KiB) Viewed 24881 times
GLASS
So to make it look like glass select the monkey press F5 to go into the shading/material tab and press the ADD NEW button now go to the SHADERS tab and set the spec slider to 1.330 and the hard slider to 500 and press the TRASHAD button now go to the mirror transp tab and press the RAY MIRROR tab and move the RAYMIR slider to 0.5 and the FRESNEL slider to 5.
Now press the RAYTRANSP button and set the IOR slider to 1.6 and the FRESNEL slider to 5 and put the DEPTH up to 7 that's it you have made glass so go and turn on AMBIANT OCCULUSION in the WORLD button under AMB OCC and render it.
It should look like this.....
- monkey glass finished.jpg (77.72 KiB) Viewed 24884 times
CHROME
To make it look like chrome go to the materials tab (F5) and select the shaders tab move the REF slider to 1.000 and change the COOKTOR menu to BLINN by clicking on it and selecting BLINN in the drop down menu now put the SPEC slider to 2.00 the HARD slider to 500 and the REFR slider to 6.500 now go into the MIRROR TRANS tab and press the RAY MIRROR button and set the RAYMIR slider to 0.50 that's it render and it should look like this.....
- monkey chrome finished.jpg (34.64 KiB) Viewed 24872 times
GOLD
To make the monkey look like gold go to the materials tab (F5) and select the shaders tab move the REF slider to 1.000 and change the COOKTOR menu to BLINN by clicking on it and selecting BLINN in the drop down menu now put the SPEC slider to 2.00 the HARD slider to 500 and the REFR slider to 6.500 now go into the MIRROR TRANS tab and press the RAY MIRROR button and set the RAYMIR slider to 0.70 now under the MATERIAL tab with the COL button selected put the R and G slider up to 1.000 and the B slider to 0.000 now that's it just render it and it should look like this.....
- monkey gold finished.jpg (35.81 KiB) Viewed 24828 times
BRUSHED ALLOY
Now for the brushed alloy go to the material tab (F5) and press ADD NEW now with COL selected put the R, G and B sliders to 0.200 now go to the SHADERS tab and press the TANGENT button and put the REF slider to 1.000 the SPEC slider to 1.10 and the HARD slider to 200 now go to the MIRROR TRANS tab and press the RAY MIRROR button and put the RAY MIR slider to 0.20 now go to the TEXTURE BUTTONS (F6) and press ADD NEW in the TEXTURE TYPE drop down menu select CLOUDS now in the new CLOUDS menu press the HARD NOISE button and set the NOISE SIZE to 300 now go back to the materials buttons (F5) and go to the MAP INPUT tab press the SPHE button and increase the SIZE Y slider to 75.00 now go into the MAP TO tab and press the NOR button and put the NOR slider to 0.25 now put the R, G and B sliders to 0.350 now just for a clearer view add another LAMP to the scene and that's it all done your rendered image should look like this.....
- monkey brushed alloy finished.jpg (40.32 KiB) Viewed 24814 times
I hope these helped you.
Keep on blending
