Shiny Metal Materials

[Katalyst777]

Sooo, I've been thinking a bit since seeing this post about trying to bring a bit more realism to the shiny metal materials in Home Designer, and decided to use the same basic method as we use for creating mirror reflections now and combine it with using a thin cabinet partition with the material set to be partly transparent.

I think that if you are willing to put in the time and effort, you could come up with some pretty decent looking metal reflections, if it is worth it to you to put the work in.

(I just realized looking at the screenshot of the Dishwasher that I forgot to reverse the image before importing it as a Material, and applying it to the partition, but you get the idea.)

At some point though, I suppose that upgrading to Chief Premier which has the ray tracing capability might be a better use of one's resources.