i need to know what to use as metal textures. i include "metals.inc" but dont know what to call the texture for adding to my object (like the t_stone24 thing)

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Indeed.

You can name your textures whatever you want. If you're working from the default includes, though, just be sure not to mistake texture{} statements for finish{} statements.

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So open up metals.inc and read it.

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what i mean is, what do i put in to make my object look metal
cone {
<-3,0,0>, .5
<3,0,0>, .5
texture { } <---here
}
i cannot open metals.inc

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Originally posted by HandicapParking:
**what i mean is, what do i put in to make my object look metal
cone {
<-3,0,0>, .5
<3,0,0>, .5
texture { } <---here
}
i cannot open metals.inc

**

Opening metals.inc is the only way you're going to learn what the names of the textures are. Just double click on it, or open it with BBEdit or Simple/TeachText. After you learn the names of the texture that you want, you then stick it in between the texture brackets. Also, I think that you're going to want a comma between the first coordinate and the second coordinate. I'm not sure what's necessary and what's not, but separate those lines with commas: <-3,0,0>,.5,<3,0,0>,.5. Yea. Good luck.

Matrix

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