I was wondering how to create a chrome surface with VOPs… I believe there is a chrome rman shader in houdini but I prefer to use mantra…

I was thinking something to do with a photon surface and reflective VOP….but I am not an expert by all means…

any help would be appreciated.

I'm not sure how fancy you want it but there's already a default chrome shader that comes with Houdini. From the top Tools menu, choose “Shader Palette”. In the dialog that comes up, click on Jump and choose $HFS/houdini/shop/palette. Then under Directories, choose metals. Click on chrome and then on the Create SHOP button. Now you have gvop_chrome SHOP that you can apply it to your objects/geometry.

Thats a good start and I appreciate the help….but I really enjoy creating everything with VOPs…. any suggestions?

I assume you've looked at the Chrome Environment VOP?

(BTW, it's VOP subnet, so dive inside it and see how it works)

sweet……..great amount of information in the depths of that one…