cwkoch

TAVO
About the chrome material, i've been playing with reflection maps and you can get the same result as the video, apparently older versions assigned a defaul enviroment material but not in recent ones (9.1.244), not sure. I will have to read “changes from previous versions” more often

Well, I was using 9.5.134 when I first got the same result as the video tutorial, then it broke. Also, I have never been able to see “changes from previous versions” as I *always* get and error “Incorrect Version!”

rmagee
The best solution is for us to get an environment map onto the chrome material. There are several available but we just haven't updated the material. Thanks for the reminder.

So, I'm not crazy, thanks! Now I have to learn how to apply the environment map.

Did I mention that the more I learn Houdini, the more I *LOVE* it??? Makes any other 3D app seem like a toy

Well, it makes sense. However, as I mentioned before, when I first followed the video tutorial (from the sidefx video tutorials) one wasn't needed. The preview would show the chrome material just fine. In the tutorial, the spoon is modeled and applied the material without an environment map and it worked just fine as I followed it.

Something happened along the way and the material got corrupted or something. If you look at the tutorial, there's no extra step after applying the chrome material. 2 days later, I went to follow the tutorial again because something I was trying to do reminded me of the tutorial and that's when I noticed that the metallic materials had changed.

Again, I don't know if there is a way for me to damage the material library. But even after reinstalling the software twice it still doesn't show the materials the same way as they were…

Ok, haven't gotten an answer…This is really frustrating as I have uninstalled and reinstalled it. Maybe you guys can't picture what I mean, so here's a screen capture of the materials. You can see that they are wrong.

Any ideas?