Creating Man-made Materials in Cycles - Blender 2.6 Cycles: Materials and Textures - page 123

Creating an antique bronze material

with procedurals

In this recipe we will create a bronze shader similar to a ruined antique statue:

Getting ready

1. Start Blender and load the file 1301OS_04_start.blend .
2. With Suzanne selected, click on the Mode button in the Camera view
header and choose Vertex Paint ; Suzanne turns a shadeless white color.
3. Place the mouse cursor on the Paint item at the left of the Mode button,
click and select Dirty Vertex Colors , then press T and in the bottom win-
dow of the Object Tools panel set Blur Strength to 0.01 , Dirt Angle to
90 , and check the Dirt Only option.