[Phire]

What's the best way to create metallic armor? Do you take an already existing metal texture and draw highlights over it? I cant seem to do that properly, im trying to do bevel type shapes on it too.

[Affected]

Try painting the armor first, without any textures, and then start overlaying the texture on top of it, on new layers set to, say, overlay. :P

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Affected
http://affected.cjb.net

[Funfetus]

The most important part of doing metal is to get the reflections and shading right. Metal reflects light differently than a matte surface -- study whatever metal you happen to have around. Look at your bumper and hubcaps, etc.

Check out the robot in http://funhousedigital.com/fb-tlrs.jpg to see how I handled it. It's not perfect, but it may give you a general idea.

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Funfetus
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[Zymac]

You Might wanna check out http://www.planetquake.com/pandemonium/
He has a very good tutorial on making q2 skins, including how to make good looking metal...