I am having problems with materials. I downloaded the texture cd andwhen I opene up the chrome texture and rendered it all I get is a shiny black sphere, What is wrong. Thanks in advance
chrome needs something to reflect. a chrome ball in space has nothing to reflect, so it looks black. Put a purple cube next to it.
Or use a blend texture set to reflection coordinates if you don’t want to make a whole scene for it to reflect.
Or use a texture for the world. Like a HDRI or something. This obviously affects all the other objects in the scene as well.