Sorry admins, don’t really know where to put this but I guess it’s finished as in “successful”.
Anyways, I was just playing around with Blender and I manage to get this golden nugget effect, don’t know if anyone wants it but here’s what it looks like:
Hope you all like it 
Wolf
can we get the blend file? 
Someone who’s been here as long as you are should know better.
Shame on you.
Now go stand in the corner.
Btw. that’s no ‘golden nugget’ effect, but more like a ‘weird-bright-yellow-puke’ effect.
Yeah you can have the blend file but . . .
how to I give it to you?
I don’t know how to send it to you.
Upload it to a site like Rapidshare or something (it’s free) and then post that link.
Nice effect.
I have to agree. Maybe put a little bit more work into it?
Try turning down the spec, nor.
Seriously, I’m not saying mines any better but if you call that gold then I’m going to hang myself.
This is true gold colour:
Yes, it may look like yellow shit but that’s because I used the same material for a bigger model, i.e. I didn’t change the noise size when I enlarged Suzzanne. As you can see, my gold material looks fine on the UV sphere there.
hafuuni,
I think it needs to be a tinge more orange, judging from these photos.
djbjrca
Sorry, I couldn’t get rapid share working, don’t know how to navigate that site.
Here’s what I got by making it more noisy:
and this is what I got with 3-point lighting + 1 extra colour leak lamp:
Not all gold is rough. Solid gold(rings, etc) look like my picture. I never said yours was bad. I was just providing another gold material since it relates to the topic.
Sorth, yes not all gold is rough, but most is so I think he should stick with rough.
I wasnt trying to be rude above… but, like i said, i was just providing my material since it relates to the topic. btw, i think the monkey in your pic looks a little grainy and the texture looks a little repetitive. And the light is a tiny bit off. Other then that its not bad imho.
I bring you… rough gold!
and another example of this material:
download material @ http://poxy.us.to/blender/gold-material.rar if you want.
I never said you said mine was bad.
It’s fine that you’re providing another gold material, I’m cool with it. %|
I like the reflective/lusture of that gold in your picture, that “oily” look I mean. I’ve been trying to get that oily lusture in the past. 
The gold you’re talking about is refined gold. It’s been smooth and polished, that’s why it’s not rough. You don’t wear a gold ring that’s sharp and rough right?
Solid gold looks like your picture did you say? Can you see the big contrast between the two colours?
Here’s a site below for more gold rings etc:
Yes my Suzzanne’s texture is a bit repetitive but it’s a procedural texture, not UV-mapped and yes, my lighting sucks.
Wolf
Solid gold looks like your picture did you say? Can you see the big contrast between the two colours?
Taking into account the work that you just posted, the work that you considered suitable for ‘finished projects’, I don’t think you should be giving material advice to anyone :o
I never said it was suitable for the finished projects, I said explicitly:
"Sorry admins, don’t really know where to put this but I guess it’s finished as in “successful”. "
“finished” not “finished projects”.
I also wasn’t giving material advice to anyone. I offered a material. Where did I write “here’s my advice to you for improving your gold material” or “try to increase the reflectivity or nor and you’ll have a better picture” ?
If you think:
“Seriously, I’m not saying mines any better but if you call that gold then I’m going to hang myself.”
is advice then you’re sadly wrong. That’s my view and opinion about that gold material, not my advice. I didn’t say “oh go and fix this and fix that”.
Uh. . . no worries I guess %|
Wolf
Listen to the Silversmith here:
gold colors are different depending on the alloy.
you have red, yellow and white gold.
that is important to know for the material color because gold is not gold.
also depending on the surface treatment you have different specular highlights and reflection values.
metal can be sandblasted, sanded, brassbrushed, silicon polished, or hammer textured.
polished metal give very clean and hard specular highlights.
sanded and sandblasted give very defuse highlights and reflections.
claas
haha, cekuhnen, can I have your email so I could turn to you if I have any Chemistry concepts I’m unsure on? 
I thought gold as in nuggets were pure? 100% Au? %|
The gold I saw in the Australian Mint (gold meseum) we’re golden gold, as well, they were very sparkly.
One final question though - what’s a "Silver"smith doing teaching about gold? =P
