I have no idea of why the “color wheel” graphic is showing through as if the part is transparent… but here is a current render, fwiw. (lots of work left)

This is rendering with Softimage XSI??

Fillets are very important for shows specular running over surface, specially on close-up.

My advice is which you activate property by property for control independently. For example deactivate, specular, tranaparency, reflection, translucency and self-luminosity, and working with diffuse. When you are satisfied with diffuse, activate specular and adjust it, then activate reflection, etc.

When you have more experience with a same shader, you can manipulate a combination of properties at same time with precision.

Yes, render (region) with Softimage|xsi 6.02.

My immediate problem is getting rid of the apparent transparency of the objects. I have turned off transparency everywhere I can find a setting for it in the material manager render tree.

Maybe it has something to do with the texture projection?

H’mm the image is on both sides of the object. How do I get rid of it on the bottom of the disk? Back to the help files…

Got rid of the transparency by just dragging a platinum material preset to it.

Still don’t understand how to get rid of the projection on the bottom of the disk.

Fwiw… and to provide an “audit trail"… I figured out why it was on both sides… I believe it was part of the material instead of projecting on the material via a texture map. Anyway, here is the fix…

Any suggestions or tips on adding condensation to the can to make it look more realistic?