This video shows the creation process for the material used to make Snap’s armor plates. Covered here, the material itself made in Mental Ray in 3Ds Max, and the texture creation and manipulation done in Mudbox and Photoshop respectively.
R6 – Snap armor material tutorial from Snowball Studios on Vimeo.
Round 6 website:
http://www.round6.net
the Round 6 development blog:
http://round6construction.blogspot.com/