Where are the "New Metallic Shaders" in VW2012

[billtheia]

Can someone out there point me to the "New Metallic Shaders" in VW2012? I looked at the Textures_Metals Plastics Glass file and the textures appear to be exactly the same as they were in VW2011.

Am I looking in the wrong place?

[rDesign]

Bill-

I read this on page 25 in the 'Fundamentals_2012.pdf' (included in the Vw2012 installer package):

Improved metallic shader:

Internal adjustments have been made to improve the appearance and visual effect of the Metallic reflectivity shader

So it sounds like you have to make a new RW texture to see any improvements.

HTH.

PS. I've often wondered if Nemetschek Vectorworks bothers to update the provided RW Textures when they release a new version (which certainly should have done when they switched over to the Cinema 4D engine).

[Jonathan Pickup]

So it sounds like you have to make a new RW texture to see any improvements.

any texture that uses the Metallic shader will now be improved when you open it in Vectorworks 2012