Yeah I would make gold warmer and brighter, brass would be darker and not as shiny. Bit of green like Eric suggests would work well too. For silver I'd tend to make it brighter, bluer and more shiny than steel. Steel would be dark grey maybe even with some brown in the diffuse. I think you can come up with some good quick…
Overbright is my first impression. More reflection and less diffuse... metals are mostly reflection, they respond much less to diffuse light than do dull/matte surfaces. Also more segments needed for the teapot handle.
Thanks for the input. I am planning on doing some cubes or spheres, maybe this weekend when I've actually got some time to kill. Here's my latest object for the mod. Silver teaset, it has a slight blue diffuse that I think helps it alot. So I think I've got silver, but I'd like comments on it. By schwaa at 2007-08-26