Hi Brian,

that looks cool. These are procedurals? It looked like you have painted them.
Do you know if there is ambient occlusion involved? It seems so, because the dirt is concentrated on the edges.

Unfortunately Maxwell doesn`t have an AO-shader. I will add a dirt and a rust-layer to the railling material and hope it will look good.
It won`t look as good as your materials as the rust &dirt will be placed more or less randomly and not controled by the AO-shader.

The only other way would be to paint the materials. I`ve just tried to make one untiled material for the lower staircase only, but cinema didn`t stop with calcualting the UV`s so i had to abort it after 10 minutes or so.

But thanks for the examples. Your work is really inspiring and rips me out of my lazyness not to do much more with my scene.

cheers
vinced