sspikedudley
 

about the lights

********* HEY sspikedudley!!!

I just get the basic shape and render it as a chrome material... that's all...

U might notice that I use reflection maps on almost every reflective thing... as a Raytracing+spherical map set up...

I also make the exterior glass of the headlights at 60% spec, 40% gloss, 50% reflective and 50 diffuse with a black color...

That's all... it also depends so much of the ambientation u've got... something that I use to tweak a lot...********

CHEERS MAN!!!

I FORGOT TO SAY!!! that exterior glass of the headlights is 85% transparent...



BTW i did not use radiosity with the last picture...

it took like 3 minutes to render in a very slow pc... I just found the way on other forum...

wanna guess?

after a long time of experimentation I found the way to get faster renders with nice illumination and nice quality... also a weird look...

here's what I've done so far... no updates for the mesh yet... but stay tunned...

another cool render for you guys...

Mmmm - car. Just one niggle is that none of your glass looks quite glassy to me. Beautiful renders though.

Very nice. I see what Fallenswordsman means about the glass though. I'd up the transparency some more and really tighten those specular highlights on the glass surfaces to try and make it look a litte more real.

well.... I really wanted it to look real... but the interior is not finished yet...