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theforce121
03-02-2005, 07:26 PM
Hi all,

I am in the process creating a 3d castle and a sports car in 3dsmax.

The problem is, i can never make anything look real and as good as you guys and gals can. Why is that?

What i want the car to look like.....

I want the car to look really shiny and real and make the tires look real too. How is this usually done. Do i have to take a picture of a real car and map it on? do i have to paint it? and also for the tires do i have to model the the treadmarks individually or is this usually dont via mapping.


What i want the castle to look like....

I want in to look like it is built of individual bricks all put together. Do i have to model each brick and build the castle block-by-block? or do i just put a texture on it?

I am really clueless when it comes to making something look real.

I really just want to know how it is usually done and how.

I hope i dont sound too silly but Please please do try and help me .


Take care and thank you all!!


John
HapZungLam
03-08-2005, 01:45 AM
browse around in cgtalk for some good metalic car shader tutorials. I am not really good at this. Sorry for not able to help.
Snow Fox
03-08-2005, 01:25 PM
Well...
According to the castle I think you should try to find a nice block texture with a good bump...I think that's much better than block-by-block modeling.
Unfortunately I can't help you with the car very much because I have the same problems you have with my car model...I'm also trying to make it look real, specially with the car paint.
Ian Jones
03-09-2005, 11:54 AM
If you are using max6 or later then you can take advantage of the great displacement ability of the built in mental ray renderer to create your castle stones. You build a single object like a wall and then add the displacement map to create the individual bricks. That'll get you great geometry to build a nice texture upon. Do a search in the max help files for regular max displacement, and mental ray displacement.
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