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aditalwar
08-20-2007, 06:32 PM
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Title: Nissan 300ZX
Name: Aditya Talwar
Country: India
Software: 3ds max, mental ray, Photoshop

This is my first detailed car model.. Made this using 3dsMax.. I tried to give special attention to detail while making the materials for each part.. especially the lights and the side view mirrors.

I know many people think that Vray is the best for this kind of rendering but I just want to prove that good results can be achieved with mental ray also. Plus its Faster :)

I would be very greatful if you could drop in some comments and suggestions.

Note: Thanks to some valuable suggestions I have made some changes to the reflections.
MrArmless
08-21-2007, 03:04 PM
Greets,

Overall I have to say it's a nice model, the modeling is good mats are good also, but I'm not sold on the car paint mat, it seems too reflective and sharp to me. And you're right about mental ray, it can do great stuff, it just has a heftier learning curve to get the right results!

keep it up!
TKMan
08-21-2007, 03:26 PM
nice. the things you focused on are great, but as Mr. Armless said, the car paint is much too shiny/reflective. It also makes the car's steel plates (right word for it??) look very thin, try adding some volume (f.e., layered shader with some refractivity).
Lordstormdragon
08-21-2007, 06:01 PM
...about the paint shader. Did you use the mi_carpaint_phenom or whatever? Give it a shot if you haven't! It's much more sparkly and has tons of options, I'm sure you already know that though...

And I have yet to see any Vray render that mental ray couldn't do much, much faster. As far as I can tell, Vray is horrible for animation due to render times? But I do like Vray renders, too!
aditalwar
08-21-2007, 08:51 PM
Thankyou guys for the suggestions.. I have made some changes now and I guess that you guys should like it .. The only problem is that I am still trying to figure out how to change the current pic with the updated one.. :sad:
Neox3d
08-22-2007, 01:06 PM
i agree with the car paint problem, but mentalray is mush faster than vray and also can have very promising results, hope to see your next one soon
aditalwar
08-22-2007, 06:57 PM
Here are some close-ups of the car.... :D

http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/9122/closeupsat2.jpg

And an old Studio render that I did..

http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/5769/nissan300zxstudiooldoq1.jpg
Lordstormdragon
08-22-2007, 07:03 PM
...that the headlight lens covers are very convincing? The bulbs and interior of your lights are AWESOME, but the glass cover perhaps needs to be just a bit noisier/dirtier to be realistic? As of now, one has to "guess" that it's there, it's so transparent. But I do love how this one's coming along, everything's still just a bit too clean?
himanimation2
08-23-2007, 05:32 PM
I don't know very much about rendering but the modelling is great keep it up! :applause:
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