CGTalk - Vehicle: HDRI Jag

JeffPatton

05-16-2003, 05:13 AM

I needed some vehicles to populate a city I am making. I wanted a really nice one for close ups. So, since I am unable to make a really nice car for closeup shots (still learning how), I bought one from turbosquid.

I am finally making headway with my paint material (any tips to make it better?). Now if I can just get the glass to not distort soooo much. At any rate, whomever made the car model itself did a wonderful job. I hope to be able to model like that one day.

BTW, the scene is lit with 1 spot light (for shadows), and the rest is HDRI.

http://www.vi2.com/getFile/167641.jpg

http://www.vi2.com/getFile/167651.jpg

D_Nice

05-16-2003, 08:08 AM

The car looks really good (maybe a bit too shiney)
The windows could use alittle work on the glass shader.

Only one crit of the model itself (knowing full well that you didn't make it)... Where are the windshield wipers. I see so many car models without wipers on them. :D

JeffPatton

05-16-2003, 01:02 PM

Wipers...hmmmm...good point. I didnt even notice that. I will make some and a cowl to go on the car. Yes, I am still working on the glass. I cant seem to figure out how to make glass that does not distort. I'm also going to texture the interior.

Thanks for the comment.

FrageNSTEIN

05-16-2003, 01:22 PM

ahhh yeah... someone was asking me where the wipers were on my enzo, and then I was gonna go get some new refs and make some wipers... and alot of the enzo pics I found DID NOT even HAVE wipers.... weird.

Drew

Seo2

05-16-2003, 03:54 PM

hey the redering looks really nice... i was experimenting with HDRI, you think u could point me to some good info on the net on HDRI??

JeffPatton

05-16-2003, 04:58 PM

Sure, here are some links that I found helpful. Theres also one that seems to be dead (called Vienna at night), that has some wonderful free light probes.

http://www.debevec.org/
http://www.dbki.org/tutorials/eng/compositing/composit.htm
http://www.realtexture.com/hdri1.html

On the last one there, look at the bottom of the page for a bunch of hdri tutorials on different software (lightwave, Max + brazil, etc)

Hope that helps.

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