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Car Paint Material / Shader
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Car Paint Material / Shader // New Users
Post by Shadow106 // Apr 8, 2009, 2:36am
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Does anyone know any good settings for a realistic looking car paint setup? |
Post by Jack Edwards // Apr 8, 2009, 2:51am
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Depends on what render engine you are using. For YafaRay, try the Coated Glossy shader. ;) |
Post by Shadow106 // Apr 8, 2009, 2:53am
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Depends on what render engine you are using. For YafaRay, try the Coated Glossy shader. ;)
Currently I am using Lightworks that comes with version 7.6, I am gonna stick with that until I get used to the program which is slowly coming together now. |
Post by TomG // Apr 8, 2009, 4:16am
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There should be a car paint shader I think over on the Model (Legacy) side. Depends on what kind of paint, whether it features metal flake or not for instance. The Multilayer Paint is the one for Lightworks that is meant to give a metal flake like effect.
The main key to car paints would be to have some reflection, possible in many shaders without the need for a specialist one. Using a Fresnel effect shader would be best to capture how reflections change in strength depending on the angle of the surface to your line of sight - there isn't a native one for Lightworks, but you can find such shaders in the free ShaderLab, which is available for download (quick forum search should uncover its location).
For metallic paints, either use a metallic shader, or set your specular color to be similar / the same as your main color.
With materials, what works great in one scene, with one background, and one lighting set up, may not be so great in other set ups, so there isn't one perfect car paint material for example. Hopefully these tips will get you started! If you have images of a particular look you would like to achieve (either a photo or someone else's render), then we could offer advice on some specific set ups and materials to try.
HTH!
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Post by RAYMAN // Apr 8, 2009, 9:38am
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There is a good one in the download for symbiont and Symbiont is free and works with lightworks !
Heres a render example...
http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showpost.php?p=98457&postcount=17 |
Post by Weevil // Apr 8, 2009, 9:43am
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Strange...I have simbiont (though not lightworks) and I have no car paint shader
which is a real real big shame :( |
Post by mrbones // Apr 8, 2009, 9:54am
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Try Prodigys latex shader.
I also got Awesome results in the realtime. with a modified metal reflectance shader by dbokon.
Does anyone know any good settings for a realistic looking car paint setup?
http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/picture.php?albumid=28&pictureid=169
It looks great close up too!! |
Post by RAYMAN // Apr 8, 2009, 11:17am
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Strange...I have simbiont (though not lightworks) and I have no car paint shader
which is a real real big shame :(
Its in the ba shader folder and called MettalicPaintShader and the mettalic
component isnt very strong and is a very good car shader... |
Post by Shadow106 // Apr 8, 2009, 1:45pm
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There is a good one in the download for symbiont and Symbiont is free and works with lightworks !
Heres a render example...
http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showpost.php?p=98457&postcount=17
Thanks for that comment Rayman and to everyone else too I really appreciate it :) I downloaded Simbiont and tried out the car paint in there and it's perfect :D |
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