Oscar's rendering thread

[Oscar J]

Argh... okay, here's a studio with the emitting planes behind diffuse transmitters to make the reflections softer. Not quite satisfied with it, especially not with the side, but I think it's an improvement. You agree?

[Zom-B]

looks quite sexy, also interesting method with the emitter

[tar_gniK]

To be 100% honest, it looks like plastic, rather than metallic..

[Zom-B]

I would suggest you give the body another level of (Indigo) subdiv for rounder mesh around the lights.
Regarding that carpaint I would try that material: http://www.indigorenderer.com/materials/materials/1104

for the higher angle material its a good idea to have less saturation in color and a brighter material
(Raise the blend power in that material a little for stronger effect!)

[Oscar J]

I somewhat agree gniK, and I think that the "half sharp" reflections is causing it. Softing them even more would help one not to confuse the softer reflections from the lights with the harder one from the car itself (for example the mirrors). Im rerendering.

[Oscar J]

No... that didn't look nice. Poo.

Ill have to try that paint after all. Thx Zom-B.

[Polinalkrimizei]

Very cool studio set-up and background!!

Just a tad too much chromatic abberation for me, makes it a little "blurry"...

[Oscar J]

I would suggest you give the body another level of (Indigo) subdiv for rounder mesh around the lights.
Regarding that carpaint I would try that material: http://www.indigorenderer.com/materials/materials/1104

for the higher angle material its a good idea to have less saturation in color and a brighter material
(Raise the blend power in that material a little for stronger effect!)

That mat just gives me an error message "No such material defined: C2".

Grrrrrr

[CTZn]

If C2 is a material in your scene, rename it to Car Paint - Deep Blue including the white spaces and the hyphen.

If that doesn't work you may have to unzip the pigm and change Car Paint - Deep Blue from withing the resulting IGM to whatever name the material applied to the car has, then link/import against the modified IGM file.

[Oscar J]

Hmm... I'm not sure I understand what you mean. This is how it looks before the export.

And this is the error message I get.

Unzipping the pigm doesn't help.

[CTZn]

I see now, I didn't notice prior that there was a shader parameter called C2. The exporter is mistaking it for the material name it seems, and that's the material name the mesh is referencing. The packed material name is the one with an hyphen.

I'm not sure how the exporter is dealing with the material name, is the PIGM material name changed etc idk.

Try to remove the underscores from the file name, perhaps if it matches with the actual packed material name the exporter would not attempt for strange things...

Either what at this point the material name within the IGM file should be changed from Car Paint - Deep Blue to C2, because C2 is what the mesh is exposing, enforced by the exporter.

It's a bug I assume

[Oscar J]

Either what at this point the material name within the IGM file should be changed from Car Paint - Deep Blue to C2, because C2 is what the mesh is exposing, enforced by the exporter.

How do I do this?

[Polinalkrimizei]

Just open the mat with a text editor (any will do, but notepad++ is awesome and free), and be sure to save it as .igm again.

[CTZn]

earlier steps:

take the PIGM or a copy of it
crack it open with an unpacker (it's a zip archive)
operate as Poli said on the resulting IGM.

[Oscar J]

D'oh. Double post.