Car Paint Experiment by blbarrett
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Description
I've been trying to figure out how to setup a proper car paint material in poser. Here's the result...
1. Car Paint is both glossy and reflective.
2. Both qualities are dependent on lighting and environment reflection to appear correctly.
So, I created a simple environment, floor, base, pillars, and simulated overhead lighting.
I used one spot light directly above the scene and added 7 point lights turned way down (8 to 15 intensity) All the way around the environment.
The car paint material uses only a glossy modifier attached to the specular value and a raytrace modifier attached to the reflection color.
The glass and chrome also have a raytrace reflection modifier.
It's not perfect, but it's as close as I've ever seen in a poser render. Although there was a recent post of a mustang convertible that looked really good.
thanks for taking a look.

Comments (15)
Wonderful work on this
Superb! A most beautiful experiment and result! Bravo! Well done!
It Does Look Great!
That looks outstanding! The gloss and reflection are positively stunning! sigh Ah, that show-room gloss....is there anything like it? grin
Well done indeed! Nice work!
Very Beautiful Camaro RT. And It is very well succeeds. Cheer and mile mercies ((5++)) Une très Belle Camaro RT . Et c'est très bien réussit . Bravo et mile mercis ((5++))
Simply gorgeous, love the reflections on the car! Your simple environment brings to mind a show room where the car might be on display! Outstanding work!
Very cool looking car my friend, excellent work.
Nice work I hope i can take that information and apply it to Carrara Thanks once again for the help!
Xcellent render!
Wow! That actually looks really good. I didn't think it was possible. Well until I saw that mustang pic you mentioned. I saw that the other day as well. Kick ass job. I'll have to try that.
It looks stunning to me, very well done indeed my friend, it turned out perfectly. I love your explanation of how you came up with the excelent result. hugs Jane xx
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Yeah, your lighting does wonders for the paint job. Very cool render!
looking good real good.