F1 gift: Car paint video tutorial

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I came up with this idea a few weeks ago, and since the F1 contest is coming up (though I won’t be entering), I thought I’d make this tutorial about making a car paint shader while there’s time for it to be useful. I’ve learnt a bit from the last glow tutorials I made, hopefully this is an improvement. Rather than just posting a blend file of the material, I thought it would be valuable to explain the theory behind it too. It partly uses the Minnaert shader currently available in tuhopuu3 - you can grab a copy from the testing build forums at blender.org, though you can also get a similar effect in 2.36 with a bit of extra work, using ramps.

Here’s a little preview image:
http://mke3.net/blender/video_tutorials/carpaint.jpg

and here’s the video (12MB MPEG4 file) and the .blend file.

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Nice tutorial, but we can’t use the tuhopuu builds for the challenge…
I guess we will have to abuse of ramps :slight_smile:
Subsidiary question, what is the name of the font that you are using ?

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nice tutorial broken, thanks for sharing

greets

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efbie: Oh really, that’s a shame. I was allowed to use tuhopuu when I entered a couple of years ago so I just assumed. It shouldn’t make a huge difference to the main premise though, anyway. The font I like to use for everything is Univers 59 Ultra Condensed.

Cheers, guys

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excellent.

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This is imho pretty much the best tutorial out there :smiley: Thanks. It’ll definately come in handy.

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Really? I don’t recall allowing that. Hmmm.

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ok, where exactly on that forum page is the tut? Could you post the exact link?

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The video link is at the bottom of Broken’s post. The forum link is if you want to get a tuhopuu build.

Martin

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oh ok. Sorry. Didn’t see that. Just saw the forum link.

Thanks Theeth.

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Bravo! Thanks for taking the time to do this.

A quick question… what method did you use to capture your on-screen video?
Thanks.

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broken, nice!! well thought out and executed tutorial. kudos.

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Thanks guys, hope it was useful!

CurtisS: I used Snapz Pro X for the video capture, and I did most of the editing in Quicktime Pro. (Copy / Add Scaled is surprisingly capable!)

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so cool and professional looking tutorial … NICE

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Broken said…(in part)

. . .and here’s the video (12MB MPEG4 file) and the .blend file.

I must have a hardware problem! Never have encountered this message:

Any help appreciated. I hate to miss out on cool stuff… :expressionless:

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yeah i’m in the same boat. :frowning:

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works fine for me - just tried downloading it again

could it be a different quicktime version causing some problems ?

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Bugger, that’s odd - it’s using the same settings/codecs as my glow tutorials (MPEG4 video/audio). I’d suggest try updating to the latest Quicktime, though vlc and mplayer should be able to play MPEG4 as well.

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you have my vote!

.b

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perhaps its coz i use quicktime alternative.

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