realistic car

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i was once wondering how to make a very realistick
car whithout going into high poly
i’v already tried yafray

but i’d like it as real as this
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1202241
but a car instead.

could any one recomend a plugin that can do that
thanks

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Indigo renders nicely… You wanna try that…

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what does it look like

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Indigo is an external renderer that blender accesses via the Blendigo script. It’s very easy to achieve realistic results, though it’s infamous for it’s slow pace. Have a look at the tutorial below, and do a bit of experimentation. I recommend you start of will some simple models (I did a rubix cube) as the material system takes a bit to get used to.

http://www.indigorenderer.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_openwiki&Itemid=69&id=blendigo_new

That covers installation and rendering. Good Luck.

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i have indigo now
and as you said it’s very slow.
but i can’t find any good tutorials
iv tried
http://www.indigorenderer.com/blender_tut/#5c
but it does not tell me much

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Thats quite an old tutorial and I think it has been rendered obsolete by the one I posted…

When rendering things in Indigo you go through a few main steps.

  • Scene Creation; I think you’ve done that. Make sure its lit by a single sun lamp.
  • Materials Tweaking; Indigo has to convert your materials to its own format and doesn’t always do it the way you want. Reflections are the main thing I end up tweaking, as well as changing a few diffuse materials to phong.
  • Environment Setup; This includes altering the background in Blendigo to something suitable to your project. For realism go for the Physical Sky + Sun, but sometimes using a HDRi image is a better choice.
  • Render Setup; choose your image size etc. etc.
  • Hit the render button and hope for the best.

Thats not going into detail, just a very simple overview. Im still learning Indigo myself (see my S7 and Wyvern WIP’s for my efforts so far) so until I fully understand it myself I won’t try teaching it to avoid misleading you.

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here are some pic’s of some renders

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Looks good… and it’s good to see that you’ve started nice and simple before trying to render your car. Good Luck!

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yes but there is a problom with that.
it show’s normals on indigo.
and i know its ctr+n
but it moves somewere else
here is a picture i did over night.
sorry the picture failed to loade i’l try again later.

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If Normal Errors wont just disappear with Ctrl-N and simply move somewhere else, then there is still something causing the error. Probably interior faces.

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how would i fix that

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Going in and manually deleting them can be the long answer, but trying functions like ‘remove doubles’ and such can shortcut it. Of course, I haven’t done much indigo work, so thats a guess at your problem / solution.

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Find out how to network indigo, that should speed up rendertimes.

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Or just leave it going overnight. LOT simpler solution.

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hmm, just wanted to add my 2 cents…

Are You going for a realistic renderer (whatever that would mean) or how to make a realistic car ? Honestly, it’s not the renderer that matters, but how well You can model and how You use a renderer to Your advantage. I’d say BI is the most flexible nowadays for car rendering (thx to node materials, with which You can create very good car paint).

greets
-Kroni

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do you have a link to the website

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BI Stands for Blender Internal, the renderer that comes with blender. And although I agree with kroni about node materials making it easier, I still think Indigo is easier to set up for super realistic results.

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i know how to do materials but how do you get rid of normals

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where, i was wondering, is the car?

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Hey,

Your only solution as I see it… that if ctrl + n doesn’t work… Is that:

  • you go to edit mode of the car.
  • then under the edit buttons far on the right there is a button.
  • under the Mesh tools More.
  • it says draw Normals.
  • Select that.
  • As you see some blue (default) lines are now pointing out of you faces…
  • (Optional) increase NSize value if you cant see the lines.
  • now click ctrl + tab and select faces.
  • then select the face from which the line isn’t pointing out… instead there is only a blue dot.
  • select that face and under edit buttons under Mesh Tools click on Flip Normals.
  • when that is done for all the faces with wrongly turned normals the mesh should then be OK.

I hope you understand.

Best of luck!

Fort Ash