whell chair

[ignanacho]

I'VE been drawing this whell chair, and I can't make it look real. I don't know if the problems are lighting, textures or ....

Any tips will be apreciated.

Thanks

[Eric_Cartman]

It's lighting

Also add some dirt and scratches.

[Dedalo]

Looking good

[ignanacho]

Thanks.

Can you be a little more specific about what kind of lightinf i should be using.

I don't want to put scratchs because i want it to look brand new.

Thanks

[FrodoBaggins]

Looks good already, but maybe your tires could use some profile (is that the right word?) for grip.

[buddy]

tread^^

but anyway..... what you need is a skylight..... so if you know how to use the light tracer plugin that comes with max [if your using max5] then use that.... thats pretty much all its missing to me

[ignanacho]

i don't know how to use the skylight yet, but i'm goong to try it. It's frustrating all the changes that im doing and I still can't improve it

[RodrigoRosa]

the Brazil render can do the realism that you looking for... tho the lighting that came with 3dsmax could make it...

ah, the model is very cool....

cheers

[Eric_Cartman]

Use Scanline renderer with Light Tracer or get Brazil and use GI.

[ignanacho]

Ok, I'm going to try with brazil renderer.

I drew the model three years ago. It was my graduation project. I drew it in Mechanical desktop.

[ido]

brazil will help, but even if it's brand new it is never 100 % clean
try adding a specular level map to it, to simulate finger prints and/or some very small scraches

[ignanacho]

does it look better???

I changed the textures and the lighting, I think it looks better but not realistic as i want

[Eric_Cartman]

It looks like it's floating.

Download Brazil 2.0 its free. It's called Rio and it has all the features, the only limitation is the resolution which is limited to 5xx x 3xx.

Download: http://forums.splutterfish.com/viewt...=2396&start=30

[ignanacho]

You are right, it looks like it is floating . I rendered it using brazil.

[g69]

ignanacho:
hey man...the modeling is really cool

regrading ur renders:
have you given vRay a try?
to be honest...
it takes quite a while to understand some renderers

ive tried brazil - but was too complicated for me
and i really didnt knw how to use it
so i gave vRay a try - and was really impressed by the renderings!
fR is also wicked!

but i love & use vRay as much as possible.
you can check out the gallery here

regarding your lighting:
to make it more realistic you need GI or
need to fake it!

to fake it: you can try dome of lights...
there are plugins i guess (dont really know where you can find em though)

the score is... creating a huge dome of light, lowering their light intensities (.01 - .05: totally depending on ur scene)
and then creating a strong light.... which would give you some nice hard shadows.

i hope this helps you...
give it a try, and if you any quest. would love to help

Keep it up man!
and please show us some results too.