Steampunk Hot Rod

[Guest]

Hi guys!
It is my second personal project with vray/blender
actually, this is the model i created about a year ago based on the image that i found on the internet
but i tweaked it a bit and decided to render it now in vray/blender

anyway, i have collected some textures and references
i wanted to make it painted with black and red paint with scratches and rusty looks..
but, it's very hard for me to create a nice rusty and scratches shading and texturing in vray/blender like Kjartan Tysdal does in his Tauren Marine

please help me guys, how to create that?
and some tips would be great!

or maybe you guys have any idea how to texturing this guy?

as always, comments, crits and suggestions are welcomed
thanks

[bdancer]

Re: Steampunk Hot Rod

You could use this approach for scratches viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1272

[themacguy]

That’s a GREAT looking model…. could be made “cartoony” or (with enough “grunge” applied, and gloomy lighting in the scene) look very threatening…. have a LOW camera shooting “upwards”—as it it’s about to be run over by the beast…

Meanwhile, to you and EVERYBODY on this forum (Blender with VRAY-StandAlone)…
—can we possibly set up a “shared textures” website, similar in intent to the http://www.vray-materials.de/ website.

Facing the (current) near total lack of documentation and EXAMPLES,and TUTORIALS for Blender/VRAY, on how to get the ball rolling, I’ve been exploring it using tedious “trial and error” trials that go on forever, what with all the PERMUTATIONS of “what button to push next”….when, to be honest, I barely have a CLUE what to do next… ;oP

Well, I think some sample shaders in “Blender format” will go a long way to getting ALL of us fellow “Blenderheads” going forth with VRAY—with SOME small notion of what button to push!

Thanks for listening! I hope we can build this forum-community into a significant “force for good”…
—[[bring your Captain Marvel Secret Decoder Ring, AND your Super-hero costume, with you to the next IRL meeting!! LOL! ;o]]