How do I make a render like this?

[gcherici]

Hi all,
I've been using V-Ray for some time, but we usually render small objects.
This time I need to render a train and it shouldl look somewhat like the one I'm linking.
I think we'll have to use the Angular Blend to get that shiny/reflective white body color, but I'm really having a hard time getting it right.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Guido

[fpedrogo]

Hi
For the illumination you should use an HDRI. The material of the train body could be just a white diffuse color (230 or 240) with a reflection layer, with fresnel. I think you could use between 1.55 - 2 for the IOR value. The nice reflection on that image is produced by the HDRI. The effect of the motion blur, you can do it in photoshop.

Best

[gcherici]

First of all thank you for the advice.
I made a simple material following your indications, and that was the easy part. I've never used HDRI images so I tried downloading one from the internet.
What I found is a Jpg, not .hdr, is it the same or not?
And, should I put it in as a Background or as a Reflection map?

Thank you,
Guido

[fpedrogo]

First of all thank you for the advice.
I made a simple material following your indications, and that was the easy part. I've never used HDRI images so I tried downloading one from the internet.
What I found is a Jpg, not .hdr, is it the same or not?
And, should I put it in as a Background or as a Reflection map?

No. HDRI is a special image format that contain illumination. You can find some free HDRI here:
http://www.openfootage.net/?cat=15
http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html
http://www.aversis.be/hdri/hdri-free.htm

Here is a video showing you some tips to use HDRI
http://www.youtube.com/user/asgvis#p/u/23/k-68XtD6N78

Best

[3magic]

I did not use HDRI image but you can download HDRI image from the internet,I used only jpeg,png image and you can change background from it.