Has anyone successfully rendered a Car!!

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Hey,

Has anybody succesfully rendered a car in Vray for sketchup! It’s a nightmare!! The curved surfaces of all those quality models off 3d warehouse are completly ruined by the triangles that comprise the face!! the reflections become jagged, nothing like a car. HELP!!!

I have also had this problem with trying to render a reflective sphere!!!

Am I missing something crucial??

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I’ve used a low poly car a couple of times for some V-Ray experiments.

Not sure what you mean when you say that curved surfaces ruing the reflections. Is it that they don’t render smooth? Can you post a preview so we can see what’s going on?

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file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/emmetfox/Desktop/car%20render.png

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Guys those cars look really well!! I jus cant get mine to look like that!!

How do I embed an image so I can show you guys??

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how to put images

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Cool… Got it hosted, here it is!!

Any advice is welcome fellas??

If you notice the jagged nature of the reflection, thats what i’m trying to prevent!!

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Try to smooth the car first. select the body car and go to window\smooth edges.Also, check the link that I give you, and download my scene, and remove my TT’s, and put your car there. Don’t forget to remap the HDRI file. I’ll check this when I get home. Good Luck!

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You should check out the video tutorials that we posted a little while ago. There’s a material one that goes over how to make a good car paint.

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Will do stef!!

Here is another example of what i’m trying to prevent!!

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/8426/carrender2ii2.png

Does this occur because of the quality of the model, poly count too low maybe??

Cant wait to get over this hump.lol

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This is a bug, and a known issue. Simply explode and remake the group/component. That will restore the normal information, which is what’s lost.

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I see.lol All that frustration over a silly bug, I thought i was doing something wrong!

Will do!! thanks Dalomar!!

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Use plugin “Remove_CG_mat.rb”

Problem will disappear
before

after

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Here you go stef, made a bit of headway smoothing off those surfaces!

http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/9774/audittjpegmx5.jpg

Any C&C is welcome.

Cheers

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Good, now the geometry it’s ok. You have to play with materials now, if you have the last vray release, then you could find in materials some “car-paint”, also, try to improve all the materials, and why not, change the camera position( if I remember, on the opposite part of the car you will get much more nice reflection from the HDRI map).
By the way, my model wasn’t smood…when I try to render a close-up , I observed some bad surfaces…so don’t get to close :))