Indigo Renderer Forum

But these concrete plates are modelled. I suppose the wheel's are too deep down in the ground.

Oscar J wrote:I suppose the wheel's are too deep down in the ground.

Probably not, I didn't expect that it was intentional though I understand why it would be. Well, we're left with a comment then: very nice old thing !

Ha, thank you! I like having the tires down in the ground, as it looks like the tires are flattened by the wight of the car. But I do see why you noticed it, because they are a bit too far down. Good eye!

You sir have a good eye and please others obviously, I am nitpicking too much

My Koenigsegg is almost finished - been working on this render since yesterday, I don't even know if it's good or not anymore.

Nice, but it's a little dull. You could juice it up top gear style!

Please tell me how you did it! I like it a lot. Curves?

Tjenare Oscar, bilen ser tjusig ut men håller med om att scenen känns lite tom.
Tar resten på engelska ifall någon annan undrar

Do you still use the 2 rendering and comp i PS to get the shadow ? I have been away from indigo for a while
so i just was wondering if there is any more refined method (shadow catcher) now supported in indigo?

Fix the white balance first. It's quite blue. Image > Auto Color works well as a start.
Then the curve in the attached image was used and some selective color to color the sky.
This should really be done on a raw hdr render and not an 8 bit image though.

Added a new image with better colors for reference.

Guessing you're using a backplate, so hdr tonemapping is out of the question.
Changing to 16-bit mode in photoshop before postpro might help some.

I get close, but not quite as good as yours. I think I'm going to let you have the last word on this one, and keep your version!

Thanks for helping - didn't know Auto Color worked that good, and the curve settings could work for many other renders too.

Here's a new one (new car, old scene).

Oscar J wrote:Here's a new one (new car, old scene).

That looks... PROPER.
There's some heavy banding on the sky though.

Thanks!

You're right, it was there in the original backplate. What's the best way to deal with it?

Also - the carbon mapping on the headlights are screwed up - will have to rerender...

Lasso select the sky as close to the trees as possible then use the smart blur filter.
After that hit ctrl+f about 48000 times.