Indigo Renderer Forum

Hello there! First time posting on this section of the forum!
For quite a long time I've been working on this concept car with Blender 2.49. It's probably also my first big project (first one where I actually went past the million-faces mark!).
Here it is:

Nice one!
Just a small suggestion to boost realism: the headlights shouldn't look pale white with a simple glow, as now. I think you should model them completely and attach your light source material to a modeled light bulb inside there.
Same with the lower lights.
Plus, two different light colors don't make much sense to me. I would try to give them both some kind of Xenon-appearence (blackbody, temperature 9000) or whatever.

thanks!

do you happen to have a good tutorial on making headlights? I've tried making one (headlights) before but I never really achieved a decent effect. As for the yellow lights, those are fog lights:
http://www.caradvice.com.au/wp-content/ ... 00x600.JPG

again, thanks for the critique!

simple tube with emitter and apperature diffraction on camera

hmmmm...that's actually what I've done. But the headlight glass is a diffuse transparent material. Is that probably where I've gone wrong?

use simple architectura glass, try to find this part of car and model it as it is in rela world.

alright, I'll try modelling a much more detailed lamp model.

How do I make architectural glass? as in what settings?

use presets from indigo

ah.

hahhaa, alright, I'll try and fix my car as soon as I can!

If your headlight glass mesh is single-sided, you might use the ghost glass material instead of ordinary glass. The "interior"-mesh around the emitting light bulb might get a simple chrome material, and with that you should recieve nice results.

I found out that it's better to use MLT instead of Path-Tracing with that, because it doesn't overexpose that much.