[reaver]

@rogerteddy are you serious about me sending you the lights? yours look fine to me.

Cheers.

Nick

[dutch_designer]

I dunno but as cool as the materials look, the model is not really convincing me that this could be the real car. You really need to tighten up those surface edges. They seem to bulge a bit (not flush with the surfaces themselves) and the radius on the edges seem too big.

[reaver]

Hmm you're right dutch_designer some of the shut lines do need tightening.....I could go on tweeking forever

Tim, here are my car paint settings. Pretty simple I think I adjusted the weight to 50/50 although I don't know if it made much difference



Cheers.

Nick.

[Tim Ellis]

Thankyou very much Nick.

EDIT-- Just seen the updates, looking good. Apart from the things you mentioned, I think the wheel rim material could be improved.

http://www.netcarshow.com/mercedes-benz ... per_13.htm

Many more reference photos here if you need them. http://www.netcarshow.com/mercedes-benz ... r_mclaren/


Tim.

[reaver]

No Problem Tim.

Yeah the rims look alot whiter in those shots although that could be the lighting. I'll play around with my lighting setup and see if that helps and play around with the shader if it doesn't


Ok folks here are some updates.


Still a WIP.
Things that still bug me:
Headlights shape need slight tweeking.
Tail lights look terrible
Need to model slr interior (stand in at present)
Tyres need bump map (can't get it to work)and more shine on facing surfaces
Bump maps and subtle details

Apart from that its perfect












I'm working on the interior and should have more updates in a couple of days

Any comments and crits are welcomed.

Cheers
Nick.

[Freeman]

i dont like some edges - they are not so hard as they have to - the light setup and the carpaint is realy nice

is ist possile to share your mxm?

[3dtrialpractice]

wow PHAT! original render was nice but new ones rock,
great model and shader, definatly cant wait to see the progress on the model but freakin great model so far!
be great to see it done and in outside environment.

keep workinit!
thanks for sharing your carpaint shader!
I had a question about why the bottom layer has a low roughness and why the top one has a higher roughness, but ill try to replicate variations on to see how thisworked out..

[Tim Ellis]

is ist possile to share your mxm?

Nick kindly posted a screenshot of his material settings further up this page.


Tim.

[jotero]

very nice material reaver

[Olivier Cugniet]

beautifull

[tom]

Very nice car!

[dd_]

stunning work mate, really nice material and lighting

[iker]

Great render, great setup, great car

[Peter Tomasovic]

good job, beautifull

critic : small detail

[reaver]

Thanks for your comments guys. They really keep me fired up to finish this beast.

Peter, thanks for pointing that out. I noticed it after the render, I did think about photoshoping it out but for critique I left it in. I've fixed that and adjusted the weight on the shut lines so they're looking tighter.
I should point out that this is only the second car I've built usually do characters, so I'm pretty chuffed with it

Btw if anyone else is thinking of modelling this car I found a great site yesterday with some nice QTVR exterior and interior shots.
Wish I had found it a week ago

Heres the url http://vrm.vrway.com/projects/THE_MERCE ... R_MCLAREN/

Stay tuned for more updates.

Cheers.

Nick