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what??

Quote from kyler :

Ok here is my first mental ray render. There are a few problems the main one is the glass. 2nd one is the back ground and. 3rd one is the rims witch i plan on replacing.... =) what do i need to fix?

I have made a Max 7 scene that you can download and look at the materials of the car for glass or paint work. You can replace it with your own car and render.

For mental ray to render your scene nicely, you will have to have light source in the scene and enable 'Final Gather'.

see attachment 'draft FG render' for settings on draft work, the lower the 'Samples' are, the quicker it will render, but of course the quality is corse. Better to render drafts in 320 x 240 size.

Once you happy with your set up, see attachment 'quality FG render' for quality renders. the higher 'Samples' for the better quality, but will take very long to render.

see attachment 'environment background'. That is where you change your background colour or put an image.

here are 2 renders with reasonable quality FG setting

Thanks. You are the man and i love thos test renders. =) thanks

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=614772#post614772

These images are rendered with Mental Ray too.

i love them dude did u build that ur self?

Yes, the petrol station was a paid project for a client. Took 7 days (normal working hours) to model, textured, lighting set up, camera walkthrough and render the animation sequence.

Don't get luxuary of much time in reality. Pressure was quite high, so can't do everything in high details.

wow dude.

hey how do i get the windows transparent? im making my own scene?

this is a little better

Have you turn the glass material's tranparency setting right down? 100 is opaqe and 0 is transparent.

The image seems to be a bit washed out, what light did you use? may be the light is too intensed? try use only 1 Sky Light instead and try.

Here are some images I done b4 in Mental Ray with Glare effect long time ago. No Photoshop work needed.
The set up was 1 sky light for overall lighting, and 2 spot lights per each car's head lamp with little amount of volumetric light effects.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=143119#post143119

Quote from samyip :

Have you turn the glass material's tranparency setting right down? 100 is opaqe and 0 is transparent.

The image seems to be a bit washed out, what light did you use? may be the light is too intensed? try use only 1 Sky Light instead and try.

there isnt a skylight..... and ill try that when i get out of school in like 2 hours.