Hello all, First up I just wanna say, Its great to be back!

Ill also want to say, I kind of made a mess of the last post I made of this
topic...So I'll start again...Sorry all...I cant delete it either!

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Previous thread can be viewed here

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Now for my question! Ok, anyone here played the game

"Need for speed underground 2"? Anyone love that beautiful Pearlescent
paint you can paint your cars!?

Anyways, what I am wanting to know is, if there is a way that
can I recreate this Pearlescent effect in P5?

Thankyou to all in advance!

Ascinct

P.S I ve added some images with the type of effect I am after!!!

Attached Link: http://market.renderosity.com/softgood.ez?ViewSoftgood=28168

Note; contrary to Stewer's method, I din't use a sphere map in my reflection node as I wanted my car to reflect the scene itself instead of an arbitrary environment (Poser purism? There are actually NO textures in these pics, only materials :-). Thus these images do not reflect (no pun intended ;-) the true extent/ beauty (?) of the paint.

Oh WOW! Thankyou so ver very much! Sorry, it took awhile for me to come back to my own thread..(medical reasons) hangs head in shame I am gonna give this this a go now!! - Ill post my test renders! Thankyou so ver much again!

No shame in not feelin' well. Get better soon, so ya can tell me this wasn' what ya was lookin' fer ;-) LOL

Ok here is my first try, I used P5's default lights...Not to flashy at the moment,
but the effect is present!

Alright, Its working! A very quick render (though it takes 3 mins....)

Ive gone and added a floor (even though the car is floating on it) and I have
missed some car panels...

Thankyou so much for this and for the awesome link!!! And to think I was going to buy a model car for this! LOL Now I know how this sort of thing is done, there is definitely room for experimentation!!

Velly good, Glasshoppa 8-) Yup, experimentin' is what is all about...thas how I stumbled on it (i.e; don' thank me, thank Stewer....I thank ya too, Stewer, wherever ya are ;-)

Ok, I've fixed a few things, plus added a similar effect to the glass

Oh I forgot to mention in my last post that I am using 2 lights:

1. Infinite white

2. Spot Green

Below, Ive modified the material abit.

Ive added a spectacular colour to the car paint value. The settings used are displayed below.

Ive done this so that the car reflects the colour of the surounding lights too!!

Bravo!!!

(applause noise here)

Good call on the glass; mine was the exact same mess as my "base" paintjob w/ the transparecy kicked down...or up...or whatever ;-)

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Thanks so much for making this

Its all good man!!! We were just experimenting!!! Hope it helps you!!

Here is another interesting one.

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The link listed above no longer works... Shame. I was interested to see what they were, based on this thread. I guess I'll just have to work up some on my own.

Quote - The link listed above no longer works... Shame. I was interested to see what they were, based on this thread. I guess I'll just have to work up some on my own.

Try these :)

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/index.php?user_id=305980

Attached Link: Magic Mirror

 http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1694547

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1709067

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1715287

This are three pics from my gallery (there are much more cars and bikes) using different shaders based on bagginsbill and stewer (thanx, and humble myself). An absolute must is an environment sphere (or in a white background a white egg above the car) to give you the reflections.

But with many  cars you run into the "fly shit" problem where FireFly forgets to render polygons and single one polygon black spots appear. The usual remedies suggested here don't help in this case. They don‘t appear when you render the car in Cinema or 3ds max.

The other thing is that lighting conditions are crucial - one main sun light and an IBL is what I usually use.  The first step then is to make an empty scene, light it, and use bagginsbills IBL out  generator to create the pict for the IBL.

The colors in baggins shader or much more difficult to adjust than in the stewer shader - anyway its a lot of rendering trying to figure the color and shades.

But if you are interested in some shaders - or colors - send me an IM