tez12 opened this issue on Jan 20, 2007 · 43 posts
templargfx posted Mon, 22 January 2007 at 11:46 PM
yes, actually I did want poor quality in the middle, this was after much staring at my car.
as you likely know, the paint on a car is far from flat and smooth, when looking at it on angles, the reflections are alot clearer because you cant see the reflections on the "indented" areas, but when your looking at the paint straight on, the reflections arent as crisp as the surface isnt flat. I tried to simulate this with both bump mapping and displacement mapping, unfortunately both methods did not give the desired results, and both dramatically increased render times (displacement especially). So I thought I'd go with the edge blend node in the quality setting. seemed to work!
As to the rubber I created, its ok, but looks nothing like a real car tyre, over all I was far from happy with it. I should really try again now that I am alot better in the node room. shading a tyre is alot harder than you first think LOL
TemplarGFX
3D Hobbyist since 1996
I use poser native units