Quote - it looks REALLY good there, what color did you use for the material behind the glass?

I didn't really use any color behind it.  I'm guessing that maybe its the material of the headlight casing?  Which in that case it would be your old chrome material.  I guess I could try rendering with the headlights completely transparent to see what's behind.  I'll do that when my current render is finished.  I do know the lights took a long time to render, but the results were definitely worth the wait.

I do mean the metal part - thanks, I'll give that a try.

Those shaders look awesome!  Maybe I'll be able to do renders without having to avoid closeups of the front or back of the car.

I'm looking forward to your new materials.  I definitely wouldn't say your old ones were crap at all - in my render it was more a combination of the model and my poor rendering & lighting skills.  The new leather looks great, though it looks like it could be used for cloth seats as well.  Is it supposed to be more of a suede leather?

I actually used TGX's older leather set for the seats and the top, but I agree that they seem wrong.  And you're right about the light.  I had the "sun" light more in line with where the sunset appears but it cast the left side of the car and the tires too dark so I moved it - obviously the wrong thing to do.

And I am using Pro 2010 with IDL enabled and render GC set to 2.20.

I read, but in my haste to try it out, just didn't go down far enough - my apologies.  The explanation is more than adequate, and the shader mods work great.  It is greatly appreciated.

That's great, thanks!  I'm just checking it out now.  I'm assuming I should be setting the PM:EnvMap Value to 1 to enable the environment map reflections, correct?

Quote - I found some time to finish my newest car paint shader. You can get it here:

http://sites.google.com/site/bagginsbill/free-stuff/car-paint

BB, awesome shader, but I have a question.  Where would I plug in a reflection map?  I usually would use your environment sphere, but there a times when I want to render over a background image and use an hdri map for reflections only, but I'm not sure where to put it in the shader.

I think there must be, I can't access it either