cool

good stuff!

Theres some good models on that site..having a few issues though with the cars with decals like the dodge charger police vehicle, get it into carrara and its just black?

heres a snap of progress so far....

excellent, sure wish i had the know how, imagination and motivation to complete such a brilliant piece of work.

kudos..excellent video look forward to its completion

The final image will use hdri but for rendering tests ive turned of the global, but Jones was right about the ambient setting and I will need to sort the shaders on the carrara native vehicles, ill try those lighting settings too, the hdri image is a full moonish night...

Good call Jones!!, Never looked at that option, turned it down a tad and your right.
Thats what I like about this place, so many people willing to help and share the benefit of their experience.
Once I,ve completed this image I will post a copy here, thanks guys

Attached Link: http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/kunshouling/lights.jpg

Shonner: I know your pretty good with Carrara, however let me highlight the problem, which is with me and not the software: This project is to be an experiment with all sorts of lighting in one scene, heres a new render where I have progressed a little. (notice the building in the background where my experiment of lighting the windows has begun, quite pleased with that!) I have used a different model of a car and placed it half in the light and half out of the light and this is giving me the desired effect, the car is lit correctly. My problem is in the final scene I will use different cars (dont want clones!), which will have to be carrara native cars as I do not posses others, but in the first image it looks the same in or out of the light. Now I know its not a lighting problem but a shading issue that I still cant figure...

thanks for the advice, I will look at these options too, you maybe right about te colour, but surely even black would be illuminated if half in light and half out?.
I have figured out its definately the car not the lights that is the problem now....

I used another car object (ADR Speedworks) with satisfactory results, so it maybe its something to do with the shader, the bit I cannot understand is there should still be a difference between the light area and dark area.
It seems this is only happening when I use Carrara native objects?
The ligt is definately in the SM area as the tarmac is lit in the right place.

I have "All Objects Except" selected, with no exceptions

bingo!, thanks mark although i would of thought my ogl should of been fine having two cards installed!

I have one thing that niggles me about carrara, every time I open a new scene the screen is black until I click on it.
I set the scene up, but find  using the manipulator also doesnot change when I select from the sidebar (IE if I had movement manip the change to resize, this does not come into effct until I click in the work area which can be annoying sometimes)
I then do a render and when I return to the assembly room the screen is once more black and I have to click in the screen again.
I just want to know if its me or if this happens to others and it is normal?

Er, call me stupid, but where do I locate the daztmp files?