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explanation of what i did to your file to follow
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the reflection is there, but its super distorted
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go to render settings under "common"scrole to bottom turn off default light
then go to "mentalray" tab scrole down to "image based lighting" hit create button then in attrib editor you will be taken to "mentalrayIblShape1" load your hdri image then do quick render if to dark go back to "mentalrayIblShape1" look for "color gain" click the col swatch and type in the "V" something like 1.400 try a render that should brighten it up {tweek this as much as needed to get your brightness} tweek away all you like to improve the image in FG/aa quality anywere else ya like ..............oh i added a blinn to the floor turned up incandesance a little bit also again you tweek as ya like
if anybody got better way i'll be interested to know myself hehehehe
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anyone know how i can get the paint to appear more "white"
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don't ya just love rendering :headbang: ok what is your car paint shader setup?? i'll see if i can try and help you out with that take to mind though i'm no expert on this rendering lark by a long long way
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If you can post it as a Maya .ma file I'll have a look, as I use Maya 6
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ill have to take a look and see if i can get a version change
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