Brian, as always, that's an excellent model. Thanks for poinint it out to me. I always like seeing the progression of your models, though you know that at some point we as a community are going to coerce you into making a tutorial on the proper way to use SubD's.
Ok, at least I will. I just gots to know how you work your mojo.As for your "should I use photos as textures" issue, I say no. I think it would be different if it were the side of a barn, or a person's face for a game, or some other non-reflective object. But given that a truck/car will always have a reflective paint job (ever seen a non-reflective car? Me neither), having a static reflection on it would just look odd. Any scene you try to put it into would have to be built around making the the lighting work with the photo-reflections. I think it would be so much more realistic to make a shader that realistically provides reflections. Now, you know more about shaders than I do of course, but is it possible to make a shader that has at least two layers - one underneath that has the reflective "paint" on it so that it reflects your HDRI's, and one on top that is just the mud, perhaps with your bump maps to dirty it up? That way the mud doesn't cast reflections, but the underlying paint layer will. I don't know if you can do that, but that's what I personally would recommend.
Cheers.
You should check your email, you should have one there for you now. Well... for the third time this weekend I have gotten my truck muddy, but this time its alot muddier than b4. I was trying to figure out what to do for the windows... I went out and bought a few pieces of bright red Posterboard. I plan on taping these to the inside of the window, so that I can take a photo of the windows, and (hopefully, haven't done this B4) Edit it in Photoshop and take out all of the bright red, so that it is transparant.. Like glass, but the dirt will still be on the glass... Wonder if this would work... What do you think? well, Will be retaking all of my pics tomorrow, so I should be able to start textureing again. Talk to ya later,
so that I can do exactly just that. I understand about the reflections alot. I was talking about it a few post back.. But I think by making it muddy, and going to a location that dosen't ahve much around, then I can take the photos, with minimal reflection, and if it has reflection, I can edit it out... I know it sounds hard and it really really is, but i think the final result of a truly photorealistic model will be worth it.. Also , did you get my email asking for your mailing address??? I really ment what I said, I thought that it would truly be easier to mail it to you then mess with my computer trying to upload it. THanks alot for replying to my thread, Talk to you later,
But with as much knowledge as you have about texturing, I know that you could write a shader that would blow the pants off of any ol' jpg.
