Formula 1 Ferrari steering wheel.

Josamoto · Post by **Josamoto** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:03 pm

Hi all! I did this model a couple of months ago, actually it was part of a complete formula 1 car I did as my first ever Lightwave project. Decided to retexture as I learnt a few new techniques since last year.

Hope you all like!

Settings:
Photon mapping, Cache irradiance = on
150 000 lightmap photons (although I have no idea how much is enough!!!)
N = 1200 (Hope that's good enough)
FG Rays Max = 1200
Full screen grid AA, 3 with 32 undersample

Josamoto · Post by **Josamoto** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:54 pm

PS: Please drop a few suggestions on the texturing. I feel it can look even more photoreal, but I'm sort off out of ideas!!!

Janusz Biela · Post by **Janusz Biela** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:21 pm

Josamoto wrote:PS: Please drop a few suggestions on the texturing. I feel it can look even more photoreal, but I'm sort off out of ideas!!!

Mayby add computer and keyboard... Render with DoF.
Computer and keyboard on the desk.

Post by **jure** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:51 pm

I think you did a nice work. The rim looks very nice. I like how the specular highlight is broken.
Few suggestions:
- add an reflection map and make materials on knobs slightly reflective
- add maybe a bit irregularity on knobs to break specular there also.
- Add a bit more depth to "screens" by indenting them more in the body, add reflection and maybe something on the display...
- make background a bit more interesting.. maybe in darker tones also.

Josamoto · Post by **Josamoto** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:52 pm

Hi all!!!

Update with a bit of help from Jure! Thanks

Johhny: Unfortunately I'm too lazy to add a keyboard and computer to the scene. I want the scene to primarily focus on the steering wheel, without too many distractive objects around...but!!! I did decide to try a bit of DOF as per your excellent advice!

The image with DOF is currently rendering, but heres one I added a bit of reflection to the LCD displays to!

Thanks guys!

Josamoto · Post by **Josamoto** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 8:46 pm

Hi all!

Very mild DOF added, you might not see it, I can because I know its there...hee hee!!!

Reflections tuned and a few other material tweaks done on the model.

Thanks for watching...oh yeah...crits please!!!

Post by **jure** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 4:35 pm

Are you using specularity on your surfaces? If you are maybe better try without them and use blurred reflections. And fina a nice reflection map, a HDRI one or similar. I suggest checking out this tutorial: http://www.dbki.de/tutorials/eng/hdr_lighting/index.htm

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