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CAR AND BIKE LOVERS THREAD - MARK IV

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  • Robert FreiseRobert Freise Posts: 4,444

    The Giant Gila Monster (1959)  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052846/

     

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,210

    That might be the one I saw.  Some of those movies were very similar.  I guess nothing changes.  frown 

    Dana

  • escrandallescrandall Posts: 487

    A question for the car experts here.  I'm looking to do a series of images from the 50s through early 60s using DS and am looking for garden variety American cars. There are some candidates over on Renderosity, although they are a bit spendy and it appears that there needs to be a lot of shader work to get decent Iray images. Are there preferences for any of the three "brands" - DreamlandModels, adh3 and Nationale7?  Should I be going somewhere else?  I just have DS .. I don't know about converting other models.  

    thanks for any comments

  • GLWoodardGLWoodard Posts: 3,335
    escrandall said:

    A question for the car experts here.  I'm looking to do a series of images from the 50s through early 60s using DS and am looking for garden variety American cars. There are some candidates over on Renderosity, although they are a bit spendy and it appears that there needs to be a lot of shader work to get decent Iray images. Are there preferences for any of the three "brands" - DreamlandModels, adh3 and Nationale7?  Should I be going somewhere else?  I just have DS .. I don't know about converting other models.  

    thanks for any comments

    Dreamland Models are decent meshes, yes, you will need to reshade them, a good set of shaders for Iray would be from Tom2099, they are avalable at both sharecg and Renderosity, and they are free, most of the colors are GM colors, but then again, so are most of the cars, adh3d is most cartoonish, so I would bother with them, Nationale7's cars are great, and I use them all the time, yes, they are a little expensive, but once you figure them out, are a joy to work with, mind you, when you load N7's cars, you cannot have anything else in the scene highlighted, the car has to load without anything so that it comes out right, otherwise, you will have problems loading it everytime, when you go into the surfaces tab, you will always need to do the various parts of the car, some of his older models require much of this, once you start using his cars, you will eventually figure out what I'm talking about here, but Nationale7 is one that personally prefer most of the time, especially when doing 50's and 60's scenes.

  • escrandallescrandall Posts: 487
    GLWoodard said:
    escrandall said:

    A question for the car experts here.  I'm looking to do a series of images from the 50s through early 60s using DS and am looking for garden variety American cars. There are some candidates over on Renderosity, although they are a bit spendy and it appears that there needs to be a lot of shader work to get decent Iray images. Are there preferences for any of the three "brands" - DreamlandModels, adh3 and Nationale7?  Should I be going somewhere else?  I just have DS .. I don't know about converting other models.  

    thanks for any comments

    Dreamland Models are decent meshes, yes, you will need to reshade them, a good set of shaders for Iray would be from Tom2099, they are avalable at both sharecg and Renderosity, and they are free, most of the colors are GM colors, but then again, so are most of the cars, adh3d is most cartoonish, so I would bother with them, Nationale7's cars are great, and I use them all the time, yes, they are a little expensive, but once you figure them out, are a joy to work with, mind you, when you load N7's cars, you cannot have anything else in the scene highlighted, the car has to load without anything so that it comes out right, otherwise, you will have problems loading it everytime, when you go into the surfaces tab, you will always need to do the various parts of the car, some of his older models require much of this, once you start using his cars, you will eventually figure out what I'm talking about here, but Nationale7 is one that personally prefer most of the time, especially when doing 50's and 60's scenes.

    Thanks!  This will be the first Renderosity purchase in years.  And thanks for noting Tom2099's shaders.  My collection is small and not exactly persiod.

  • GLWoodardGLWoodard Posts: 3,335
    escrandall said:
    GLWoodard said:
    escrandall said:

    A question for the car experts here.  I'm looking to do a series of images from the 50s through early 60s using DS and am looking for garden variety American cars. There are some candidates over on Renderosity, although they are a bit spendy and it appears that there needs to be a lot of shader work to get decent Iray images. Are there preferences for any of the three "brands" - DreamlandModels, adh3 and Nationale7?  Should I be going somewhere else?  I just have DS .. I don't know about converting other models.  

    thanks for any comments

    Dreamland Models are decent meshes, yes, you will need to reshade them, a good set of shaders for Iray would be from Tom2099, they are avalable at both sharecg and Renderosity, and they are free, most of the colors are GM colors, but then again, so are most of the cars, adh3d is most cartoonish, so I would bother with them, Nationale7's cars are great, and I use them all the time, yes, they are a little expensive, but once you figure them out, are a joy to work with, mind you, when you load N7's cars, you cannot have anything else in the scene highlighted, the car has to load without anything so that it comes out right, otherwise, you will have problems loading it everytime, when you go into the surfaces tab, you will always need to do the various parts of the car, some of his older models require much of this, once you start using his cars, you will eventually figure out what I'm talking about here, but Nationale7 is one that personally prefer most of the time, especially when doing 50's and 60's scenes.

    Thanks!  This will be the first Renderosity purchase in years.  And thanks for noting Tom2099's shaders.  My collection is small and not exactly persiod.

    Don't be afraid to use some of the many free cars out there also, of course you have to be careful on some sites, but there are some cool freebies out there, in fact, the shaders from tom2099 were created simply because of a free 53 Cadillac El Dorado convertible, I don't remember the link to that one, but it is in our archives somewhere in this thread or the previous car and bike lovers renders thread, this one is like the fourth verson of this thread.

     

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,057

    ...there are a number of good ones on ShareCG that are set up for Poser or are textured .objs.

    Those in formats like .3ds or .lwo will need converting in a modelling programme first.

  • GLWoodardGLWoodard Posts: 3,335
    edited September 2016

     

    One Clean Hotrod!

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  • GLWoodardGLWoodard Posts: 3,335
    edited September 2016

     

    Get Gas

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  • GLWoodardGLWoodard Posts: 3,335
    edited September 2016

     

    First Truck for Sweet Sixteen!

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  • Robert FreiseRobert Freise Posts: 4,444

    Nice work 

  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,668

    I sure hope I can post this here it is a steampunk Bike I thought was kinda cool!!laugh

  • GLWoodardGLWoodard Posts: 3,335

    Its still a bike!

     

  • MattymanxMattymanx Posts: 6,908
    edited September 2016

    Lambo Girls

    http://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/220966/

     

    Dumor3D's new penthouse suite level 1 has a really nice showroom setting.

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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited September 2016

    There's a really nice Merceds 300 SL that's recently been put up at Blendswap...

    http://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/86023

    This is a straight export (didn't bother doing 'parts') so the doors don't open or anything.  And I should probably break the headlight lenses off from the rest of the glass.

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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited September 2016

    Did another one...in the 'classic' Silver Grey.

     

    Also found out it's going to be a bit harder than I thought to do the doors...the creator included the 'plungers'...they will be pretty hard to rig properly.

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  • Robert FreiseRobert Freise Posts: 4,444

    Nice Mercedes

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    Robert Freise said:

    Nice Mercedes

    I'm doing another one now...I broke down and exported it without the door stays, so it's a lot easier to rig the doors.  Although I screwed up with the interior on this render.  Most of the silver ones had red interiors...so I'm going to change the color and re-render it.

     

     

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited September 2016

    Here's the 3rd and final one for tonight....

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  • GLWoodardGLWoodard Posts: 3,335

    Very nice Mercedes!

     

  • fastbike1fastbike1 Posts: 4,078
    edited September 2016

    Here's a contribution from me.

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  • GLWoodardGLWoodard Posts: 3,335
    edited September 2016

     

    My Hearts On Fire, for Elmira!

     

     

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  • escrandallescrandall Posts: 487

    I just picked up Nationale7's Scenicruiser on the other site... they have a 35% off coupon good through the 30th bringing it to a price I could live with.  It's sizing is a bit off, but easily corrected.  I'm still sorting out getting the right Iray shaders ..  the Tom2099 set goes a long way, but I'm still trying to find the right aluminum..    

    Recommended if you need a period bus

  • artd3Dartd3D Posts: 165

    Here is a 1955 300sl which I did a while back.

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  • artd3Dartd3D Posts: 165

    I called this Future Car Future Woman. This is a concept car which became the BMW I8. 

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,210

    Hey, GLWoodard, congratulations on winning the PC+ Inspirations contest and getting "Get Gas" in the newsletter the other day!

    Dana

  • Robert FreiseRobert Freise Posts: 4,444

    Ditto on the Congrats 

  • GLWoodardGLWoodard Posts: 3,335

    Thanks guys, wish the winning part would happen more often, but hey, I guess I ain't that great!!!!!LOL

     

  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025

    Here's one for y'all -

     

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  • MattymanxMattymanx Posts: 6,908

    Thats a cool looking car.  What kind is it.

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