Billet

**Gary Komar** · 08-20-12

ZB real time lighting turntable unrendered AA half only !!

**EZRA52** · 08-20-12

Originally Posted by Gary Komar

this post attempt at achieving that high gloss candy apple custom paint look which is done in three steps(tricoat) - base - mid and clearcoat the final two being transparent a sample of the color and alpha for lightcap which also used for backdrop and last image single stage paint.

Gary, I'm not knowledgeable enough about rendering and lighting in general for 3D, much less these feature in Zbrush, to understand what the above coments refer to. If you get a little time to elaborate it would be much appreciated. For instance, the three steps, are you doing that in the materials pallet and creating a new material that you then use on the fender? Or are you doing that in the texture pallet? Then I would imagine there is some special lighting tricks that have to be done to make it all work. Any light you could shed on this (pun intended) would help me get a direction to head in to start playing around. You may be aware that I tend to play around with vehicles in Zbrush some. This painting aspect would be great to understand better.

Ezra

**bkcarlson1992** · 08-20-12

Wow, I wish I could get renders like that. i have not figured out Light caps yet.

**Jerick** · 08-20-12

Lightcap I've found isn't too tricky. The tricky part for me is not overdoing anything and getting a washed out look. With enough fine tuning, you can get some pretty snazzy results, but they aren't ever going to be immensely elaborate (I think).

**Gary Komar** · 08-20-12

thnx guys and ezra watch this - the master- studio lights http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthr...l=1#post900634 then download the image back
a couple pages i used for backdrop (warehouse with lights) and use
as alpha in the menues used in vid and as backround and mess with all those settings

pick a shiny dark mat and load ur model and play
learn that then on too trans

**EZRA52** · 08-21-12

Thanks Gary, I hadn't seen that before.

**Gary Komar** · 08-21-12

no prob EZRA52 lets see that cobra with a new paint job !!

**Gary Komar** · 08-22-12

a little carbon fiber and how to fun ! thnx for watchin !!

**andreseloy** · 08-23-12

im intrigued about the very sharp mask results(im not satisfied with mine!)
some advice apreciated
Thanks

**Gary Komar** · 08-26-12

thnx sure mario for you !sorry for slow reply ! i know your clever enough to figure this out - remember to hold the control key for mask options and replay last stroke - the higher the polys the better the mask

**Gary Komar** · 09-08-12

wheelZ - Pixologic has taken the effort out of HS modeling but not the fun !!

**Mahlikus The Black** · 09-08-12

What a great update!! ShadowBox Ninja!
You're doing awesome, awe-inspiring work here Gary!
Keep these golden nuggets coming. =)

Cheers,
~MAH~

**Gary Komar** · 09-09-12

thnx MTB !! this is not done with and i dont care for shadowbox or dynamesh ! i find you have more control with just the plane 3d and extracts give u select-able groups!

**sadicus** · 09-09-12

I really like the simple, yet powerful gif tutorials! nice work.

**Mahlikus The Black** · 09-09-12

So does shadowbox but one of the amazing beauties of Z is there are many ways to get to where you need to be.

*edit*

I have to say, after playing with both methods, extracting from a plane seems a lot cleaner. Thanks again Gary.

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