My CAr

[si_kick]

im 13 and ive just really got into lightwave and am doing alright but am having trouble making the car ive done look realistic when rendered, ive just made a quik background nothing special, plz help

[Rei]

Good first model.

First you need to enable Anti-Aliasing. Select the Camera then bring up its properties 'p'. Near the bottom is a menu called Anti-Aliasing. Set this to 'low' for starters.

Then you need to set the surfaces to reflect propperly. Go to the surface pannel (top right) and select the main surface. Go to the 'Enviroment' tab and set the reflections to 'Ray traced'

Finally go to 'render options' and make sure that raytraced reflections are on.

Re render your scene, and it should look much better.

For great tutorials on cars, go to Lewis website (which i have know idea where, sorry Lewis).

Hope this helps.

Rei

[vipergtsdrivr]

put it against a brick wall or something....

[Rei]

Come on, why be so harsh, its the guys first attempt. I wouldnt have been able to do that first time round.

No flaming!

[Hiraghm]

I think it looks great.

I don't think anyone was flaming, Rei. I think he was making a suggestion for the backdrop...

[si_kick]

hey thanks for standing up for me but i dont think he meant ne harm, but for the record take into consideration that im 13, havent had this programme for long and had to teach my self with no help, and yeah i am gonna do it against a wall or sumthing

[Zarathustra]

Wow. Great start. Good for you trying to teach yourself. There are a lot of tutorials and helpful users online if you get stuck. We'll wait for the next render and try and help you out.

Did you build the car?

[Matt]

what isn't helping also is the fact that you've 'blown up' your image.

the giveaway is the furring of the pixels around the edges.

as a general rule it's not a good idea to enlarge bitmap images beyond their original sizes.

your image will appear much sharper left at it's original size.