Lassiter/Cadillac V16 lightning/shading question

Tosyk

Hi, I did this car and tried to setup shading in marmoset but something is bothering me and I don't know what. I feel like I'm missing something in terms of lighting/shading to make these renders more realistic. Can I kindly ask you to suggest me a technique or any other advice to improve what I get atm? Or maybe everything is okay as it is now?

JamesBrisnehan

To me, it looks like the car paint is missing a clear coat. I think you can add one with Marmoset's 'secondary reflections' in the material settings. Secondary reflections or some refraction might help out the glass material as well.

Your reflections are very noisy/grainy. Try turning up your sampling number in your capture settings.

Many of your curved surfaces need more polygons, especially the steering wheel, headlights, mirrors, and wheel arches.

For more realistic lighting, turning on GI and AO can help if you haven't tried them yet. (Global Illumination and Ambient Occlusion)

I hope that helps a little 

sacboi

Agreed, even from a distance the low poly element, especially distinct exterior characteristics of the car are really apparent too the viewer. 

Tosyk

thanks for the advises guys! really appreciated!

as for lightning and ao, I already turn that to max settings. also I should mentioned that polygonage is supposed to be like this — interior is for first person and exterior is for third person.

about second reflection, is there's some tutorials that not supposed me to copy car body to shade it with another material like here(?):
https://hardcorelinxxx.tumblr.com/post/72029430399/carpaint-shader-recipe-for-marmoset-toolbag-2

JamesBrisnehan

I think either way would work. Out of curiosity, I just tried both methods for car paint in Marmoset, and they seem about the same to me. I didn't need to do any displacement though.

Tosyk

so I have another pass of the shading. what do you think guys?