Thx for Sharing! You are right about giving credit to mental ray. im so used to working with gi renderers that i forgot how powerful the "old" engines are.
Jaw dropping stuff. Just learn so much from your video thank you for sharing. You should get that 3d printed in metal! and make small scale replica engines that actually work.
The thing that truly amazes me is that you rendered this with mental ray. I instantly thought it was rendered with GI based engines like maxwell or arnold,... Can you give some more information about your lighting/render methods? I rarely see such beautiful soft shadows and soft reflections as these. Carry on the good…
heh thanks. it's actually fashioned after my own engine, so it just has what i have. plus it's easier to go out to my car and take photos of things i can't find properly online. i won't add lines, i don't want them cluttering up my model, plus most of them end on parts that aren't there so that would look ugly. i did…