Very realistic, especially the last two. But I suspect that the other 
ones are realistic too, sometimes it's just that reality doesn't look 
realistic ... :-)

Great job !

JC

Tek wrote:
> For anyone who hasn't been following the other thread: I can't illuminate my
> metallic paint using only radiosity, as it relies on specular highlights, which
> meant I couldn't light it using HDR...
> 
> ...but now I've found a way round it: Here the object is lit by a set of light
> sources distributed round a sphere, with their colours sampled from the HDR
> image. It's very effective and it means I can just change the HDR and it looks
> right. I've not used radiosity, but I guess to combine this with radiosity you'd
> need to turn off the HDR sky sphere and save the radiosity, then turn it back on
> for the final render, otherwise the light sources will combine with radiosity
> from the sky sphere and cause twice the illumination in the scene.
> 
> Anyway, the pictures show the paint in a variety of HDR environments, and the
> beach and campus pictures are using a much more metallic type of paint (90%
> metallic, compared to 60% in the other pictures).
> 
> The metallic paint is the same code used for the other picture, which is on
> p.b.s-f. I can provide the source code for the light dome trick if anyone wants
> it, but it's pretty straighforwards and my version is a little messy.
> 
> You like? :)
> 
> --
> Tek
> http://www.evilsuperbrain.com
> 
> 
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