Car paint has a fresnel reflective surface and high-gloss specularity.

Try a ray trace, or if you're using vray just turn reflection all the way up and turn fresnel reflections on.

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use shellac materials

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[Link to www.pixila.com]
[Link to www.sharecg.com]

Ive used the shallac method in the past. looks very nice. Heres a good tutorial page which should be easy enough to re-produce.

[Link to www.evermotion.org]

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Mental Ray's got a nice Car Paint material if you're using that.

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[Link to www.3dprevis.com]

Thanks for your answers

I do have Vray installed but if I try to render something it always tells me "could not obtain a licence"... But I gave it a valid licence... I dont know, what this thang wants from me, I tried deinstall and reinstall it... it simply doesn´t work.

So i´m stuck on Mental Ray, Steve Martin, if you could tell me, where I can find it??

@Tyson:

Thanks for the link, but my panel looks completly different.. May be because some of the Vray functions are unavailable to me... I don´t know

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If you've got Mental Ray selected as your renderer it's in your list of materials.

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[Link to www.3dprevis.com]

yeah, probably best to stick with mental ray.

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the key thing in good car material is not the material it self but the image it reflects and lighting setup.

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The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-Albert Einstein

I don´t have a car paint material there: [Link to s623.photobucket.com]
That´s all I got... may be I need a plug-in? :/ Oh man, is it so hard to create a good car paint shop...

@Altopais: I have no idea about lighting^^ I´m not this far yet

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Here's a nice tutorial for car paint using mental ray.
[Link to www.vexal.com]

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The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-Albert Einstein

you can download mine too
[Link to www.sharecg.com]

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[Link to www.pixila.com]
[Link to www.sharecg.com]

Thanks altopais, I worked through the tutorial and I´m very pleased with the results. You can watch them here:
[Link to s623.photobucket.com]
[Link to s623.photobucket.com]

Thanks for the help every one

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