looks just like its been ripped of a real car! nice work

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-within temptation-

woot i got a portfolio!

looks pretty nice so far, are you modeling the detail or is it bump or displacement or some other form of candy

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No candy, it's pure... vegetable. Does that make sense to anyone? What I mean is it is all modelled, no bump or displacement.

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Thats pretty crazy man, how long does it take to render

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Well at the mo it's nearly 15 mins which isn't really too bad, but I imagine it'll be a lot longer when I do the wheel.

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dude! so much detail!

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Here's another update, this time with the completed wheel. I"m pretty happy with how it's turned out but as you can see, I can't quite get rid of the jagged edges on the highlights. The two left images were rendered in around 15 minutes each with default settings.
I've tried several different methods of anti-aliasing but none of them can get rid of it, even on excesively high settings. (see picture on right- took about 9 hours to render and is still unfinished and crappy)
I've cranked the subdivs on the reflections right up and that doesn't help either. PLEASE HELP! is there something really obvious I'm forgetting?

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now the image won't work. Bugger. Is there a size limit for the dimesions of an image, because the one that's not working is quite wide.

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I think it might be the space in the name

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I think it was the plus sign.

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Never mind, found the solution myself. Had to turn on sub pixel mapping and clamp the output. Makes it a bit let contrasty, but a lot smoother. Also renders fairly quickly as well.

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dude this is freaking awesome! Next featured artist me thinks? Stick it in your portfolio!

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Just have to add holes for the wheel nuts and a logo and then I'll whack it in my portfolio. Can you wait a few days?

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Yes I can! Just get as much work as you can in your portfolio and Ill check it in a few days.

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I work on it over the weekend a whack it up on Monday if that's ok.

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Yea man no problem. If you have any other work you may want to update your portfolio also.

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WTF!?! Dude, you're trying to palm this masterpiece off as your own work when the label on the side clearly states `Made in Japan'. What gives?

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...but seriously. That's F***ing great! Love it... One of your best yet. I'd go so far as to say it's `wheely wheely good'!

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... or did you think I was too stupid to know what a yoogoogoly was?

Thanks. I WHEELY appreciate your sentiments. I've worked quite hard on this one and it has been pretty TYREsome at times. I just hope the wheel will turn for me and I can get a job out of it. That would be MAGnificent.

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Jeez! You were just WAITING for me to say a pun so you could unleash with that uber-sigh-worthy barrage of pundom, weren't you? Top effort!

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Yep. The only reason I modelled the wheel was for the abundance of puns.

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So when will we see these wheelnuts and things?

Just don't work too hard... I would hate to see you suffering from BURNOUT. I don't want to go on a TYREade, but you should WHEELY try not to put too much PRESSURE on yourself otherwise you'll end up feeling FLAT and TYREd, losing your GRIP on reality.

I'd go on but I can't make a pun out of `steel-belt-radial', and any pun based on `20-inch' can only be crude... I'd probably couple it with something about `handling in the wet'.

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ok you win. I should be PUNished for even thinking I could go head to head with you in a Pun-off. I'll TREAD a bit more carefully from now on. BTW, the I've just uploaded the final image into the finished 3d area. Feel free to comment but try not to OVER INFLATE my ego.

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