CAR RENDERING | Part 1: HDRI Essentials

[@JonasNoell]

FULL 4h+ COURSE AVAILABLE ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/JonasNoell

[@farhanakhtar2390]

Hello Jonas, will I get access to this course full videos by joining your base membership which is 3€/4$. (Just videos not project file)

[@JonasNoell]

@@farhanakhtar2390 Hi, no for this you would need to choose the medium membership.

[@farhanakhtar2390]

@@JonasNoell Okay 👍🏽

[@ferdinnd]

Hello, Jonas. I'm interested into the complete course. Should I subscribe as Student or Padavan? I looked for the videos, but I can't seem to find them. I have never used Patreon before. Thank you very much for your content, it's excellent!

[@JonasNoell]

@@ferdinnd Hi, you can subscribe as Student to have access to everything at the moment. Once you are on Patreon you can also send me a message over there if you can't find what you are looking for.

[@petarpopovic1854]

Great job Jonas! Keep up the great work, this could easily be a payed course but you're the man for giving out this for free!

[@Soluchi-InfiniteCoCreatorGod]

Wow. Great tutorial. Thank you so much. Subscribed. 😊👍🏽

[@PrivacyEnt]

I know its a hdri tuto, but man those headlights look gorgeous. I am so happy to see real headlights in renders instead of emissive "led" rectangles behind smooth glass:D

[@JonasNoell]

Part 1 is only about HDRI’s but in one of the next parts we will be discussing the headlights so stay tuned for that :-)

[@mrgrotey]

This is great! Where is part 2 please? I'm struggling to find it.

[@JonasNoell]

The whole course is only on Patreon for now

[@jimmwagner]

This is great. The next parts can't come soon enough. Thanks!

[@JonasNoell]

Working on them already :-)

[@elessar0009]

Thank you very much, your video tuts are really great, brief, to the point and well explained. wondeful work. thanx

[@vitaliiandronov8629]

Hey! Great video? But what about 2nd part? Haven't found it

[@JonasNoell]

You can find the whole course in my Patreon

[@pooryahagigat]

You are amazing just make part twoooooo

[@JonasNoell]

Actually part 2 is already out long time and many more parts of this course you can find on my Patreon :)

[@briceantoine4154]

REALLY AMAZING, thanks a lot sir, you really help us who can't afford expensive tuition fees..Much Bless!

[@RobertoGarcia-rp7wu]

how did you applied the textures to a obj ?

[@JonasNoell]

What do you mean?

[@крикет-ц6щ]

im sorry what im going to ask may look silly but im new to this program how can you render without setting camera? i mean when you move the view on 4:16? i can get the render only when setting the camera otherwise the entire screen is either black or white

[@JonasNoell]

Do you get a correct alpha channel? If yes then the exposure is most likely set wrong. Then you need to add a physical exposure correct in your environment (press the 8 key) and put in a correct exposure value for example an EV of +9.

[@крикет-ц6щ]

@@JonasNoell oh thank you so much!!! you helped a lot!

[@pixelquarry]

Oh boy, I can't wait for the next parts! Are you going to show how to render that little animation sequence from the teaser?

[@JonasNoell]

I mean that’s just adding a camera to the finished scene and press the render button or what do you mean exactly? :-)

[@pixelquarry]

@@JonasNoell I’m just wondering about your workflow. The teaser is super clean and I’m not 100% sure how you did it. I don’t render many animations so some insights would be great.

[@pixelquarry]

I just realized that you will probably explain your render setup for the stills and then it’s „just adding a camera…“ Ok, now I feel dumb…

[@JonasNoell]

Hehe no problem, yes the animation is basically just after finishing the shading for the whole scene to place some cameras and render it our. I didn’t do some shot-specific lighting in this case, it’s all just one lighting/shading setup.

[@rizkipradipta241]

Great video, part 2 not out yet? or only on patreon?

[@JonasNoell]

Hi, part 2 - 5 can be found on my Patreon only so far

[@The72235]

newbie here. how did you make the hidden plane? @ 3:43

[@JonasNoell]

I don't see any hidden plane there, that's just the spherical HDRI?

[@The72235]

@@JonasNoell its all good now. i was referring about the shadow/matte plane

[@prathiushprathap6441]

Is the part 2 of this video out?

[@JonasNoell]

The whole course is on my Patreon

[@littlecurrybread]

wonderful tutorial ty

[@lolmao500]

Looks realy great

[@charlesleclerc_ferrari]

But why don't you just use the inverse gamma in the VRayBitmap? It does the same thing as you just did in Photoshop, but it doesn't actually "bake in" the gamma value, so you can change it inside Max.

[@JonasNoell]

Hi, are you referring to the part when the sun was painted in? When you adjust the gamma of the hdri you would be changing the brightness relationships between all pixels. Basically you are just increasing the contrast between the values overall which is not the same as to locally paint in a super bright sun for the main light and leaving all the other pixels untouched. In my opinion HDRI should never be gamma adjusted and if you have the feeling that you need to then there is most likely something wrong with the quality of the hdri itself.

[@charlesleclerc_ferrari]

​@@JonasNoell I'm not sure if technically it's the same thing, but to me it seems it has the same effect. Decreasing the inverse gamma makes the bright parts brighter, the dark parts darker, and it also makes the shadows sharper. Increasing does the opposite so you can use the same HDRI image and change the scene from overcast to sunny and vice versa. But again: I'm not a professional just a hobbyist, so maybe this is not the best practice in the world, but it works for me just fine.

[@JonasNoell]

@@charlesleclerc_ferrari Hi, well it depends on what your goals are: From a technical view the HDRI should be an accurate representation of the lighting conditions on the scene and should not be altered if shot correctly. If you play with the gamma you are increasing or reducing the contrast over all pixels, thus altering or falsifying the captured data. For example you will increase the contrast which will make your lights and shadow stronger but at the same time you are also oversaturating all your colors including your sky. You will get a result for sure but it won't be any accurate representation of the lighting conditions from the actual scene. If, however, you are satisfied with the result there is no rule that prevents you from using this workflow. As long as you know the advantages and disadvantages everything is allowed! :-) If you look at it from a pure technical view however it would be a malpractice. That's why in the workflow I presented I only fixed the actual issue which are the clamped hightlights, while leaving the rest untouched. Nonetheless as I also said in the video I would anyway only use accuarate and technical flawless HDRI's, this way you wouldn't need to do any of this stuff anyway!

[@user-gu3qg3yi2b]

thank you!

[@DubeThabo]

where's part 2?

[@JonasNoell]

The whole course is available on Patreon

[@chrisg6364]

did you texture the car by yourself?

[@JonasNoell]

Since this is a whole course from start to finish about how to render this car from scratch probably yes 🙂

[@jisbinbabu7478]

How you placed the car in hdri .

[@JonasNoell]

You can check out my Car Rendering Course on Patreon

[@vigneshwaranart6301]

how did you project that hdri in to sphere?

[@JonasNoell]

Just simple spherical mapping

[@mendostudio63]

Please the next part 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[@JonasNoell]

You can find additional parts on my Patreon already or wait for the whole course to be released :)

[@DaT_Animations]

How did you get the dome hdri with vray?

[@JonasNoell]

You can use a domelight with an VRayBitmap set to spherical mapping

[@DaT_Animations]

@@JonasNoell yes but I mean with the floor, if you just use spherical mapping it looks like the cars floating in space

[@JonasNoell]

​@@DaT_Animations You can use the Groundprojection in the VRayBitmap. I wouldn't recommend this workflow though as I think it's not well done in V-Ray currently. I normally build my custom projection/lighting setup which I describe in the full course and handles this issue much better if you ask me.

[@victorchang7213]

Hi Sir, I have one HDRI problem, which is whenever I upload HDRI into my VrayBitmap, the preview of HDRI shown in Material Editor is way too over exposed. Even tho I have already set the "Color Space Transfer Function" into "Inverse Gamma" with a value of 1.0, RGB Primaries under the "RGB Color Space" have set to "sRGB Primaries" as well. Is there any solution to solve this kind of problem? (The HDRI I had uploaded into VrayBitmap were all downloaded from HDRI Haven.) Ps: I have tried to lower down the Overall multi value way down to 0.01 in order to solve this over exposed problem. With the default value of 1, the preview of HDRI shown in Material Editor is still way too over exposed.

[@JonasNoell]

Ok, that is strange as so far all the HDRI from HDRIHaven that I tested worked fine in that regard. Can you try to use the same HDRI that I was using in the tutorial (Piazza San Marco) and see if you still get a weird result? If yes then there must be something wrong with your settings. Note that there are 2 settings: Overall and Render Multi. Both of them should be at 1. The Multiplier of the V-Ray Domelight should also be at 1.

[@victorchang7213]

@@JonasNoell Yes sir, I uploaded the "Plaza San Marco" HDRI into the VRayBitmap, the preview of HDRI shown in Material Editor is seems ok though. But when I tried to upload other HDRI, such as "Pond Bridge Night" from HDRI Haven (Poly Haven). Its preview was overexposed again, especially the sky. Originally, the color is in Deep Blue color, but it shown up as daytime light blue color at the material editor preview. The whole scene seems to be in daytime mode, which it should not be, because it is a night time HDRI. This problem only seems to be happened at the preview of the Material Editor. *The Overall and Render Multi. are remained default, at the values of 1 respectively. The Multiplier of the V-Ray Domelight also be at 1. When I try to render a view with this "Pond Bridge Night" HDRi with every value remained default (All values are set at 1 respectively). The background is shown normal, no color/ gamma error, everything shown up as the default preview of HDRI.

[@sagarkahile1931]

thanks part 2?

[@JonasNoell]

Hi, Part 2 - 5 and later parts at the moment only on my Patreon

[@rennycepeda6576]

what year of 3ds max are you using

[@JonasNoell]

Currently 2021 but I think it doesn't matter which version you are using.

[@rennycepeda6576]

@@JonasNoell thanks i plan to use that one to learn

[@tplee8773]

Awesome! Is the next part video paid?

[@JonasNoell]

Some bonus videos will be on Patreon only but the main course will be free. Working on the next part now :)

[@tplee8773]

@@JonasNoell Wow, thank you very much. Wait for your video

[@ravijoshi23]

Part 2?

[@JonasNoell]

Hi, Part 2 - 5 and later parts at the moment only on my Patreon

[@maxxuniversal]

Great but you didn’t how you projected your Hdri, you only explained

[@JonasNoell]

It’s explained in the course

[@maxxuniversal]

@@JonasNoell yea but I thought you said something bout a step by step

[@maxxuniversal]

@@JonasNoell a full step by step on that on the course could have been better

[@saifaliksa8085]

Mannn..thanks a lot

[@pooryahagigat]

Where is part 22222222 ?????

[@JonasNoell]

Actually part 2 is already out long time and many more parts of this course you can find on my Patreon :)

[@fairlamjon]

Thank you. Please don't talk so quickly. It makes it very difficult to follow.

[@JonasNoell]

Thanks for the feedback, I will keep that in mind for the future.

[@dasnico13]

part 2?

[@JonasNoell]

Other parts only on Patreon so far

[@mikaelren8968]

@@JonasNoell But I still can't find anything to write about on Patreon

[@JonasNoell]

@@mikaelren8968 Not really sure what you mean?