Lighting and Rendering

There are lots of different render engines that you can use and it can be difficult to make a selection. For this image I decided to use V-Ray as my vehicle was going to be placed in a studio. If it had been on land or anywhere near the sun, I would have chosen another render engine.

Let's have a look at the scene from the beginning (Fig.27).


According to my calculations, three lights were sufficient for this scene:

• First light: general illumination
• Second light: right headlight
• Third light: left headlight

Firstly, I placed one V-Ray light and set the parameters as follows:

• Multiplier: 3.0


• Color of light:
• Red: 168
• Green : 176
• Blue : 181


• Hue: 144
• Sat: 18
• Value: 181

If you enter these parameters, you can obtain a dim night light (Fig.28 – 29).




I set the position of the light; I will not give the exact right/left parameters as they are affected by the location of your object. However, it may be useful for you if I give the parameters of how far the light is from the grid, which is Z: 216,724 (Fig.30).


Now it was time for omni lights to simulate that the vehicle's headlights were switched on. Even if I used a V-Raylight material, it was not effective as they are inside, so I placed auxiliary omni lights in front of the headlights (Fig.31).