A followup to the previous render I shared.
I reworked the textures a bit to make them more 'auto paint glossy', which ended up creating a 'jaggie' issue with my textures. The render below was after some trial and error with some shader and texture dial tweaks, and also dialing back the photoshop effects a bit (no thick black border, etc.). I'd normally use a paintbrush in post to 'correct' the jaggies on her calves, but I wanted to show the issue. The 'source' texture map doesn't have said jaggies (leg edges are smooth).
I don't see these sort of issues much at all - I can only think of one other time I saw something along these lines (the jaggie issue), but then that's the joy of working with Iray...
I should give a shout out to Lexbaird for his Hippie Van/Mystery Machine model, which you can download here:
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Obviously, I changed the textures a bit to fit my theme here... yay Photoshop!
The level of detail he put into this van is rather impressive, especially for a free model. Some of the paid vehicle models I've worked with have less detail than this one. Note the hinges, the lights... with a bit of creative texture work, yeah this van lends itself well to other uses. BTW, the six doors (driver, passenger, 2 side, 2 rear) all open and close...
I did have to rework a few of the 'baseline model' textures for Iray using Iray shaders of course, and am particularly proud of the look I achieved with the headlights. My point is that, with a few well placed Iray shaders, well you can really make this model shine.