light glass with blender

[willi_44]

Hi all,

Just, How do you do for a realistic headlight for car?

thanks

[willi_44]

Hi all,

Just, How do you do for a realistic headlight for car?

thanks

[multimediaman]

perhaps more people would be able to help you if you showed what kind of headlight you're trying to make...


Like, one of those "full" lights, like you'd see on lots of '80's vehicles, like an '87 thunderbird or '89 taurus?

one of those fogged up cheap plastic light "glass" that's all yellowed and doesn't offer good light throughput?

Or something covering the pieced-together lights like you'd see in many of the 'modded out' vehicles... see them quite frequently on '02 imprezas, or '00 celicas or something of that nature?

[willi_44]

it's for a ac cobra ,but i have just a problem to make the glass

thank

[tom120934]

Hi willi_44, I'm a Blender user so I can explain how I do my own headlights : for a basic setting, you can do the following :
- Model according to any "headlight tutorial" you can find on SMCars. Anyone is fine, even not for Blender !
- Important thing : think to give a realistic thickness to your glass parts (do it by making first a plane part, then extruding it)
- For your material setting, you can use the default "clear glass" preset in Blender.

Have fun and post here your homeworks !

[willi_44]

thanks a lot
I try it !!!

thanks again
will

[willi_44]

hi
that is my work in progress and if you want comment ...

[willi_44]

i have forgotten the side.

thanks

[tom120934]

Looks clean so far. Hard to tell if your headlights will look right with screenshots Keep going !

PS : You should open a thread in WorkInProgress forum to show your progress. And feel free to edit your posts to add a picture if you remember to add it shortly after your first post.

[willi_44]

Hi again,
So I haven't found a tuto to make headlight glass with blender.
And I have visit your website ,tom , it's very great.

thanks