Tyre help

[Catlin]

hey im trying to get a nice scene going on with my car but for the tyre mat im using it dosnt work well wirthm y brazil settings and i have to add lights to bring it up otherwise its just pitch black but if i add lights my car looks like crap its overbright

can you give me a help with the setup or a new rubber mat

these renders are with a brazil setup but with a light looks quite nice but i want thsi **** on my car

[polarexpress17]

when i used brazil, i used a standard material with a specular of 40 for my truck tires

[pasmater]

standard mat with multy layer shader is the key for good tire mat

[Catlin]

and how do yo do that lol

[Bjolletts]

As an easy fix you could make your light exclude everything in the scene except the tyres. Click the exclude button in the lights parameters rollout.

[nosalis]

well..and how about not doing the tyres really black .. in the real, they are not black at all so I would recommend to make it more bright, and then maybe add a little bit fall-off in the diffusion map slot

a lot of work can be as well achieved with bump maps and specular maps

but I think your problem is that you have it too much black.

here is the wheel I did for my Cadillac CTS-V

I also think, that if you`re not doing a big render of the wheel alone.. you don`t have to pay that much attention on the wheel