No sun

[yossam]

There is no sun lighting this scene, there is an .exr on a background node mapped spherically providing the illumination. The car paint and chrome shaders are provided by Hannes. Grass is from Ulco...............all I did was put it all together. 

[DocCharly65]

Nice! Like the lawn next to OCC's office 

Perhaps a little bit more contrast?

[luvsmuzik]

All right. Now I see....a great red mustang very shiny with a clear and almost clear milky white reflective surface. (I see the cycle and grass, etc. too) Is my unit picking up all the color? I understand what you are saying you did here with the background EXR, but do not know if my puter reads it as it is supposed to.
I have lots of huge HD sky jpg from scenic real life, can that be used as a spherical background map as well?
Are you using global illumination also?
In any case, great!

[Hannes]

Hmmmm, no sun indeed, but also no shadows. I guess this one would look way better with the usual lighting.

[yossam]

I think so too...............will start on that later. 

[ADE]

"no sun you don't do it like that, you do it like this".......(quote from my old man many moons ago)

[fleetwood]

The exr or true hdr images will provide lighting by luminosity but do not produce cast shadows only self shading, but you can just position a Terragen sun of low intensity to make whatever level and direction of cast shadows you want to see.

[yossam]

Add sun, get shadows...............

[bobbystahr]

Add sun, get shadows...............

That works much better

[fleetwood]

Looks good. Nice vehicles too.

[masonspappy]

The grass needs some work but those models are beauty!

[Hannes]

Agreed! Much better, but the grass is not good.

[yossam]

Same grass as in the first pic..............think it's the lighting difference.