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Thomas Suurland - one of the pioneers of V-Ray/HDRI automotive renderings has posted these conceptual 3D renderings on his website, www.suurland.com - (Rendered with V-Ray) Fist up we have images of the first Danish supercar, the Zenvo ST1, (7litre V8, 810 kw, 0-100km/h in 3.0 seconds, top speed 375km/h) Next up we have renderings of the beautiful Peugeot 308z concept - a potential Audi TT competitor:

I have a fondness for old cars, so I love it when a fellow 3D modeller shows their appreciation for a classic car by modelling it in 3D. Check out these beautiful 3D renderings of a MK 1 ford Escort RS and a Ford 105E Anglia by DM Multimedia My Mom's first car was a red and white Ford Anlia 105E :) These cars where modelled in Autodesk 3ds max and rendered with Mental Ray. There are also a whole lot of handy 3D car modelling tutorials on the Dm Multimedia site, here Thanks to my brutjie Ant for the link :)

I found some more free 3d car models here (3ds max file format) They seem to be pretty good quality Here is a Mercedes S55 that I rendered out. I had to change quite a few of the materials to V-Ray materials, because the file comes with some standard 3ds max materials, but other than that the models are pretty good. There is also a Nissan 350Z, Audi Q7, Honda S2000 and a bunch of other stuff

Thomas Suurland, better known as the guy who renderers über photo realistic cars ( http://www.suurland.com/ ), has launched a new site called cg-source.com . If you look at his car renderings at http://www.suurland.com/ , you can see that he definitely knows what he is doing when it comes to 3D and V-Ray. His new site sells high-res textures and he also has some great, free maxscripts. This image shows the process on how to use the FloorGenerator, MultiTexture Map, and a MultiTexture of floorboards to create a dynamic floor that can be any size, it will never tile and it can still be seen up close: An rendered example of the products in use:

Chrysler is giving away some 3d car models here The cars available are: CHRYSLER: 2008 Sebring Convertible Limited JEEP: 2007 Wrangler Rubicon 4x4 two-door DODGE: 2008 Viper Coupe SRT10 Each data set includes 3D geometry, reference materials (photos, charts, graphics, etc.) HDRI domes, and photographic backplates for each vehicle, sheesh! Very cool of them to give this stuff away! Be warned though, it's a lot of data, like a couple of Gigabytes worth! Also, most of the meshes are in Maya format, so you will need to convert them in something like Okino PolyTrans if you want to use them in Max. here is a screenshot of one of the cars - i'll post up a render when I have time...