Creating a car paint material

It is now time to create the material for our car. We already saw in detail how to create a car paint material in Chapter 7, Car Rendering in Cycles, but nothing forbids us to learn about another kind of car paint material!

Getting ready

Let's get started, and select the car mesh. As we can see, there are several material slots already assigned to the mesh. The materials that we will be using for the car mesh that really interest us are just a couple, that is the ones related to car painting, which we will explore in detail.

How to do it...

We will start by creating the white part of the car paint material. Let's add a new material in the first slot, and name it CarPaintWhite.

To create a car paint, carry out the following ...

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