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Pearlescent Car Paint V-Ray Material

Pearlescent paint changes its color, depending on the viewing angle. This type of paint is almost always metallic as well, so take your Metallic shader and replace the Base color with a Falloff map, then set it to change between 2 different colors. Common combinations are purple/green, red/orange, light blue/light pink, etc. You can then instance the Falloff map into…
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Metallic Car Paint V-Ray Material

There are two main differences between metallic car paint and the standard car paint. Metallic paint is more reflective than standard paint; it has less diffuse and more gloss. For the base layer, increase the Reflections and Glossiness. Various paints can be very metallic (see example photo above) or somewhat less metallic... in which case, you would simply lower the Reflection…