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18 Mar 2011Okay, not sure if this is the right place for this post or not but here goes. I've been trying to get into 3D modelling properly for ages... I really haven't made anything of Note but keep getting pushed away by the fact i don't seem to be able to produce anything particularly worth while. I've looked at a few of the cars on the first page and thought damn i'd love to be able to do something like that, but i woldn't even be able to do the rims and tyres much less the whole car. i wondered if anybody knew of a basic car tutorial that i would be able to follow with relative ease.
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ALi 608 posts20 Mar 2011If you're working with max, try to follow this evermotion tutorial. It's old, but a great start I guess and it gives a good point of view on car modeling. I modeled my first car from it.
http://www.evermotion.org/tutorials/sho ... g-tutorial
But if you want a more in depth tutorial, buy the Car4Ever DVD that's advertised at the bottem of that page. Or you can try . -
Kieran 57 posts26 Mar 2011My apologies if the following is too basic, but from the sounds of it you might want to review this hard surface modeling tutorial () before starting on your car. This tutorial doesn't show how to model anything in particular but it does cover best practice for creating and detailing all sorts of hard surfaces while avoiding mesh tension errors when subdivision is on. From past mistakes I've made modeling cars, I would pay attention to the following two things:
1) Use only as many polys as you need. Additional verts lead to additional headaches, since it becomes increasingly likely that one of them is out of position and is causing ugly distortions in the smoothed mesh.
2) Constantly turn on and off your NURMS subdivision (have it a shortcut like the tutorial recommends). This is how you will determine if you have just enough polys to create the form you need. It also lets you see if any verts or edge loops are causing unwanted tension or distortion when your model is subdivided.
These things seem basic, but it's pretty easy to forget them when you are caught up making something complicated like a car. Also, I think the principles of creating hard surface models are poorly covered in many tutorials so it's helpful to have them fresh in your memory before starting your model.
Best of luck with the modeling! Hope to see your progress on here soon.
-Kieran
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