The "What Are You Working On?" Thread

[mantasisg]

Well, maybe everything has to be UV'd, but a lot of stuff can be UV'd quite randomly. It depends.

For me possibility of using multiplied detail was a great deal. It was easier. Much more rational way for a lot of materials. And probably saved about 40Mb of kn5 model file because of that, plus got better looks. Another thing which I discovered was that not every texture needs to have Alpha channel, this helped to reach even lower weight of the model file.

One thing which is a bit puzzling for me is, how to make rivets using normal maps, I have no idea. Done one trick for interior aluminum part rivets, but couldn't do it very clearly without distortions.

If anyone could explain me that, I would be happy

Edit: One more thing which I learned, which allowed me to use multiplied detail in the first place. I have a lot of impact labels on the dash, at first I was trying to do it on same material. And it was absolutely wrong and horrible. Later I created separate material for impact labels, and made them as separate objects, planes to be exact, with edges extruded towards the dash.

 

[AccAkut]

But how did you guys live without AO baking, it makes such a huge difference

Small thing I found while doing the KRB main shell UV, I did it BEFORE applying the Mirror modifier, and had put an image with a black line right in teh midle as UV background image to align that half-UV to.

I had checked those buttons here

after doing that half UV I applied the Mirror, and then just had to align the other half to the first, which is made easier if you use 'G' and than either 'x' or 'y' to lock movement to either axis.

 

[Stereo]

To get stuff seamless across the middle in blender, I manually move the 2d cursor (somewhere in the T-tab for UV editing) to the halfway point of the image (512, 1024, whatever) then select the vertices along the center and set 2d-cursor coordinates and scale to 0 in X.

 

[Deleted member 130869]

I'll start with the 1988 Porsche (17 and 19)

 

[Flat-twin]

That's the very first shot. I had less time than I thought to work on it tonight.

I'll do white wheels. The best would be BBS wheels but I can't on the short tail and I found one photo where she had white (5 strokes - I'm not quite certain of "stroke" but my technical english is limited) wheels.

 

[Dave_6]

Looking good so far! Not sure why Kunos didn't include the BBS wheels with the short tail. So many of the real ones had those wheels on them. I'm guessing there's no way to use the texture from the long tail though.

 

[Modek]

So this is the previous one .. turns out that i think i might just reshape this "2nd" model (this render has no smooth modifier)
as i think speacilly the side shape is spot on and wont be matchable with blueprints

ahhhhhhhhh

 

[BDA]

Think this'll be my last real-world livery for a while. I already know the pinstripes on the top are going to be a pain in the ass and I haven't even started them yet.

 

[mclarenf1papa]

That's the very first shot. I had less time than I thought to work on it tonight.

I'll do white wheels. The best would be BBS wheels but I can't on the short tail and I found one photo where she had white (5 strokes - I'm not quite certain of "stroke" but my technical english is limited) wheels.

Close. "Spoke" not "stroke"

 

[BDA]

It's coming together.

I could do a whole pack of Bayside cars now that I've almost finished the hard part.

 

[Deleted member 130869]

4.5 hours worth of work, after a full day of actual work. I have some of the sponsors on the side, looking for more info on the names (Schmitthelm? PMC?)

 

[Fat-Alfie]

 

[Flat-twin]

@mantasisg I found this.

 

[mantasisg]

Thank you, more photos always help. And the game of finding differences never ends I'm already certain about one. Front fender shape. By the way it looks like it is too tall, but it shouldn't be too tall.

 

[Fat-Alfie]

I think your wheels are just set in slightly too far. I think the wing shape looks correct. Try moving both the front and back wheels outwards by about 40mm and re-render, see how that looks

EDIT - looking again at the real / render, I think the problem might be the width of the front wing in front and behind the front wheel, like it doesn't taper enough going towards the front of the car. The distance between the tyre and back of the wing looks ok, but at the front the tyre looks set too far in. That says to me that the wing sticks too far out, not that the wheel is set too far in.

 

[Brownninja97]

Im gonna have to give up on adding these lines sadly, the template struggles as i get closer to the windshield

 

[NCIS]

I'm working on V8 Supercars season 2016:

next will be Nissan pack...Mod is not released yet,still under development...

 

[AccAkut]

Woah, that is a big project. Is this a conversion of another mod or scratch made by you?

 

[Flat-twin]

By the way guys, if any of you attented Spa Classic 2015 or Le Mans Classic 2016 (or any other recent race in fact) and have detailed photos off the TicTac livery I'm interested in.
I found several pictures from Spa 2015 with some detailed logos (race specific - the livery logos are easy to find) but not all so I'm looking for the small details now

 

[Dave_6]

I forgot about this one:

Always liked the older Miller colors.