The "What Are You Working On?" Thread

[garyjpaterson]

Awesome job! Once you finish tweaking that spline it'll put you in great stead for your model, will be a breeze after that!

 

[Ben O'Bro]

Shoutout to Gary for showing the spline + photomatch way of creating a car.
Made a spline model based on blueprints, and just now matched some pictures to it. Some parts are still obviously wrong, like the front, but overall it's pretty decent already. And since it's my first attempt at camera matching it could probably be better. I'm getting error values around 2.5 where under 1.5 is recommended.

just like the license plate says: "YAY" !!
you beat me to it
i had prepared the folders at home with all the references for some time now aha
neat work on the splines! Like gary says, it's heaven to work with, saves a LOT of time when placing the polygons. Looking forward to this one

 

[Kyuubeey]

Is this even remotely the right way to do these windows? I'm still looking at other wireframes to get an idea. I can scrap the whole thing if need be: whole damn car if need be. Although I think the fender area is alright.

An idea I had would be to make the underlying metal flat and thin, and model all those other metal parts around the side windows separately. The front window seals I will model separately for sure. The main issue is making it work with the bonnet and sides.

 

[Davide Nativo]

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Did this car really need two brake calipers, on ventilated rear discs?

 

[Kyuubeey]

Did this car really needed two brake calipers, on ventilated rear discs?

That's a hydraulic rear brake. For drifting. E-brake doesn't control a drum but instead presses the caliper, independent from the other braking system.

First picture I could find in my folder that has a good side view of the windows.

 

[motori nella leggenda]

 

[Kyuubeey]

(video)

Nice. Any interior shots? Who is doing physics and sound?

 

[garyjpaterson]

Its pending a RaceDepartment Investigation™ if it gets uploaded

(Rims, if anyone was wondering. They look awfully similar to the Alfa GTA ones.)

 

[Kyuubeey]

Its pending a RaceDepartment Investigation™ if it gets uploaded

(Rims, if anyone was wondering. They look awfully similar to the Alfa GTA ones.)

To me it looks like the very front end and the rest of the car don't fit in, so I'd not be surprised if there's some Alfa mesh in it. The flow is clearly cut-off and the edge quality varies for a model that's worked so far...

For all I know it's temporary. It'd be nice if he'd remodel everything from the ground up himself to replace whatever's, uhh, "inspired" by other works. Wink wink nudge nudge.

 

[CobraCat]

Looks darn close to the real version

 

[Stereo]

Am I fiddling with CM showroom stuff more than actually driving it? Almost certainly yes.

 

[SunBro]

Am I fiddling with CM showroom stuff more than actually driving it? Almost certainly yes.

That mod will be da bomb!

 

[Kyuubeey]

Revised the window area and the rear quarter. The windows right now are not supposed to include the metal liners, but instead what I imagine the metal's shape to be underneath. It appears like the metal somewhat follows the shape. I need to model the liners separately anyway for the material, so might as well do it right. Need to find more reference though. The shape's not quite as clear-cut as it appears from the side...

 

[garyjpaterson]

I'd really be splitting via smoothing groups (or whatever is the Blender equivalent) to get hard edges where needed to avoid excessive loops. Think CC posted about that earlier, will really help imo.

 

[Kyuubeey]

I'd really be splitting via smoothing groups (or whatever is the Blender equivalent) to get hard edges where needed to avoid excessive loops. Think CC posted about that earlier, will really help imo.

I haven't yet even applied the subdivision, just modeling with subdiv on but not applied. Maybe I'll take a look at smoothing groups later.

The advice to use smoothing groups right now feels to me like advising a beginner painter doing an under-sketch to limit their color palette and main values so the piece reads better, despite not yet being at the actual painting stage. I'm more concerned about the structure and organization of the model than the technique.

 

[Stereo]

I'd really be splitting via smoothing groups (or whatever is the Blender equivalent) to get hard edges where needed to avoid excessive loops. Think CC posted about that earlier, will really help imo.

On blender you set edge sharpness with the crease tool (shift+e) on a per-edge basis if you want it to apply to subdivisions, or set sharp edges (ctrl+e, 9)

Anyway the point is you don't add the extra edge loops until after the subdivision modifier is applied, they make your model worse

 

[Kyuubeey]

On blender you set edge sharpness with the crease tool (shift+e) on a per-edge basis if you want it to apply to subdivisions, or set sharp edges (ctrl+e, 9)

Thanks, I'll take a look next time I model. What exactly does that do, play with normals or geometry?

 

[Stereo]

It changes how far subsurface moves the edges from their original positions on the mesh.

At 0 (default) a square turns into a circle, at 1 (maximum) it stays essentially a square, in between it's just less round.

 

[garyjpaterson]

You can use smoothing groups on the low poly to help keep your high poly organised.

Quick mock up, low poly shape, with smoothing groups applied:

And after subdivision respecting smoothing groups:

Then same model, just manually 'cleaned up' (obviously on such a simple example there is much needed), and manually added a chamfer to the shoulder line:

To get the same(ish) sharp edges without smoothing groups, you end up with a lot of loops that take time to clean up later, which is more what i'm seeing on yours right now:

Lots of different ways to go about it, but thats how I would do it.

 

[Kyuubeey]

@garyjpaterson

Ah, now I see the advantage to workflow. I misunderstood it. I'll take a look later.