Collab 2020: Modeling Heavy Equipment (Backhoe)

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Fascinating.

Here is my version of a screw, above the stereo. 

And I did use subsurf…..

And in position……

Sometimes we get so involved in what we are modelling I wonder if the hour I spent modelling one screw to get it looking good close up , was it worth the extra verts. Which one are you?? I wouldn’t call myself an extrovert, per se, but I wouldn’t say introvert either. 

[Ingmar Franz]

@adrian2301 I would say that it’s not only a question of saving time which is especially important for people who’re doing digital modeling commercially but also a question of developping skills and of mastering a challenge. Of course, I could say that for example my rear axle is a rather hidden part and that most areas will never be seen at from a short distance in the final video but I wanted to model it as realistic as I can and learn what I needed to achieve this goal. 

When it comes to modeling a screw head with a cross shape, I think, it makes a difference whether the cross ends already before it can reach the head’s rim or whether it hits the rim. My problem was that I wanted to model a cross that uses the full diameter of the head so that the holding edges for the subsurf modeling ran into the round rim. I had no margin where I could somehow redirect these holding edges.

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Woot! Level Up! 

1198 to go for level 7.

@theluthier , XP’s for this week submissions?, I hope you was joking, you was right?? 🤨

[Kent Trammell]

this got a bit lost in the chat, but I’d like to volunteer for the steering column.

@spikeyxxx I nearly missed this in the thread here – That’d be great if you have the bandwidth! I’ll put your name in the spreadsheet for the steering column.

Also thanks for the tip about the back window. I hadn’t realized they did that. Shocker I’m sure 😅

[Shawn Blanch]

@spikeyxxx got the premium fiber package. I’m pretty sure he has unlimited bandwidth.

[Adrian Bellworthy]

I agree @duerer , It’s about the process of improving our skills. If I was on this DOG on my own and had a dead line, no way would I have an hour for the small details like this screw. But having said that I like the fact that I could learn to model the details like this , every little helps as they say.

[Shawn Blanch]

I love the look of the topology there Adrian but the center of the screw is probably going to be farther in (the center of the cross) and the outer parts next to the edge of the cross are going to be a little more shallow with a deep dive towards the center. You’ve gone this far might as well make it go a little more lol.

For me personally. If I was making this on my own I would probably be using decal machine a lot for the screws. Fake it where I can to cut down on poly count. Do a whole lotta effort to make 1 part look good then let normals, bump, and paralax do their magic.

[Shawn Blanch]

That screw right there is perfect candidate for a decal. Because the entire screw is inset in that circle depression and you can fake the depth really well on a flat plane that “gives off the effect” of depth.

[Kent Trammell]

Sometimes I think you’re right about that @blanchsb ha!

@dostovel I’m looping you in so you know about Spikey tackling the steering column. I think he can handle both it and the port console which is less complex than your starboard console.

Not that you couldn’t handle it, of course 🙂

[Adrian Bellworthy]

ESP – Extra Sensory Perception, we can perceive any time we like in our minds.

[spikeyxxx]

Nice topology @adrian2301 !

Looked at an older car interior I started on and there I did this for a slotted screw with ring:

with Subsurf:

and never to be seen up closer than this, probably:

[Omar Domenech]

Thanks for the trust Kent. I have actually ran into an inconvenience. I’ve had the office iMac in my home for the whole quarantine (five months now) and I haven’t had a computer of my own since almost a year now, and now I’ve had to grudgingly get back into the office, to hell with quarantine they said, so I don’t have a computer to work in at home now.

I’m always saying I’m going to get a rig together, but they’ve been such a headache in the past that I hesitate to build one. And then there was my super expensive Alienware laptop that the motherboard got toast after not even a year and a half, it was such a waste I lost all faith in laptops. So I’m in computer limbo right now.

I’ll just start modeling at work. I’ve done it before, I arrive an hour early in the morning, eat fast in the hour lunch break and leave one our late in the afternoon. That’s 3 hours for modeling everyday. It should be enough. 

[Shawn Blanch]

I have done that too Omar. It’s not convenient but since I am there I get some time in during my lunch hour.

I have got a Lenovo Legion laptop and I got a care package protection because I too do not trust windows laptops (I previously owned an HP and it was not so great). Even before my first year is up I think one of my fans is beginning to go out. Thank goodness for the protection plan. I’m going to try some progress on the chair tonight while I rewatch the Mandolorian episodes. We’ll see how it holds up.

[spikeyxxx]

Now, when you search for images of a CAT434E, you might get referred to CGCookie (probably depends on your search engine…):

[Omar Domenech]

We are hacking The Matrix. Mr. Anderson… surprised….to see me?

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