[ENDED] BC3-1806 – June 2018 Class Homepage – Vehicle Modeling with Blender

[Bauke Post]

@williamatics You could also put the shrinkwrap on top of the subsurf. That would work just fine.

[William Miller]

Okay, I updated the blend file.

[Adam Bowkett]

WIP,  The mouse is mightier than the pencil!! Haha

[silentheart00]

Started my model today after a busy week.  My side view doesn’t line up, which is annoying, but I’ll figure it out.

[Char Hunter]

@michallis  Here are some tutorials I’ve relied on before for making holes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7gAdcyzHYs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc52fcrHvAA

They’re kinda of old, but could still be helpful.  

Also, this one using knife project.

[Aaron Rudderham]

@silentheart00 Yeah I have the same issue where my blueprints don’t align at all, fortunately I’ve made good progress using a myriad of references to the point where the blueprints might as well not be there. It’s surprising how much you can fill in the gaps with a photograph and the naked eye so grab as many references as you possibly can, it’ll be a lifesaver.

[silentheart00]

@thecabbagedetective Yeah, I’m working on it.  Fixed the blueprint a little bit, but I’ll just have to wing it slightly in those murky areas lol

[Kent Trammell]

@thepainter Progressing nicely, Palo 👌

@baukepost Clever solution to the pinching! That’s smooth as a baby’s bottom.

@martinlisen  You’re nailing the complex curvature. And with such efficient topology. Great work 👏

@thecabbagedetective Looking crispy! By ‘crispy’ I mean precise details 👍

@michallis Definitely getting there! As far as I can tell, it looks like the topology needs to be like the image below, where the edges start further apart and gradually pinch in closer toward the bottom:

[Kent Trammell]

@mrdojo Great advice. Thanks for taking the time to share this 🙇🏻

[Kent Trammell]

@jack07 Phenomenal job. You absolutely should be 200% happy with the end result. You’ve clearly put a lot of work into this model and it shows! If I had one tiny critique it would be that the edges feel a little on the sharp side. The closer I get I can certainly tell it’s all smoothed via subsurf, but from the distance in the render, it could almost be mistaken for lo poly. But it’s a minor note. You earned an A this week easily!

Now, let’s say I want to make it game ready, would this be okay to bake normals to a simplified mesh?

Yes you can bake very good normals from your subsurfed model down to a lo poly version. In fact that’s arguably the highest quality technique for hard-surface game models. You can find a lot of examples by looking for Halo 5 assets on artstation like this one.

[Kent Trammell]

@dostovel You can select all objects and go to the object properties and in the “Display” section,  enable Wire and Draw All Wires while holding ALT. This will enable those settings for all selected objects simultaneously.

[Kent Trammell]

@benkroft Good progress, Tobias! It’s definitely coming along. Perhaps a bit on the boxy side right now. A top view would have been helpful for that. Also matching photo-reference will be helpful. Keep up the good work!

[Kent Trammell]

@tbrbn I’m drooling over that tire tread 😍 Wow. Those details are major eye candy. Excellent work

[Kent Trammell]

@baukepost I agree with @williamatics that the extrude inward could benefit from being deeper. You could angle the walls of the intrusion so it’s beveled rather than 90 degrees all around.

[Jack]

@theluthier Thanks! I started adding some beveled edges to break a little the boxy look!

That armor 😍

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