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

[Darren McBain]

@adsb2035 cheers for the encouragement Adam and definitely what I needed to give myself a shake, ive took a step back or a period today before work, and gave myself a kick up the rear and got back on the horse….

 gotta love this community 😉

so on that note, Ive spent my T breaks and lunch breaks and a little time inbetween when work was slow to come up with this.  not exactly on par with others but, im getting there, and im sure with more practice it will become less frustrating 😉

its by no means complete, but its a shell and filled in to a workable state.

for me one of the hardest things for me to get my head round was making the subsurf work for me, and not against me when getting the parts to line up and cutting out holes.  Another thing was, just how involved a project it actually is, which is really quite deceiving from the outset. got a bit carried away with loops all over the shop, and tried to go back and get my head round the quad junctions for some, not all parts.

but, practice, practice and a bit more practice….. ill get there 😉 

[Greg McKim]

@silentheart00

Okay thanks, whew that’s a lot for me right now. Maybe I’ll tackle all that after this course.

🙂

[silentheart00]

@doulos4iesou Yeah, no prob.  I’m figuring it out, too, so you’re not alone =]

[Zsolt Cseh]

@theluthier Kent thanks for the objective grade, yes the proportional editing was a try to make more curves, going to continue that on different way.

One small useful shortcut is my lesson after these adventures with proportinal editing -> Shift + H that hides everything else what is selected, not touching any other area.

[Jere Haapaharju]

@michallis I can totally recommend the shader forge

[Matt Dickun]

BC3-1806-Week 2 Homework

Here is my progress so far. I haven’t worked on it too much yet, but I got the basic form started.

https://sketchfab.com/models/67f92c5f614e4fa0afc60c3bf664d0ea

[silentheart00]

@theluthier I’d rather you have lots of assignments planned and scale back than have to figure out how to add more.

[Matt Dickun]

@silenthans That looks good for only the first week.

[Matt Dickun]

@doulos4iesou Do you know about the Sketchfab Exporter Blender add-on. Just search for it in user prefences/add-ons.

[Michallis Pashidis]

@michallis @theluthier I’ve added also the wireframes with subsurf 1 (optimal display)

[Jere Haapaharju]

@csehz I red your post and figuratively RAN to Blender and tried out that that shift + H and it’s perfect! After using so many times ctrl + I to invert selection and then hiding it this hint was priceless,. Thanks.

[Jack]

@silentheart00 @doulos4iesou  You don’t have to bake anything to get a good looking material for a vehicle, you only have to choose metalness workflow, change the color, metalness and roughness in Sketchfab’s 3D properties. You only have to bake something if your model uses maps and textures, which at this point in the class shouldn’t be used yet. For example, I did my airplane this way.

[silentheart00]

@az93 I’m pretty sure the exporter doesn’t support Cycles materials unless you bake them out.  It’s convenient to upload geometry, though.

[Zsolt Cseh]

@jack07 Jack that is brilliant advice so setting the material straight on Sketchfab! Thanks a lot

[silentheart00]

@jack07 Yeah, that’s fair if you want to use the simple built in material support, but I plan to have complex shaders, if I ever get this model done.  Things like adding paint flecks to give it that extra sparkle and stripes.

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