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

[William Miller]

Ignore my pinching problem; I fixed it.

[Aaron Rudderham]

I don’t suppose we have any classic car nuts in here who can tell me what this thing is?

Kinda bums me that I can’t seem to find any good textures for the fuel gauge or the speedometer either, makes me wish I was better in PS.

[William Miller]

Is there any way to randomly distribute dials, switches, and buttons across the “console” (Is that what it should be called?) without using a particle system?  Whenever I use a particle system, the rotation isn’t properly aligned.

[William Miller]

I don’t want to do it by hand because it’s large and has a curved surface.

[Aaron Rudderham]

@williamatics To my – admittedly limited – knowledge, no. The closest thing I can think of is using group instancing like the gauges in the HSM Fundamentals, but that’s still a massive stretch considering you’d have to still place them manually, you just save time with duplicating. You have any idea @tbrbn?

[silentheart00]

@thecabbagedetective Trip tracker?  Like how many miles in a trip you took to the store and back?

[silentheart00]

Getting there.  Must… work… faster….

[Jake Korosi]

@silentheart00 Now that’s looking sharp. 

[Jake Korosi]

@thecabbagedetective I think I see the “PRND12” indication at the top.  As for the rest, not sure.  Maybe one of those “driver information center” gadgets that shows when you have a door open.  Or a trip computer like silentheart says.

I guess one reason its hard to find good textures for your gauges and such is that I imagine few Rolls owners work on their own cars, so the aftermarket is pretty small.  Could be wrong though.

[Morten Fjellheim]

Question: Do i have to use the the exterior model to make the intyerior, or can i seperate it and make a new model?

[mrdojo]

I am slowly getting there. Underestimated the trunk part a bit as it had allot of difficult holes to model in.
Already planned the inside interior out but I first want to tackle the bottum of the car. Been ill the last week but working on this has been my guilty pleasure 😛 good to see everyone is still at it!

[Thibaut Bourbon]

@williamatics Here’s a way to solve your issue using particles system, or rather hair particles system:

You first have to model some buttons,switch, gauge and so on (namely ItemA,B and C on the image above) and create a Group (ctrl+G) in which they all belong. Then on your dashboard (here I used a plane that I subdivided with W so I can get mort verts) you create a Hair particle system. Don’t forget to activate “Advanced” so you get access to the rotation sub-menu. Use the Group render mode and adjust the rotation as needed (in my case, Global X, depends on your object orientation).
You will then have to play with the emission setup to get a result you like: the difficulty is not to get a dashboard that looks too random, as if someone just threw stuff on it. Good luck!

Edit: i read too quick! You want to avoid particles, my bad. If you have your assets ready, simply duplicate them (shift D or Alt-D for instancing) and use the Ctrl button to snap them. You need to activate the “Align Rotation” as well.

[Jeremy Pouillot]

@arev I have 147 objects on my car, so yes you can separate. At first I made the exterior and then separate pieces to keep base shape and work on each particular parts.

[William Miller]

@tbrbn That’s what I was afraid of.  My submission is going to be late.

[Thibaut Bourbon]

@williamatics Could you use a texture as a displacement map ? For example taking a dashboard image, turn it into greyscale values and use the microdisplacement tool? Might be overdrivensolution though, perhaps a simple image would do the trick.
To be honest the “traditionnal” kitbashing technique is not that much time consuming once you do it a couple of time you can even instantiate groups of assets rather than individual assets. Just make sure it doesn’t look too repetitive then.

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