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

[Morten Fjellheim]

@dieedi I think you misunderstood my question. I know modelling with seperate meshes are posible and makes it alot easier. What i meant was if my interior had to be put inside the exterior model, as in another model. Or actually a complete diferent blend file.

[William Miller]

@tbrbn My problem is that the surface is curved at a weird angle, so it’s almost impossible to accurately rotate the components.  If I try to use face snapping, it offsets it from the surface by a certain amount.  I checked the object origin, and it’s fine.

[William Miller]

@tbrbn Wouldn’t a displacement map stretch the polygons?

[Aaron Rudderham]

@arev I remember asking @theluthier on stream if we should export the interior and exterior as one to which he said yes, so I’d make it the same blend file.

[Aaron Rudderham]

@jakeblended @silentheart00 Thanks for the suggestions guys! Started scouting the internet using the ideas and something I came close to was a dash warning light panel, seems to fit the bill, even if not exactly.

[Thibaut Bourbon]

@williamatics Usually the dashboards are quite flat so I wouldn’t place any buttons or screens in a curved area. For a tank, let’s look at this image:

You can see that despite the globally curved interior, all the instruments panels are on flat surfaces. My advice would be for you to create boxes on which to place all these instruments. You can then add cables between boxes and some attachment brackets for added realism.

Forget about the displacement map, it’s not a good idea 🙂 To answer you question, it will not distort the polygon if you use microdisplacement, but again, it’s not a good idea for a dahsboard I shouldn’t have bring that idea up.

[Darren McBain]

@mrdojo hope your feeling better and on the mend…
looking really sweet 🙂

[Jeremy Pouillot]

@arev oh ok, I model the inside in same file, as I use the exterior shape to make the interior. only thing I model in other files is the engine (to test some different model) and the scene  I’ll use for a final render.

[Jake Korosi]

So, Friday night I got nearly all the modeling completed.  When I work on it today, I have just a few more verts to push, a couple minutes’ work really, and then it’s on to shading.

[Bauke Post]

It would be cool if we added another vehicle creation thread in the community, but for texturing instead of modeling. Sharing our progress like that would be nice and encouraging.

[Aaron Rudderham]

@baukepost I agree, especially considering I suck at that kinda stuff so I need the help haha.

[Bauke Post]

@thecabbagedetective The complete vehicle production course by CGMasters also has a section on shading, you can find it on Udemy for 10$ at the moment. That course helped me a ton while creating my Lamborghini, since you can just use the car, course and materials (as a reference).

[Bauke Post]

Just noticed I didn’ t have symmetry turned on while sculpting my seats:(, does anyone have any ideas how to fix it without applying the multiresolution modifer?

[silentheart00]

@jakeblended Thanks!  It’s getting there.

[Kent Trammell]

@dieedi Your interior is coming along very well.

@thepainter Thanks for the clay renders! Not that one is better than the other – they each provide their own useful depictions. Really great model btw. And sure, you’ve more than proven yourself an active participant this month. You can submit late.

@tbrbn By all means, yes. At this point in my interior I’m fully aware of the plethora of pieces that need to be modeled and am fine with you (or anyone else) using HardOp’s pre-made pieces.

@martinlisen  That mesh is so minimal! Pretty amazing.

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