[WIP] CGC Challenge #2 – Vehicles – Kaj Suominen

[Kaj Suominen]

@smurfmier1985  Aye, trying to make something work for hours is good thing. been there.  sadly there is only a gut feeling to guide. 🙂

anyways. got pretty decent progress tonight.

[smurfmier1985]

@louhikarme that tail is looking much better 😬👍🏻

[Phillip Capon]

@louhikarme Looks good!  Are you using the bevel modifier or sub surf to smooth your corners?

[Kaj Suominen]

@train30 depending on the mesh and the result pretty much dictates which one i’m using, or if i’m using both in combination. 

for example, if the mesh is mainly angled and don’t have any curvature, i just use bevel modifier to get nice results. and the like on the rounded parts i use sub-d to get the smooth result and then bevel on the edges.

and since i’m also using lot of booleans (allthough in this particular project i’m still being very small amount on booleans) the bevel is your friend to get nice polished end results.

main thing is that there are no infinitely sharp edges anywhere to be seen.

[Kaj Suominen]

Slow Saturday, not that i had planned on working on this today. but wanted to atleast put placeholders for rotor, though they look good enough already, so might keep them. just needs little adjustments. the landing gear i hopefully finish tomorrow aswell the nose optical stuff. then its mesh ready to be converted to game assets and rest of the details will be normals.

[Kaj Suominen]

Most of the landing gear down, front optics done, made adjustment on the nose shape once more. giving more view for pilot. added searchlights. and realised that i need to rework the door a bit. its not looking good. ahwell. 🙂

[Kaj Suominen]

Coming along, though not fast enough. i may need to rethink the scene. still needing some more details. like cables. 🙂 lot stuff is going to come from  textures, like paneling and rivets and small stuff like that. but anything that really is stickin out needs to have mesh. and there are few still todo. 🙂

and i think its time for matcap now. 🙂

[smurfmier1985]

@louhikarme This is getting better with each iteration 😀

[Kaj Suominen]

@smurfmier1985 Thanks. taking a tad longer than i anticipated. 🙂

[spikeyxxx]

This is going really well Kaj!

One minor thing though, if you don’t mind: the exhaust pipes(?) seem to me to be out of style, compared to the rest..

But of course you already knew that.

I only just now noticed it, but you know how it is, once you’ve seen something like that, it’s hard to look away;)

[Kaj Suominen]

@spikeyxxx yeah, its been something i’ve just let slide for now. but the roundness is not gonna fly. 😀 Will be changing that.

[smurfmier1985]

@spikeyxxx now I can’t un-see it :-/

[Kaj Suominen]

@smurfmier1985 yeah, its been buggin me now whole morning at dayjob. 😀 need some angular exhaust pipes. 😀

[Kaj Suominen]

So, landing gear not finished, nor the cable stuff. however i think i now have the overral polished shape and big meshes ready (until i spot something else 🙂 ) anyhow, fixed lot of alignment problems in the mesh. simplified the top portion. added big details to where they made sense to break up the big planes. reworked the exhaust pipes. made the back door more visible.

[Kaj Suominen]

slow evening, but landing gear looks better. added cables to the searchlights aswell made changes to the holders. starting to be where i want to take it to texturing.

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