Modeling a car.

[matth3w]

hey guyz.
I work with Maya 5.0, what is the best way to model a car???
With a cube and set every vertice in place?
or with a plane and create every part of the car?

I really need some help on this, so does anyone has a good toturial on this????

Thanx in advance.

matthew

you'll not find much help around here, everyone seems to use 3dsmax and lw. i use maya though, and i just make a small plane and extrude the edges around the shape of the car and tweak the vertex's like mad till youre ready to smooth

[NightEye]

There are some Maya users, but if they see this post.. That's the question :wink:

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[fat dude]

hey,
im a maya user and i saw this post! fancy that! i pull vertices around the shape of the car and smooth it off. always works for me! my only problem is that recently i was working on a dodge challenger and it was all going well but when i mirrored the poly shape and merged the vertices down the middle, i was left with a huge seam! when i smoothed it the whole car looked like a pile of s**t! can anyone help?

[SupaCharged]

Originally Posted by fat dude

hey,
im a maya user and i saw this post! fancy that! i pull vertices around the shape of the car and smooth it off. always works for me! my only problem is that recently i was working on a dodge challenger and it was all going well but when i mirrored the poly shape and merged the vertices down the middle, i was left with a huge seam! when i smoothed it the whole car looked like a pile of s**t! can anyone help?

the thing to do is to merge the connecting edges before smoothing, sometimes when you use mirror geometry the central edges are not all welded together, you need to do the rest manually!!!

gimem me some news if it works for you, it solved my problem with my s3

:wink:

[Hypersurf]

Originally Posted by fat dude

hey,
im a maya user and i saw this post! fancy that! i pull vertices around the shape of the car and smooth it off. always works for me! my only problem is that recently i was working on a dodge challenger and it was all going well but when i mirrored the poly shape and merged the vertices down the middle, i was left with a huge seam! when i smoothed it the whole car looked like a pile of s**t! can anyone help?

solution:
select the vertices you want to weld. select edit polygons -> merge vertices, then, with the vertices still selectec edit polygons -> merge multiple edges

after that the seams should be gone.

[fastback33]

Might i be able to do this using rhino??

[uway44]

you need to fix your normals.

[SuB-ZeuZ]

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