Real World Racer : Citroën C5 Coupé DTM

[metabadger]

Hi Tom. A realy nice piece so far. Some great custom additions without killing the marquee. I used my microscope to find two minor issues if your interested. Both have to do with curvature as are pointed out in the attachment. Crits are crits . Take em or leave em.

PS. Although I don't get too involved with SMC, I love to explore this site and appreciate all the efforts of its' members. Its rare to see such activity by moderators.

Cheers, Metabadger.

[tom120934]

Thanks for your replies.

OriK, salim, glad you like !
chris20, I agree : the first version was really awful.
spitty3d, I will go for an interior if I have enough time.
metabadger, thanks for pointing them. I have to redo that whole part and the lower wing too.

Today's update is a really tiny one, just added the brake discs. I just started windshield, windows and rubber joins around them. Will be part of the next update.

I also started to sketch the headlights, after taking pics from my car. It was quite hard to shoot them in a useful way (I'm no great photographer) with all the sunshine of those last days. I just wait for the car to be be a bit dirty, it helped with reflections on headlight glass cover.

Now that I have good refpics, I realize the headlights are full of elaborated shapes, and it annoys me So maybe I'll just design new ones.

[tom120934]

Update, new rear wing, windshield, side windows, improved front wing, updated brake discs and details in wheels.

[younglion]

excellent modeling tom, i really like the shape of this car

[stopp!ng]

Even I don't like big spoilers I think that that one on your C5 should be attached a way more down like on this A4
http://www.carspotting.de/userfiles/...r-2005_421.jpg
Very nice modeling so far! It looks really great, will you make a standard C5 Coupé too, would look really elegant and is a nice opponent for Laguna Coupé and 407

[Krystian]

/me looks at reflections on Tom's car -*lols*: nice flip-flops Tom

I'm big fan of DTM style (Especially visual) so if add it to my love to rally C5 it makes me so crazy happy to see this one. I cross one's fingers for you and this project

[tom120934]

Thanks for fast replies !

stopp!ng, I dislike big rearwing too, but they're almost mandatory to achieve DTM style. And as I really dislike the kind you posted (no offense, really) I think I will keep it that way. I've seen that kind before, but it would prevent me from doing a nice rear end on the car.

Yes I will do a civilian C5 Coupé, I want to do a render combining both flavours, like the Audi A4 picture I already posted here : http://photo.netcarshow.com/Audi-A4_...5_photo_08.jpg. I wanted to keep my idea secret, but you got me !

Krystian, time will come soon for reflections. I didn't get you about flipflop, can you explain it to a dumb frenchman ? And you're wrong about rally : it's not a C5 but a C4.

Update, start of headlights with windshield and side windows now rendered as glass. I will try to finish modeling before moving to shaders & rendering.

[Krystian]

Oh dear, it's C4 tho they look almost the same so doesn't matter. My bad anyway.
About flip flops, I was talking about this image And I can't agree about "dumb frenchman "
Your glass shader looks very promising so far.

[Synetearis]

I am starting to really like this model! its really looking like a serious racecar.

[tom120934]

Krystian, it's my offwork mode Better than suit & tie to stand with heat (35°C all week long)

Synetearis, glad you like.

Here's first renders with shaders :

[schaefft]

That road needs a good normals and spec map

The car looks great, smooth and detailed

[sergo]

black rims don't fit at all imo
need to put white on

[metabadger]

This is looking really good Tom.

[Synetearis]

Originally Posted by sergo black rims don't fit at all imo need to put white on

I have to disagree...

[tom120934]

Thanks for replies.

schaefft, I just have a diffuse map I should try to draw a bumpmap at hand, but I never did that before. Any lead / tutorial maybe ?

sergo, the color scheme is not defined yet. It was just a try. I will give white ones a try.

metabadger, thanks !

Synetearis, I guess it's just a matter of personal taste

Update, full rework of the front bumper and I also tried depth of field.

[dppd69]

Great model Tom.
If you want my opinion I prefer the old bumper, it's more Citroen present style.
As for the DOF, I think that makes the car looking like a toy-model (i hope to have explained my idea). Really a good job on paint shader.

Cheers Dario

[MARTS]

Hey!! Tom
I like Citroen C5 Your C5 DTM it's very very great .

[tom120934]

dppd69, thanks ! Yes the DoF was too strong, I removed it for now, I will try again with lower intensity. About the front bumper, it's actually quite accurate, whereas the first one wasn't. Please check with the following refpic : http://blogs.rtl.fr/autoradio/public...n_C5_II_14.jpg

MARTS, glad you like. I like C5 as well, that's the reason why I bought one (if one day you're on the west, go to home if you want a ride ) What about entering our contest ?

New render, cleaning on front end of the car.

[MARTS]

lol Yes Tom

Entering in contest !!!!! Yes I thought a BMW M5 if I have time to

[dppd69]

What a cool drift we got here !!!
I've checked the bumper and it's pretty accurate. Great render and model as usual.

Cheers Dario