My firls car in max... Plz step in :)

[Mista.David]

now, ive made som progress.. however i realy need tips on the lights.... Back ones will probably be a texture.. any tips on how i can find one?

[Mista.David]

My last progress, im of to bed .. Quick mirror and NO blueprints still unaccurate n stuff, baad angels, just two quick renders so u can critt a bite ... Still need headlight help

[Teuntjuh]

Wow, very nice for your first car. Especially the material. Can I ask what it is?

[Mista.David]

Hehe, its brazil free software and a basic brazil material, and the classic white self illuminant box above doesnt look too good, gonna learn HDRi with Mental Ray :roll:

[revelli]

nice, but weld the car in the middle

[Mista.David]

As soon as everything is done i will weld it in the middle... I think this is all that i have left:

1. Side mirrors
2. Door handle
3. Front Headlights
4. Rear Headlights
5. Side blinker
6. License plate

anything i forgot???

[XSImatrix]

max has a symmetry modifier, use it instead of mirror (auto welds, and can be set to 0.1 weld threshold, so no screwing around with chamfered lines)

gud work on this tt. (carpaint could use some work though)

[Mista.David]

Wow, checked out the symmetry thing... Works great, thought it might be a bit dodgy but it wasnt

[revelli]

and you can set the symetry modifier to view the symetry when you are modelling, very usefull for me

[Mista.David]

Thx ,

I am in STRONG NEED of a Rear light texture, all u previous Audi TT modelers WHERE did u get the texture?? Links or posts would be most thankful.

[Mista.David]

Hehe, okej here goes : i found the best pic of an audi tt i could on the internet (frem sortof behind) cut out the rear light in photoshop... (low resolution too bad) Then had my first experience with UVW mapping, after some hard work and experimenting i found the box button and managed to rotate, scale and move the bitmap in position VOILA!!!!

Veeeeery quick render with super sucky materials... but the texture is there and im proud as ****

[Mista.David]

Sorry if this gives a double post but i got bored and made a "propper render"

[Marksman]

The texture job looks quite good. Nice work, keep at the paint though, its just... not quite right, but I can't explain why.

[DrumBoPing]

your going to make the head lights later right?? just having the lights there as a texture doesnt quite look as good as the rest of the car

[Teuntjuh]

I've been having problems with the lights too, but I don't want a texture because that'll bring the realism down. Maybe someone can post a lights tut for a TT or something here. It would help us both and probably more noobies who don't know how to do lights.

I really like the car. I mirrored the halfs, joined them, and selected all vertices, welded using a threshold of 0,01.

[revelli]

pls, try to make the back lights 3d
then it will be goooood

[Mista.David]

Will do that , probably use same tachnique as front ones, then put a glas infront ( red) with a good bump map fro the back light efeckt thingy

[Mista.David]

No big modeling progress, will get some done soon, however i tried to get to know mental ray..... didnt go so well, scene is crap, but it has HDRi Wohooo, materials and everything needs tweeking... However heres a pic, all c&c are welcome plus all the tips about mental ray u have

[Ridge]

Lookin great, man! Here is a reference photo of the front end for ya! I have much much higher resolution, if you want it!

[ithackston]

I'm not sure if you already knew this, but if you right click your bp planes and uncheck visible to camera, they are hidden in the render. Great model, I'm still working on my first and there is NO WAY it will turn out this good.