Highpoly Nissan 350z

[Silent Screamer]

Here is my first attemp at a good high poly vehicle, i am used to making only low poly so this i find is quite a challenge to learn new modeling skills, i am using maya7, and here is my work so far, i am very slow atm but i'm trying to get it right the first couple of tries. any one with some good maya tips for high poly work would be greatly appreciated...thanks all

[staticrain03]

well i use to use maya but dont no more but the one and only tip i can give it to take ur time.. maya is not ment to speed through things... just keep going at it and youll get it right eventually.. but right now its looking good...

[Dori Kevin]

wow, that's heaps of polies. yours is looking great atm, keep going.

[Silent Screamer]

A little more work, i'm not to sure on how to do the seams, and all the parts are seperated, so again any tips and comments would be greatly appreciated..thanks

[Xer0123]

Make the image bigger please. . . it's hard to see detail cause it look bumpy from this pic.

[Silent Screamer]

yeah i never noticed the image size so here is a 1K square shot.

[staticrain03]

umm well it would be best to keep all the parts in one peace for now untill ur done with the whole model... but im not sure how to do seems in maya.. if i knew i would tell you... also the side light that need to be harden more.. and delete the poly that is way inside the lil hole... and hardent the side fender part thing

[Xer0123]

Ok thanks. . . If you want this to be a High-Poly model as in looking good model then you aren't reaching it for some reason which is probably due to your wires and your lack of sharp edges or if you mean High-Poly as in many poly scattered all over then you may get there but this is the early stage so keep it up.

[Silent Screamer]

The problem is that i do not know how to get a sharp edge with mesh smooth, i only know how to odify the normals to appear as a hard edge

[99GsTurbo]

in maya, instead of using chamfer, use bevel. what is you email adress. I can send you my tool commands so that you'll have all the shortcuts you need. one thing that helped me since I'm a maya user is setting up my own shortcut box with all the tools. basically to get you edges, you would have to seperate them a bit, extrude them inwards, and then go back to the edges and bevel them(which is like chamfering in max). if I was you, I would practice beveling on a box until you understand how it works and lean how to make the edges nice and smooth. that will really help a lot anyways ur model is looking good and if you google search nissan 350* tutorial maya, there's a guy who made a real nice high poly 350z and he models the whole exterior. anyways keep it up