Xoliul's lowpoly traffic cars

[Xoliul]

Lego thing is finished, and it's due in two weeks, so I figured why not try and improve my modelling speed meanwhile. And as I will probably need some car graphics for a 2D game I'll be programming, i took on the task of creating lowpoly traffic cars.
I'm thinking the same style Multimediaman does, about 1000 poly's a car, and most importantly, finish them in 3 days/ 10 hours work each.

I've already made a first one within all my goals; a VW Golf 4 with 987 polygons and two textures. started it two days ago and now it's done. Picked a Golf because it is the most common car around here (saw like 25 on a 10 minute drive today), and traffic should be boring and bland I think
next up is a Volvo V70, then probably some Mercedes coupe, something a la Mitsubishi Starion, and maybe a Renault Espace. I plan to do at least about 5.

[clix101]

looks good, can we see a wire? cos it looks very low poly yes, i know, <1000 but still...

[Xoliul]

Doesn't really matter that it looks lowpoly, i'll end up using them for topdown renders anyway. But I attached a wire of the Golf, and also of the 99 Volvo V70 I started yesterday (3-4 hours already). By the way, does anybody know what tires they put standard on a V70 (flashg?) ? I want to use the correct texture.

[Xoliul]

I know they're boring cars, but that doesn't mean a comment is not welcome
Well, I said 3 days, so 3 days it is for this 1999 Volvo V70.

Next up: 2000 Mercedes A Class.

[Johnas]

Heh sorry mate I don't know what tyres they used to have, maybe Nokias NRT(?)

Brilliant lowpoly work thou. Only couple of things got my eye. Golf's rear door looks bit too small and front of the V70 is looking more like S/V40.

[revelli]

nice work so far
that volvo is looking really good, but i would prefere that if you could show us your wires too with new car

[Boon342]

Hey, when your done, could you please post these for download? Please *Begging Face*

[Xoliul]

I will definitely not make them freely downloadable for everybody, if you see how many stuff gets stolen, and how people even here at SMC almost always forget to mention they're using somebody else's rims on their car. But If you can give me a valid reason for you using them personally, then I'm sure we can work something out.

And here's another wire, as revelli asked. Allready 4-5 hours into this Mercedes A Class. The fun thing about these everyday cars, is that can just go out into the street and find one easily, like I did for the wheel textures. Good pics of those were hard to find, so I just shot a picture of them on the parking of the local supermarket

[revelli]

fine work, but i see little polygon wasting on side and front bumper-bottom part

[Xoliul]

The side is fixed, thanks for pointing that out. I left the ones on the bumper in, because they give me tri's and shading problems, and I prefer to have 6 more polygons instead of shading that isn't correct.

[palat]

Hey Xoliul, i am eagerly following this thread as i may have to do 4 lowpoly cars and this is a totally new universe to me. (Textures will kill me beforehand...)
Good and fast modeling!

[Johnas]

Originally Posted by Xoliul

I prefer to have 6 more polygons instead of shading that isn't correct.

Heh I would also.

Merc is looking aswell. Makes me wanna try to make real lowpoly car aswell

[Xoliul]

Hi guys, thanks for the kind words! I feel like i'm really getting good at lowpoly (car) modelling now, might have to move onto something else (ahum, highpoly :/) soon.
And Palat, looking at your site you seem proficient with Illustrator (your 2D illustrations?), so creating textures in Photoshop should not be that hard using some simple techniques. If you'd need some advice when you're making those cars, I'd be delighted to help you on that. Not that many people here that do textures anyway. I'll attach the Mercedes' texture.

But enough talk, the Mercedes is finished, on schedule.It could've been done yesterday (i had the body modelled in like 2 hours), but i gotta study too.

(also: does anybody know what an alpha channel for a diffuse map does in 3ds Max ? I spent like an hour trying to figure out what was messing up my reflections, turned out to be the alpha channel of the .tga body texture!)

[Tigga]

Mhhh.... lowpoly... yum... me likes!

Looks really good.