e36 coupe - yet another one

[pavelpasiuk]

After dumping the e46 project because of technicalities, and getting exited about the e36( the car i will most probably buy in 2 years)..i started that one..a lot of love had gone into it, however, i'm stumped by the headlights..
how to make the front glass??

i have a poly-box..and my thinking is that i should seperate the edges from it, and make some surface out of it, so i would be a perfect fit..however, nothing i know works..

Can anyone suggest something??

[300zx_9]

well just select the border of ur headlight box and cap it. then deattach the newly capped surface and draw all ur edges. then chamfer it and extrude it back a little and see how it'll turn out.

[DJ CRYS]

thx very much 300zx_9.....you are great......thx again

[DrumBoPing]

looks decent so far

[Nero]

good nice car.. only 1 problem its not a coupe its a seda....

[mpfive]

Originally Posted by Nero

good nice car.. only 1 problem its not a coupe its a seda....

how do you know, he didnt get to the doors yet, and if you are looking at the blueprints, they are very easy to modify, and if you take a close look, the blueprints are infact the ones of the coupe

[pavelpasiuk]

The prints are coupe..the proportions of the parts tell that..
i have solved the problem..just created another object, and then fitted it to the HL housing..
the thing is that the headlights are just rectangles..so no fancy poly-stuff here.. took me 2 days to figure it out..
here is the render..

[Nick_ll]

Don't smooth too much there. The headlight assembly doesn't have rounded edges.

Might also want to check the shape of your kidney grill, which in real life looks wider to me. I'm also pretty sure your nose panel (the body panel that includes the grill and goes under the headlights) is off where it meets the fender. It doesn't have this little wider spot. I think it goes straight there.