Midpoly Vehicle Contest: Pontiac Fiero

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After 4 days of modelling I've decided to show you this one. It now has 19920 tris and the contest limit is 20000. If you can see any major bumps please comment.

[Poltavskiy]

I dont see why you would use mesh smooth on a car like this. In my opinion it would looks much hotter without mesh smooth and just close attention to smoothing the car out.

[feral1]

coming along nicely, I do not know enough about smoothing like redstar to comment on that.
good work

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A little update (interior,tail lights and sign). It now has 19972 tris. About the meshsmooth, I think it looks better with some parts on. I'll try to texture a wheel.

[Johnas]

Really no reason to use meshsmooth besides doesn't the polycount go too high when you apply it? Could you show a pic with polycount in it?

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Originally Posted by FlashG

Could you show a pic with polycount in it?

Here it is.

[multimediaman]

The shape of the front of the doors really needs more work - it looks like it's dented in about where the wheel well top arches are... , and the little bumper extrusions are way too rounded and/or small... They're more like chamfer cubes on the actual car, plus they extend further towards the outsides of the vehicle

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Originally Posted by multimediaman

The shape of the front of the doors really needs more work - it looks like it's dented in about where the wheel well top arches are...

Maybe it looks like this from this angle but after I've zoomed it I saw that there's nothing to worry about.From other angles it looks good.

I've added speedlimiter and small side and bumpers lights. I've also textured front brand sign and deleted some meshsmooths, so it now has 19970 tris.

[multimediaman]

I'm not sure why I didn't notice this earlier... but two things: The pontiac fiero's rear window is not placed at the end of the pillars as you have it there... it is actually placed inset some. In fact, it's inset so far that you'd see it through those rear side windows you've got there ... bringing up my next point of accuracy, the rear windows you have there are not supposed to be windows. They're just painted-up detailwork on the actual vehicle, for that year of vehicle.

The '87 or so models started having it more like the configuration you have though


Here's an image that should show what I'm talking about fairly well.

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Thanks man I'll try to change this window. It must have been poor blueprints. Thanks for ref.

The '87 or so models started having it more like the configuration you have though

what do you mean?