new to 3d modeling...: Mercedes CLK GTR

[habix]

hey...

i was working with 3ds r3 (in dos) a few years ago (5-7?!?), and now i started modeling again... in maya.

For my first ever project i choosed Mercedes CLK GTR... so here's the last three weeks progress of modeling and learning....

3 quick-renders of surface:




Some interior:



And some shader renders (1.5 week old):




Currently i'am working on wheel forks & related.... (no smoothing)



C&C are welcome....


and... i'we got a question for the experts: how do you make nice borders between chasis parts (doors, hood, ....)?????


thanks up front (hope i didn't kia your 14.4K & sorry for my bad english)

[Alex2002]

wow looks great keep up the good work
And i love the rims

[royster]

Looks good, how are you modeling this in Maya. Nurbs or Polys?
Keep up the good work!

[bredo]

Originally Posted by Alex2002

wow looks great keep up the good work
And i love the rims

great?? it looks perfect.

[habix]

I appreciate ya'lls' comments.

As i said, i'am completly new to this... i started with poly modeling from blue-prints (read many tutorials - not only from maya...). at about this stage (25.5.04)



i started experimenting with sub-d & converted poly to subdiv + messed up my poly-model file. ( :x ) So i was forced to continue in sub-div for a day. Then i converted my subd model back to poly and started cleaning polys (the convert left too smooth mesh to edit, so i started to manualy delete edges and build new straight ones). It took me about 3 days just for the hood... (thank god for auto incremental save function - i use it all the time now ).

Now it's poly only... Nurbs is a little bit hard for me right now, but i hope to learn it quick ... I made some parts of car in nurbs, but converted them in poly (steering wheel, car seats, windscreen).

thanks again for your comments.


p.s. the question still stands: how do you make nice borders between chasis parts (doors, hood, ....)? Do you use bevel? Scale down the door to make space?
Currently i have my chasis borders cut - but aligned (**0 offset) and i don't wont to mess my model up with ugly borders.

oh... i'am storing some renders on http://djhabix.intelcom.si/tut_clkgtr/renders/
(mostly tests... so don't expect anything...)

and you can see my progress from day 1 on http://djhabix.intelcom.si/tut_clkgtr/
(screen-shoots as i'am posting my learning progress on some other forum). Will keep you updated!

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[habix]

Some wire renders: pars i'am working on

[Cllkgs]

theres alot of details in this project. I like it so far so keep it coming. Nice modeling.

[habix]

Cllkgs: thank you, but i'am not happy with all the parts... last night, i found som more realworld-photos (more detailed) & i still got a long way to go.
The trouble is... i have no low-poly / high poly version... Wysiwyg.... Only semi-smoothed surface, hard as he** to model), or am i simply not using the right tool? :\

I'am only learning now, where my mistakes were from begining.
Well, i'll finnish it anyway...

sry for any bad english

[3D Freak]

Wee, še en slovenc tle.

Čakaj mal, ta model sm pa vidu na 3Delavnic, pa nism nikol preveč podrobno pogedal. ops:

Drgač pa dost dobr zgleda.

[habix]

3D Freak: english? (k smo glih na angleskem forumu )

Thanks for comment. I'am completly rebuilding the front and rear bumbers since they were somehow modeled with out pics (what was i thinking). I'll post some new pics as soon as there will be something new to see (i build bottom part & added some details to interior).

Keep sending 'som critics... :wink: