MG x-power SV

[celica1985]

the m3 is on hold for an indeffinet amount of time. started this in max 4.2 a day ago

[Darker]

where do u downloaded blueprints? Can u post it here??? Thanx

[celica1985]

i did see a 3 view of it somewere on here but they were at very off angles.
i am useing a side picture reference that i have attached and a butt-load of angle refs.

[Le Bucheron]

your heaadlight need to be bigger, i think you need to make them highter
btw i know its difficult to model without print so good luck!

[Lynx]

I did have a few shots of the front straight on but i deleted them

[celica1985]

small update
i did end up inlarging the hedlights a bit but according to the side ref i am useing, the headlights arnt very tall. usually as long as i have a side ref and lots of angle pics i can do pretty good. most of my experence in 3d modeling came from low poly firearms, witch you usually only have a base side ref and angle pics

[celica1985]

nothing like losing a whole days worth of work cause your app gets shut down unexpectedly for now apperent reason *sigh*

[tommy9286]

have you ever heard of the autoback folder? your work gets saved in there automatically, every (dont know the amount of time) but if your app shuts down after a couple o fhours of work chances are your only gonna loose like a half hour of work. But you have to make sure that you open it right away becosue if you start doing something else than its gonna start saving that and your old projects will be written over. Anyways its located in the 3ds folder. so just click back out of the scenes and go into autoback and your work will be there, thats is if you didnt start redoing it for a couple of hours. Anyways dont be pissed about that. Yesterday my brotehr tried installing freebsd on my good computer and he screwed up with partitions. so right now he cant get my old files back so i probably lost 3 months of work - (about 600 hours of work) that was not saved on any other disc or computer. It consisted of 2 in progress cars, 1 finfished car. A house, and some other little projects. Well is really sucks to be me right now

[Bjolletts]

Wow, great modelling job ! Looking forwards to seeing this evolve

as Tommy said you should make use of the autobakup feature in max, I have mine set to save in 5 rotating file every 5 minutes, plus that I save manually every 15 minutes or so with the incremental save.

Havent lost anything more than 5 or 15 minutes of work so far ... *knock on wood*

[RallyMaster]

some good detail there, keep it up

looks accurate to me

[celica1985]

thanks for the tip, no im new with max, i knew that sometimes when max crashes it can attempt to save before it cuts out but i wasent aware that it could auto save. i am usually good about saveing often but sometimes i just get so immersed in my work that i just forget =/ as for your lost info, have you tryed a data recovery program? if you havent i reccomend doing so, they usually can pull stuff even after a disk has been formated (so ive heard). funny story, i have about 3 years worth of work on my secondary drive and when i recently upgraded to xp, it decided that a good portion (about everything important!) was bad sectors of information,
scan disk wiped it all out but i was able to recover it with a recovery program (thankfully) anyways thanks for the encoragment everyone, i will be sure to keep the updates comming

[Le Bucheron]

man lok at teh frist ref pic posted in this forum, you can cleearly see that your light need to be at teh same high as teh ront grill and that not teh case in your model anyway keep us updatedd

[celica1985]

your right, will fix it tommorow. got the hood fins done again =/ tommorow i start the sides and rear =)

[celica1985]

ok i fixed the grill to look more correct. you were right it did look wrong, but it wasint cause of the size of the headlights shown in black in the first pic is the place where the headlight goes, in the second the grill has been lowerd a bit to match the position of the headlights

[pwbull09]

looks awsome and accurit concidering this is the first ive seen one

[Le Bucheron]

your lights are way betther now keep us udated!

[celica1985]

ok still no update, sorry i havent had any time to do any 3d work in the past 3 weeks. just moved and got a new job so all my time is spent setteling in. anyways this isint a dead project, i should have updates within the next week or so.

btw i am finally gonna own a car on my wish list! this saterday if everything goes well i will be driveing home in my new 2nd gen bmw 328is 5 speed! (1997 to be exact) soon to be modded and tweeked =D