Saab 9-3 Aero 2002.

[Nik]

About time for me to show off what Im working on, first car so be gentle lol...

I was brave enought to show it wideout edges and Im just going to say its far from finished.

Also I want to give credits to some ppl that been helping me alot:
Catlin.
Flashman (flashg)
MMM. (MultiMman )
and the rest that is active in the irc channel.

[Catlin]

Its looking great for your first car man!Keep up the good work and hopefully you will be a pro soon.

[Prykie]

Looks pretty good mate, are you making it for a game or just for fun?

[wired]

Looks great,Nik,much better then your previous attempt ,it will look great in GTA SA.

[Nik]

Thanks for the comments, they are always welcomed. (same with critics).

Updated first post with soem credits I forgot to add yesterday ( I was HIGH yesterday, SO HIGH that I totaly forgot to say thanks, sorry mates.)


No possible update to (maybe) friday cos of work.

[KMyers-MG]

a little rough around all light openings and wheel arches, but overall, seems quite nice so far.

[Nik]

Its friday!
Gonna chamfer the lights,doors etc etc.

Did a little update today and also I messed around with making wheels and painted it, I think its ready for convert to nfs2 lol.

Still alot to do tho.

[revelli]

maybe if you can post some wireframes of this, we can help you with optimizing that car
that super blue carpaint hides all details

[Johnas]

heh it does, looks good already. you've learnt something i see

[Nik]

Thanks.

Wires:

[Nik]

Not sure if you can call this a update but here it goes:

Still alot to do...

[multimediaman]

here's some suggestions...

[Nik]

Hm...Well why no chamfer's there?, not adding that much polies right?

And the area right to the wheel arch, tried with different smoothing groups, wideout luck.


Update in the end of the week.

[multimediaman]

it's not the faces it's adding, its the way that chamfer is messing up the normals on the bumper. making it look like the air intakes are curved inward, rather than adding a nice little ledge to catch highlights with

and for that trim work, just select the whole trim piece as an element, and hit the auto smooth button with the autosmooth angle beint 45°. That should solve those issues.

You and several others have had issues with smoothing groups and normals, I might just be tempted to make a tutorial over that stuff pretty soon

[Nik]

Havent fix those sorry been working out the part that I was most disepointed with, the rear.

Also I made some new shoes for the lady...they suppose to be 17"

[mpfive]

it looks like you tried to model each spoke seperatly, you could have just simply modelled one spoke, and just copy/rotate/weld the others, would be much more accurate and gets nice results

on the front bumper around the side "intakes" you can do better with less polies, if you need help with poly flow example, let me know

[Nik]

Yeah I did lol, couldent find the tut Redstar did with making the wheels.

Worked a little more with the foglights.

Is this better Mpfive?

[mpfive]

yup, much better, looks cleaner overall, good job