Light is right : Lotus 340R

[darth carth]

okay so here is my entry for the Light is right contest.

Not much yet, but it isn't easy to model this without blueprints to refer to.. so everything is done by sight.
So far it seems to be going good.. any tips are welcome ofcourse

ps: I ussualy use MeshSmooth, but some weird reason it completly messes up the mesh. As far as I can tell it's not caused by the mesh cause it works fine with TurboSmooth. Also if I convert it to an editable mesh is gets completly messed up aswell. (with messed up I mean completly disorted, because of polies that are vanished, and others which are completly deformed) I'll try to make a render of it in the next update

[schaefft]

Use a large sideview photo if you cant find any blueprints. Its better than nothing. And I cant see pictures btw.

[darth carth]

I got a shot of the back and front, but they have A LOT of perspective in them (almost like looking at the car trough a fishbowl :/

[tom120934]

About modelling without blueprint, you may do the following as an helper :
- Create a box sized accordingly to real dimensions of the car (length, width, height)
- Use car tracks and footing to create a rectangle (or not exactly a rectangle if rear and front tracks are different)
- Position it in the box : use the radius of a wheel (rim + tire thickness) as the height the rectangle should be.
- Create cylinders for wheels, using rims and tire dimensions.

This way, you've got a cheap workbasis.

Nice start so far, great choice of car !

[darth carth]

been a while and I restarted after I found a side and front print of this car.
This time I started on something different first though... the rims.

this should be pretty much the final version, if I can decypher the writing on the edge I'll add that to, but for now this will be it.

Now all I have to do is actually finish the rest of it

*Warning* the one with the 4 black rims is very high res (2560x2028 ) :roll:

[tom120934]

Nice to see you're still working on it. One more active entry for the contest.

Great work so far, I can't wait to some ... euh ... actually, an actual car on these rims

[Silent][Moebius]

just make sure you didn't only mirror the rims, because the the Lotus emblem will be the wrong way around

i like the material you came up with, it looks pretty compelling

[jms_3d]

looking good, would really like to see this car finished, good luck with the rest of the car i will be watching this one.

[darth carth]

Originally Posted by jms_3d

would really like to see this car finished,

lol you and me both then

I did the front spoiler again with a much better polyflow, unfortunatly I haven't had the chance to render it yet, but I'll try to post some shots of that including a wire tommorow. This car is a pain to model though.. so many curves and lines to keep in mind :? but I'm still motivated.

As a side note I mentioned that I drove along in this on Zolder during a trackday.. and there is a video of that. So for those interested in this car (and more specificly the amazing sound of that "small" 4 in line engine, check this video out

YouTube - Lotus 340R

(off-topic: if you check out my other videos on youtube you'll also find a video from inside a Viper RT/10 on the same day and track.. and notice how pafethic it sound is compared to the small 340R )

[darth carth]

as promised the renders from yesterday.. and also an update.

The front part of the chassis is still a very huge WIP, loads of bumps and pinches, wavy lines...
I was suprised about how hard it actually is to resolve as much pinching as possible with all the curves that melt together. Around the area where the mirror is going to be there is a curve from the window, the center curve (that goes across the headlight, and the main curve of the bodywork which all melt together..

Sumarized.. this car is a pinch fest

anyway C&C is always welcome offcourse...

(ps: could someone link me to where this Point system is explained? This was implemented when I was inactive on this forum.. and I got no clue what it is or why it's there :/ )