Mercedes model

So I'm making a model of a Mercedes-Benz S class w140 :smile:

I wanted to post it up here, even though I don't have mu ht to show
(started today). So I will update this thread as I progress,
along the way I welcome comments and critisism. There really
isn't anything to say right about now.

I don't intend for this to be in any game, but if it looks any good
when it's done, I may lower the poly count and see if it can work in
HL2. But, until then, it's going to be high-poly and aiming for
realism.

I know two errors with the current progress shown below

1. I'm aware of that pinching on the bump of the hood

2. I'm aware of the depression in the middle of the hood

I was going to wait longer before starting the thread, but whaddya know, I didn't.

Feel free to ignore the thread now, but soon it'll get interesting... i hope.

This is the first render of the model;

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and this is the actual car;

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I think youre starting in the wrong direction of car modeling. It is
much easier creating a full car from a box by subdividiing it down.
Theres a tutorial somewhere on CGsociety, Ill see if I can find it.

Edit-

Lost and... Found. http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=156460&page=1&pp=15

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"Azelito, stop being a f**king bitch. All I see you do is complain and insult people in your recent posts. We don't care, go find a razor you emo pansy..." -Windows98

There are different ways I'm sure, however this is the popular method on www.smcars.net, where I'm learning the techniques.

IMO, it's best to pick a method and just learn it through, which is what I'm doing. THanks for the link though.

I always start out with a plane wich i drag out and subdived. etc.

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RUST Gamedesign
pepper design

The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

Yer, get the scale right at first. Maybe you should build a really simple model of it, then put the pieces your building on top to make sure they are the right size.

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

I know they are the right size, I have blueprints set up around the
model, and I align them to that. Once I sort out some minor
issues I can finally get something better.

Well, I finally got a few more minutes to put towards modeling, so I
updated a little bit. I sorted out all the problems with my mesh,
bad polygon flow etc. and I continued the ridge of the hood down the
side.

Hopefully I will soon be able to actuall get some more time to model.

Latest render. Still needs ton's of work on that new part, I know.

I know it disappears on the left side, but it's just because of a problem I'm experiencing with Max.

Good luck with the model, looks ok at this point !

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Thanks. It's going really slowly, since I coulnd't really find a
good tutorial to set me in the right direction, so I'm basically self
teaching myself the program while trying to model a car

I'm just going to try and make every part as best I can. I'm on a
forum right now edicated entirely to modeling cars, and I've been
getting a lot of pointers from them. Hopefull it'll turn out okay.

On the plus side, it's a good way to learn a lot and develop your own techniques.

unfortunatly ... its also how you gain bad habits, each to his own
though because you can definitly tune out your bad habits later.
Tutorials tend to speed things up a bit but they can restrict what you
learn , * as a random kung fu guy in a fighting game would say* Try to
keep a balance between the yin and yang of Order and chaos ;p

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www.arclan.net

Indeed. I've listed the way I've modeled a bit in answer to
questions over at the car forums, and they've helped straighten me
out. I think I'm on the right track for the most part.

The forums are Scratch Made Cars if you're interestd.

Little update. Going slowly. Still lot's of minor tweaks to be done.

Its dissapearing on the left probably because faces on models are only viewed on 1 side usually... but anyway, looking good.

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

Yeah, I'm modeling with planes, so they're normally one sided.
There is a way to get them 2-sided, but I can't find it. I've
asked on the forums, awaiting reply.

you can set a back side in the material or in the plane menu (not sure
where) but as far as I know it only draws a plane, you still cant
select the back of the plane.

Mayhap the material editor, thanks Glass. I'll check it out and see what I can find.

Right click the object, go to properties and deselect "backface cull".

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"Azelito, stop being a f**king bitch. All I see you do is complain and insult people in your recent posts. We don't care, go find a razor you emo pansy..." -Windows98

Thanks a ton there azelito, works like a charm :smile:

Same as in G-max,

And im using the same technique you are using, though im going for the small detaisl at the end.

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RUST Gamedesign
pepper design

The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

Bleah.

I can't get paint to look right, I'll be needing to speak to some fellows about the problem.

Well, I'm totally wiped, so with my last efforts I threw together
almost the rest of the bumper. There's still a little bit of crap
at the bottom, but for the most part the front end is finally starting
to come together. Next I'm going to do the doors, finish up the
basic body, and then add headlights, grill, wheels etc.



Bleah, I'm going to bed.

http://cdg.csnation.net/viewtopic.php?t=9797 - tut

There are some others at polycount or CGsociety but I cant remember really. Have a look if you can be arsed.

http://www.polycount.com - http://www.cgsociety.org/

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"Azelito, stop being a f**king bitch. All I see you do is complain and insult people in your recent posts. We don't care, go find a razor you emo pansy..." -Windows98

Humph, that first link would be useful, but unfortunately I don't have
brazil renderer. I'm using default scanline right now, probably
use mental or vray when I want to make it look good.

Looks cool. :smile: Your first model, French Toast? Looks better than my first models. :smile:

It's actually my third model. I made two tables before this :smile:

Try messing a bit with the specular and gloss in the materials window.

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RUST Gamedesign
pepper design

The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

I'd just apply a solid colour then use specular effects etc like pepper said.

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

These two tuts might help, haven't read the second one, but the first one is nice:

http://www.3dkingdom.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=416&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

http://www.3dkingdom.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=541&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Hope they help! :smile:

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What the Snarkpitters listen to!

Thanks OtZman, those are going to be quite useful :smile:

I played arounda bit with the paint, but I think I'm just going to do
clay renders until I get most of the modeling done. It is, after
all, more important :smile:



Little bit of work, I've been out of the house a lot lately.

School starts soon :sad: I'm going to get lost in my school, it's huge!

Looking good, BUT GET IT DONE BOY!

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

Indeed. Since I'm sort of winging this whole project, it's taking
an incredibly painfully long time. I know guys who can model most
of the body ina day. Makes me feel inadiquate :sad:

Dude. Don't get bothered with people who are good, they're all 30+
years anyway. You got the time to learn, we are the winning generation.

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"Azelito, stop being a f**king bitch. All I see you do is complain and insult people in your recent posts. We don't care, go find a razor you emo pansy..." -Windows98

Amen to that.

Maby its the lightning, or maby its the model itself but near the bumper on the side it looks dented.

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RUST Gamedesign
pepper design

The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

It is actually. From all the reference pictures I have, I can't
figure out how the bumper works below that (it's not a popular place to
photograph) so I don't know what the hell happens down there. I
decided to leave that place alone then, instead of spending a lot of
time tinkering with it when I could do other stuff (doors). It
will be addressed, hopefully soon, but I can't find any good ref. pics
to show me what happens :sad:

I've started modeling the back part. Nothing really worth showing, but it's more and more starting to look like a car :smile:

Take that bitch.

Anyways. Something weird happened to my headlights, don't know
how, but they're very jagged. I rendered this before I noticed
though and decided not to go and correct it.

Well, after a whole plethora of problems and annoyances, here's what I cam up with.

Ugh, I hate this model...

Yea, car modeling does get a bit tedious. Nice work none the less.

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"Azelito, stop being a f**king bitch. All I see you do is complain and insult people in your recent posts. We don't care, go find a razor you emo pansy..." -Windows98