car modelling help

Integrating 3D models with photography

Interested in integrating your 3D work with the real world? This might help

Watch

# 1 13-09-2005 , 12:23 PM

Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2005

Posts: 108

Here is my progress on my first car. Any help would be appreciated. Here is it as a polygon:

Attached Thumbnails

Click image for larger version

Name: untitled-1 copy.jpg
Views: 298
Size: 83.3 KB
ID: 23609

www.ace-productions.co.uk

Quote

# 2 13-09-2005 , 12:27 PM

Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2005

Posts: 108

and here after smoothing 4 times. The problem is I dont know whether i shpuld be doing all this smoothing. For one it dramatically slows down my computer, and also I loose certain elements of my picture. Should I smooth like this then break up the car and do sub d's

Attached Thumbnails

Click image for larger version

Name: 5.jpg
Views: 297
Size: 83.0 KB
ID: 23610

www.ace-productions.co.uk

Quote

# 3 13-09-2005 , 12:28 PM

Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2005

Posts: 108

and finally as a render. It still looks very bitty,. how do you rectify this? Should I be rendering it in some other way than just pressing the render current view button?

Attached Thumbnails

Click image for larger version

Name: 4.jpg
Views: 320
Size: 11.2 KB
ID: 23611

www.ace-productions.co.uk

Quote

# 4 13-09-2005 , 12:53 PM

Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2002

Location: New York

Posts: 2,133

Maybe read up on using "poly proxy" for modeling. This will allow you to work on the poly version and have the smoothed one next to it...very helpful for correcting any weirdness as you go along.

"Terminat Bora Diem, Terminal Auctor opus."

Quote

# 5 13-09-2005 , 01:04 PM

Subscriber
Join Date: Feb 2005

Location: Sunny Ol' Wigan, UK

Posts: 752

Can you post a wire model of your car?

If you believe in telekinesis, raise my right hand.

Quote

# 6 13-09-2005 , 05:31 PM

Subscriber
Join Date: Jun 2004

Posts: 274

id probably delete the polys uve got of the iwndows and thebacks of the lights to get a better mesh view, else the smooth function will smooth the windows in with the metal car frame

Edit: turn up ur settings in your render globals to production quality

Quote

Reply to this thread