[Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8 [WIP]

[Surround]

Hi all!

Im modelling the fuchs 1A8. At the moment Im still blocking the shape. These wips are very very rough so dont mind the details.

But I need your opinions about the shape. Am I getting it right? Are tires too small?

I want to get the basics right, so I dont have to fix them later

My workflow: Block the shape, hi-poly and then low-poly. For low-poly unwrapping and after baking texturing


p.s whoopsie, accidentally made this thread in arma section. Can it be moved to bf section


*** week later***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... ysRUJwNMe4

[Hauteclocque]

Thread moved.

[Amok@ndy]

awesome

really waited for this, i guess Leusch sent you the refpack i made ?

its a lil bit small but for props it should be fine: http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprint ... /fuchs.JPG

[Daniel]

xD Aaaawesome!!! Perfect, that high TOW, u can sneak above hills with that...

[Surround]

@amokandy: Yep I really kept him waiting. He asked about 5 months ago. I started then, but soon I had to focus on making this huge 3d animation (which btw was boring as hell and paid very badly).

Now I?m free as a bird and can concentrate on fun things

[kerrermanisNL]

Somehow this allerady looks awesome?

[Adriaan]

Looks like you're making the high poly in a sculpting program? That's interesting, you don't see a lot of typical hard-surface stuff like weapons and vehicles done using those.

[J.F.Leusch69]

for the size and shape, these might help you, even though they are not 1A8s:

http://www.smcars.net/forums/attachment ... s_1979.jpg
http://i51.tinypic.com/9sqk4k.jpg

[Surround]

I was little bit busy last week. I had this vj gig.

But today I made some progress.

p.s Probably spent 4 hours in just blocking the basic shape, especially the front door area. Very tricky

[Tim270]

Are you modeling max? If so I fully applaud your efforts for a high poly. One thing to watch for though is edge with/size as already it looks like a few of them are very tight and simply will get lost in the bake.

[Surround]

Yeah, i know already that im not going to use all the parts i have modeled. But making low poly on top of hipoly is much easier for so big model.

Anyways, it?s still good practice, and thats what i really need moar

[seb120]

Looking nice, loosening up you edges will allow the edge to catch more light when you bake your normal map. a good test to see if they're too thin is to zoom out from your model and see when the edges start aliasing
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1725586/crits/edgewidthmodel.jpg

Edit: Also applies http://wiki.polycount.com/NormalMap?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=normal_slopes_hatred.jpg

[Surround]

I try to keep that in mind Though Im still making it too detailed.

[Amok@ndy]

im really looking forward to the final result nice work surround

[Surround]

This is how I roll

[J.F.Leusch69]

nice nice nice

[AquaticPenguin]

Some really nice modelling there. Fantastic attention to detail!

[Surround]

More modeling

[BloodyDeed]

Thats simply great. This will look so sexy ingame

[AFsoccer]

That's really impressive Surround! Nice job.