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[Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8 [WIP]

Posted: 2012-03-01 13:42
by 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 :P

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

Re: [Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8

Posted: 2012-03-01 16:09
by Hauteclocque
Thread moved.

Re: [Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8

Posted: 2012-03-01 16:11
by 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

Re: [Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8

Posted: 2012-03-01 16:12
by Daniel
xD Aaaawesome!!! Perfect, that high TOW, u can sneak above hills with that... :P

Re: [Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8

Posted: 2012-03-01 16:37
by Surround
@amokandy: Yep :D 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 :)

Re: [Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8

Posted: 2012-03-01 18:29
by kerrermanisNL
Somehow this allerady looks awesome? :P

Re: [Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8

Posted: 2012-03-01 18:44
by 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.

Re: [Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8

Posted: 2012-03-01 18:50
by 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

Re: [Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8

Posted: 2012-03-12 23:34
by 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 :P

Re: [Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8

Posted: 2012-03-13 00:53
by 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.

Re: [Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8

Posted: 2012-03-13 01:33
by 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

Re: [Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8

Posted: 2012-03-13 01:40
by 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

Re: [Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8

Posted: 2012-03-13 02:32
by Surround
I try to keep that in mind :) Though Im still making it too detailed.

Re: [Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8

Posted: 2012-03-13 04:38
by Amok@ndy
im really looking forward to the final result :) nice work surround

Re: [Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8

Posted: 2012-03-13 14:01
by Surround
This is how I roll

Re: [Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8

Posted: 2012-03-13 14:36
by J.F.Leusch69
nice nice nice :P

Re: [Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8

Posted: 2012-03-13 16:46
by AquaticPenguin
Some really nice modelling there. Fantastic attention to detail!

Re: [Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8

Posted: 2012-03-14 23:29
by Surround
More modeling

Re: [Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8

Posted: 2012-03-14 23:32
by BloodyDeed
Thats simply great. This will look so sexy ingame :P

Re: [Vehicle] Fuchs 1A8

Posted: 2012-03-15 00:07
by AFsoccer
That's really impressive Surround! Nice job.