Aston Martin DB9

[M@DM@X]

congrats bro, again nice work. i would love to see a wireframe on this. ive done alittle car modeling myself so i might be able to help alittle if you get stuck anywhere.

[Legacy]

Shaping out pretty nice, mate.

[cpthooker]

here is the wireframe

[Bones]

Nice, wonder if this will be for 3d art or for some racing game like NFS ?

[Mark]

nice work

[cpthooker]

Nice, wonder if this will be for 3d art or for some racing game like NFS ?

it will 3d art, don't play any racing games on the pc, just the xbox360

[Legacy]

nice wiring, i take it you're box modelling it, if so, perhaps you should try some subdivision modifier (when i need one, i prefer turbosmooth) and see how it looks.

[cpthooker]

I didn't do it by box modelling i did it by splines

[Legacy]

I didn't do it by box modelling i did it by splines

Better than, increase the interpolation and get rid of the sharp edges, to some slightly smoothed beziers.

[cpthooker]

Yeah I am doing it, just taking my time ;)

[Nighthawk]

watch the curvature on the sides, the lights and the bumper
it will be better if you had both the schematics and a photo or a scale model, so you can see where it's smooth and where the edge is marked

so, once you finish, you can render (or photograph?) something like this

[Legacy]

Or this.  8)

[cpthooker]

update, sorted the smoothing out alot today

[M@DM@X]

nice work there cpthooker. i see in the wireframe you have some 3 sided polys, you really need to make them 4 sided or the reflections when you add a paint material will look strange in them area's. it shouldnt be too much work to fix. great work with the splines tho, i always boxmodel; takes longer but if done correct has the same effect as splines.

[cpthooker]

yeah I am fixing them

[M@DM@X]

glad to hear. just out of interest what rendering engine you going to use? vray? brazil? or mental ray? if its mental ray i might be able to point you in the direction of a good tutorial for render/scene/material setup so you can get a render kinda like these.

[cpthooker]

i have vray, but not thinking about that till the model is done thanks

[Legacy]

i have vray, but not thinking about that till the model is done thanks

Vray rocks.  :arms:

[cpthooker]

I didn't say that it didn't. Just getting the model sorted before thinking about VRAY