Doom3world

I was looking at my map, and I had this strange feeling that I was missing something. And then it hit me. I need a Ford Anglia!



Ok. its ropey I know, but this is a WIP afterall . I'm using Render to Texture in 3dmax to generate the normal map. With out wheels and bumpers, the lowpoly model is 272 tris.

Edit:

Really nice work, pal!

Try ORB for normal map rendering to fix seams, tho!

I tried rendering with some extra geometry along the mirror edge, and the seem is alittle better. I'll try orb and see what it produces.

http://2maniacos.com/images/33500.jpg

Just wait until I've got John Carmack nailed to the bonnet!

Tried rendering the normal map with Orb:



The seem has gone on the bonnet (looks like I wont be needing John Carmack)! The headlamps look alittle better as well. Just a shame the resolution is limited to the screen resolution. With Max I rendered a 2048x2048 map, this one is only 1024x512. Here they are:



First image is from max, the second from orb.

Your lowpoly model need a bit more work, to deal with all those creases.

Although it looks like you could use some polishing o your hipoly model too. Since it got dents on the fenders too.

Lol

Looks like a nice little car though. Isn't it customary to first create the hi-poly version and build a lo-poly version on that?

To make curved/rounded things like window sills and the chrome fittings, I make a low poly approximation, and then use mesh smooth or turbo smooth modifiers. Adding a few choice splits or extra edges can generate things like the wheel arch rims:





Hopefully you can see from the screenies that the "dents" are not dents, but an effect of smoothing produced by subdividing the low poly mesh. So yes, I do need to work on the poly configuration to get better smoothing results from subdividing. Which, as you can see is translated into the normal map.

Ok, here is a comparison of self shadowing versus noselfshadow:



The nasty block of shadow that split the bonnet between the head lamps has gone. I'm going to make the windshield, bonnet, side panels into seperate objects with noselfshadow so I can get those nicer shadows back, and as Kat can testify, that might help with a few smoothing issues.

Found some more time to work on my vehicle. This screen shot shows the older mesh which did not smooth at all well.



I rebuilt the mesh using quads, and I made all the hidden edges lie in the same diretion as far as possible. I've also used the NURMS option and smoothing groups in the command panel instead of Turbo Smooth or Mesh Smooth modifiers.

That is definitely a significant improvement on the mesh!

nice model, very low res?

greetz
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The highres model is no more than 100k.

The low res model is curently at 5k and falling, and it has a 2k local. This model has selfshadows.

nice, it looks 1000 times better, 5k great then you can have 1000ts of this models in
apropos obj overhead,
is it better to combine (merge togehter) objects. how is the engine handle this, has anyone made perfomance test about object overhead?

sorry im a noobie and for my bad english

Getting there! Want to add door handles, badges and grunge to the normal and diffuse map, and work on the interior. Still alot of seems, but I think I can bust most of those. Experimenting with vp shaders to make the glass head lamps.

Added a custom envshot to the car body material, but had to significantly reduce the contrast and brightness of the shots in PS to get a subtler evnironment effect. Darker glass and tax disc/badge in alpha.

Great work!
I wish I could drive that car ingame!

Looks great, nice work on the cube map too, it realy blends in with the world. Would be great if you could drive it too

Very nice car! Is this first your try for a car?

It looks tits dude, keep it up!

Cheers folks! I made a vespa scooter in Maya Nurbs long time ago now, but this is my first car. Surely you can tell from the state of this WIP?.

I'm thinking of taking it for a spin in ETQW. Might need to install some machine guns in the headlamps to ward off those pesky strogg though!