Renault Clio V6 3dr
 

well after all my previous failed attempts at car modeling i figured id make my fav compact car the renault clio:attn:

ive been literally just messing aroud with extruding beveling and smoothing cubes for practise at the best way to do all the curves and suchand heres what ive got( by the way i know that theres some bumping in the fender area- ill be fixin that in 10 mins or so):

:beer:

Hey there acid,

looking good so far. One thing I would comment on though is that you seem to be bevelling edges before you've blocked out the whole object, this could cause issues later in the modelling process.

If I were you, I'd get the whole car built low poly and then start smoothing out the edges.

Take it easy,

Mat.

so far the bevels havent gotten in the way at all but ill probably be taking away the ones by the front grill t, thanx for the input though ill probably wait till its all done low polly next time:beer:

update: i made the side and started the back:attn:

last update for tonight: worked more on the backk and side/roof... gotta wake up in 5 hours so goodnight for now:zzz:

A very nice start but I would definately block in the whole car and do a test smooth to see what needs to be sharpened up before starting things like beveling and adding detail.
The mesh looks really clean though so don't get too tempted to detail it too soon.

Nice mate!! Didnt steal this off Vice City right?? He he good times. (Inside joke)

hehehe nope its all mine:p

UPDATE MONKEY EATERS!!!!

started the roof(has some bumping still) and started the intake by the door:beer:

lol. This is 10000 times better than your garbage truck by the way :attn:

Hows the ruins one going? You given up have you?

LOuis

Looking impressive! keep going and get it done! ;) this cars RAD...

Yeah i kinda agree with the others bout blocking out the main shape first then beveling/adding detail, but yeah ...

your all just trying to make me feel bad cause im canadian... block it out first... ILL SHOW YOU!!!!!!

anyways... update:ive done quite a bit since the last post... iv made the door 4 times... and made some canges in other areas.. youll see in the pics c&c please:beer:

another wire and smoothed... still need to fix some bumping and work a bit on the door

oh man that car was so beautiful... maya just crashed... i think im gonna vomit...well... time to do that all again:headbang:

ill probably wait til either later or tomorrow before i continue so i can install maya 2008 first:beer:

Stuff like that makes me think about switching to Linux Maya.

why? whats so great about linux maya?

Well, all of the Maya programs are the same, but Linux has a more stable environment than Windows. On the other hand, there arent as many Linux apps as there are Windows apps.
(Less that even Mac.)

Programs crash in Linux too ya know... a bug is always a bug.

you know what was funny about when maya crashed?...i actually threw up about 10 minutes after i posted... i only remember cause it just happened again(and i vomited again), well at least this time the flow is a little better and i saved about half way through...



i have 2 problems though

1. the wireframe display is messed up... it cutting out parts as you can see in the pic

2. when i open certain scenes they wont run propely unless i have the attribute editor opened (the scenes run slow and when i drag select the colours in the work window get screwed up) unless i have the attribute editor open ittl run slower than a 2 million polly scene so i know it isnt my cpu. alsoi have my display at 1280x1024 and when i set it to 1024x768 the problem goes away but i cant work at 1024x768 the workspace is waaaaaaay too small... any help:confused: :headbang:



okay, so, finally an update... however minor it may be...

YOu might have an extra node attached somewhere, have a look in the hypergraph and see if theres something attached to the geo that dosnet seem right, delete it and than have a look.

Ive had a similatr porblem once wuere when I smoothed a mesh it reverted back to smoothing an old version, god knows how I did it but the old mesh was attached as an imput to the newer mesh, once I deleted it in the hypergraph it worked fine.

update:

:beer: Who new canadians could make cars!!!! Good work acid. Will talk to you on msn ;)

i new:p if it werent for us theres no way gm would be as big as it is today

DO YOUR RESEARCH lol:beer:

Wheres an update. Is there a ice age in canada right now or something?

no, no ice age, just really busy:beer:

Take it you sorted your problem out.

I was thinking the other day if your using 2008 have a play with the smooth poly preview and the crease edge tool and the slode edge too adjust areas to get a nice flow.

I'm gonna be giving it a go with a car I'm making in a while.

i havent even looked at the smoothe preview yet thanks for the idea man:beer: and no i didnt sort out the problem but as long as i restart maya ever 1/2 hour or so its fine:headbang:

i pressed 3 by accident trying to switch to wireframe mode and i almost... (insert naughty word here)ed in my pants... why didnt i know of that before?

anyways... UPDATE: not much but took a good hour and a half... i cleaned up the bevels and some other mesh on the door and mirror...:beer:

Thats what I was telling you about!

Also the crease poly edge tool might help you out getting nice sharp edges, oh and the slide edge tool will help you out making the geo nice and even.

Nice mate!!!

Man i want to start a car now but i first gotta hit myself because i gotta finish off some other stuff first...

Just curious, when you finish the car are you going to make the inside?

i said it to you on msn but i want to make it clear if anyone else wants to know:

yes i plan on doing a full interior and other extras on this car im going to be going all the way this time rather than just the body modelling like usual:beer:

Kool!!

Having fun at school are we :p

What class are you in now?

i got efing kicked out of my school... i had to sneak my comp into my room to be able to check whats goin on on sm frickin bullshit

anyways im pretty busy with my gf right now so updates will come fairly slowly:beer:

:headbang:

Whyd you get kicked out of school? Smoking in class ;)

surprisingly no...

they had me in a behavioural class and my teacher was being a bitch (they have a teacher for every 3 students and when i asked for help she ignored me, even when i went to her desk and started yelling she just sat there) si i stopped showing up... the way i see it is i go to school to learn not to be ignored...

Hey! teacher! Leave them kids alone!

lol dude i dont think she's listening and if she listens to a guy in australia instead of a student i swear ill kill her:p

That was lyrics to the song "Another Brick In The Wall" by pink floyd you darn canadian!!!

dude thats something my mom would know not me:p