Honda CRX - Tuned Model
 

Right now i am working on a Tuned up Honda CRX - body kits and everything. I have all the curves down for the car, but i still need to bi-rail them together. I Just wanted to get the front done first.. so i am trying to model this Front end.
(The car in the pic is a supra... not a CRX)
I can't seem to get it right.. any ideas of how to do it?
EDIT: The front end of the car in the picture is what i am trying to model - can't seem to model it correctly though.

you should model the supra...its' better :D

-Emo

yeah, I don't get it... if you're modeling a CRX, then why show a pic of a supra? :p

But what is it that you cant get right? The model? The birails? Be more specific and you'll get faster results.

:beer:

I got a start on the front end.. still need to put all the surfaces together.. as you can see. How can i do that? I can get most of them to go together (only when the edges are equal length, but after that, i can't get them to attach together without it going nuts.... Help!
Oh, and another questions: I read somewhere about "making edges hard" so that when you convert, the shape stays the same. How can you do that, and is there a way to do that for when you rebuild a nurbs surfaces? When i rebuild surface, it changes the edges around.. which i don't want.

PS. CRX is better

oh, lol.. stupid me.. I forgot to say, i was having trouble getting the front end modeling. that is a pic of the front end that i am trying to model. If you look above, there is my atempt at it.

Here is a little update.. i had a custom hood done.. but it didn't look right, i will redo it later tonight. Does anyone know where i can get a carbon Fibre shader?
C&C?

Did some work on the side skirt - it has the Z3 fenders. I think i am going to work on the hood now.

here is an update.. Added the doors and side skirts. Anyone know why i am getting that dark part at the front of the door? C&C?

quick front end update

you should take a look at my CRX thread!! I love your front bumper! Mine really sucks, I never finnished it, I was going to make one just like yours, like a wings west bumper. Thanks,
Brian

Wings West rocks...

Just wish I could find mods for my 01' VW Jetta GL 2.0L. :(

wonder if they have anything for my car... 2001 s2000

man, i love the s2k.. i want one so bad. I think that will be my next model.

That IS a cool car man:) (lucky bastard! hehe...)

I love it! I just got it about 3 weeks ago... gotta pay taxes though :banghead: :banghead: kinda sucks... only thing I have added was a stainless steel exaust that i added the day after I bought it :) still... Aftermarket stuff is pretty pricy for it.
Brian

D*mn.
That s2000 Looks good.

sucks though... I moved this past weekend, and when I bought the car I wasn't thinking about the sales tax... now I gotta find some $ for the sales tax... :( oh well still a fun car :cool:

hey, just did a quick test of the tire. I think i am going to have to break the outside tire into a couple pieces, or change the bump map. C&C on this or the car... anything?

i think the tire looks cool! but the side wall definately has a problem on it. Although i can't tell what it is sorry. The bump on the outer surface should be okay, unless you want extreme close ups on the treads. Kurt makes really good tires..........

alright.. here is an update. I kinda did a quick roof, and also put on some mirrors. What do you guys think?
oh, and i added some stuff to the tire, but i still can't get the rubber part of the tires right. Can anyone help me on this? C&C Plz!

another view.. i like this one

Love the rims man. :D Awsome!

i would love to use your bumper! ;) great start, need to see more, b4 i get to heavy in Critique. Later,
Brian,
BTW are you using Blueprints? I used the ones from Surrland, they worked well, althought the resolution on their image is pretty low.

i think i did get them from surrland. The planes really don't even match up... but that doesn't really matter. Now its time to tackle the back end.... This should be interesting.
The front end i am modeling is the blitz front.. gotta love that one.
BTW, this is a design of what my real car will look like when it is finished.. i hope : )

fantastic car !
what kind of tools did you use to model it ??

tools?
well to make this, i used basicly all curves, and the bi-rail tool.

nice work man
 

i am amazed that u r doing all this with NURBS.........wow

i once tried but never to an end........

ne ways.........cool

hope to see this finish soon.....

haseeb

nice looking start you have there and nice to see somebody else using nurbs for a car most seem to be poly ...........mine is nurbs hence no post on it but i getting engouraged with see ing what others are doing one day i'll get there also

one sugestion to get a little better looking finish for renders to show try rendering with MR ;)

good work and keep it up hope to see more soon please :)

here is a little update - I did the front lights - not sure if i like them.. i was just fooling around. what do you guys think?

shot of the lights close up

i think it is a bit too many lights. 2 of them on each side should be enough. this looks a bit like: oh we dont have quality lights? no problem, we compensate with many of them :D

just my opinion though

I agree with babyduck onthis one. Although the lights look fantastic, theres just too many.

alright, sounds good.. take out how many? 1, 2?

I say you should take out the 2nd one in from the outside (the small one), and the inner big one. I think if those were gone, itd look much better. :)

Alright, time for a light update. I was going to go with 3 lights, but since the lights are so wide on the crx, i went with 4. I know there is a little problem with the light going throught eh side of the fender, but i will do that later. what do you guys think?

Lights close up

Did a grill for the car.. what do you guys think? c&c?

Just curious: How did you do the mesh grill in the front? A plane with a mesh image (alpha) plugged into the plane's transparency setting? The car's coming along really nicely.

Mesh? I did it the hard way... Which wasn't the smartest thing. I didn't figure out about alphas untill i already made the mesh. It is poly cubes, at 63 degree angles.. then union of all the polys

i need a chrome texture that works... can anyone help me? i couldn't get the one from a|w to work