In past I have modeled few cars and everytime I have ended up with wireframe that I really never was satisfied with. So this time I thought to make things a bit differently. First of all making car in seperate parts, allowing me to use different kind of edge flows and densities. Another thing is that I thought now to post WIP’s here to get some feedback on what to make otherwise in order to ARCHIEVE THOSE GODDAMN WIRES I WANT
So here we go, this is just really fast mockup of the car, but I’d already like to know where to change edge flow in order to get results I am after!
Well diffrent parts are modeled in invidual pieces, allowing easily to make gaps in union points.
Thanks for advice, maybe I’l try that. Usually in other kind of modeling people advice that you should first model base shape and start adding detail later, but guess it goes other way around in such a complex things as cars.
So I pretty much reworked whole front side of the car, back still under work. Here are screenshots, please give feedback on edgeflow / things that need to be fixed!
it does not at all look like some of the parts line up. what i do, for example, to make the doors, is the edge of the front quarter pannel that will end, and then interlock with the door by a matter of about 6mm, i do Shift+Alt and select the edge, then i do Shift+d to duplicate it. move it to where the start of the door will be, then do P>make parent from selection, then i model the door from that one edge, instead of modeling it seperate to the car and trying to line them up.
it seems that this forum doesnt like if u upload same:image to op as in different post… anyway pic is in op and here
edit: I think there is some unintentional vert ripping in section between door and back tire, it can be fixed easily by welding verts… other than that I really tried to make optimal geometry.
you are getting there, i see good progress, now i circled the ares that need work, so try to apply the stuff that you learned from my previous two paint-overs to figure out the “correct” topology for those places.
A note to any other car modelers that want critique on their topology. These are the pictures you should be putting up. 3/4 views and side in good resolution - easy to see the topology and easy to do paint-overs on.
Hey, lightning setup is VERY simple as you said, its just one big plane straight above the car, no other lights for now. Plane is like 3x wider and longer than car and is like 3m above the car
