Ahoj!
I finally moving to 2.8 and this is my first public project which i would like to share with you…
Idea is create custom trophy truck/buggy + some deeper overlap**?>!**
I would like to try use only FOSS during the production and use Blender as much as possible for all parts of production…
Because I really love working on tires - I’m starting with tires…
Hope you gonna like it!
Ahoj,
I have a small update on tire tread…
I split tread to three layers, which I’ll put together later…
Time for update
I put together all three layer of tread, duplicate and rotate first segment and then i bend tread to right position…
And now finally I’m ready for spin!
And sidebar
I’m here with next small update…
I’m done with base for sidebar…
So… It is time for details etc… Isn’t?
I just create a base mesh for tire with proper dimensions, that would help me better navigate final mesh…
I need to rework sidebar little bit, because I did several mistakes -Lost roughly 5-6 hours of work - goddammit!
Anyway I spend a lot of time researching of TR tech… So i hope tire should be on good way right now…
I finally rework base of sidebar… That was tough, because on my references pictures is different size of tire that I working on.
Anyway I can start with details, but right now I need some recreation and British Motor Museum sounds like a good idea!
lot’s of work and nice model
but at what cost in verts count!
tire will be like 250 Kverts for one tire
time at least 4 so that is gone be like 1 million verts !
may be try to make a UV map out of it should give less verts
nice work anyway
happy bl
Thank You!
Yes a lot of verts…
But not so much - complete tire have right now 140k verts…
This tire is really huge (1m diagonal in real scale) and I need all of this details, because all of this details should be visible and normal maps can not satisfy my expectation for this project:)
There is specific reason for that…
I hope, later on this I´ll create also baked lowpoly-realtime version suitable for sketchfab etc…
Keep watching progress:)
Hope you gonna liked!
the threads seem to be very thick is this some special tire threads ?
happy bl
The truth is tire tread is slightly wider than it should be:)
Part of the side bar will be covered by rim, that also help to make tread “optical” wider.
Reference size of tire is 39X13.50R17
For that propose i created base mesh in correct size
But there should be some small correction after I´ll finish tire and rim
I hate making tires 
but yours are looking fantastic so far.
Do you mind sharing the topology?
Bernhard, Thank You!
Yes, I´ll will share some topo after tire will be done. Right now is everything heavily in progress I need to adjust topo regarding to proper smoothing etc…
update of sidebar,
I´m working on logos… You probably tell my why I don´t use normal map or bump…
I don´t wanna exclude normal maps from this project, but in this case -vehicle should be main point and wheels make a car, and i trust to power of geometry…
I do a several test on older models and i can say, nothing looks better then geometry in 8K+ resolution…
Anyway I can use some form of displacement, but that should be pretty heavy in final render, even with adapt…
I’m almost done with bottom part of sidebar, properly set normals, cleanup topology for better smoothing, adding some new detail…
Yes, maybe I should put little bit more polygons to ‘‘O’’ letter…
Next time I would like to render final geometry…
looking nice with shadows around !
why is there some blur on the closest part on the left ?
how many verts total ?
happy bl
Looking really good 
Thank you…
It is blurry because of DOF, and reason for that is - tread is still not final;) I need set normal orientation… Then i will make a new renders of whole tire…
Side bar have something around 66k verts…
And complete tire should have something around 190k verts…
Thank you!
