Yet another F1 WIP

Artwork Works in Progress
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Here’s another newbie F1 WIP… Ring brakes, hubless wheels, turbine powered, and I swear I was working on this three weeks ago!!!
No materials, bad lighting, and several parts are not yet done (the jet-exhaust, brake calipers, misc hoses, nuts and bolts, etc… I tried radiosity, but that is going to take some more tutorial browsing before there is something worth posting.
–EDIT__
Did a bit more on the model, it now has a front and a back, plus a bit more detail in between. I’m now on to the detail-work, brake calipers, radiators, thrust reversers :wink: and other performance enhancing stuff.
Tear it up all!!
http://www.gimpymonkey.org/blender/3_4.jpg
and a side view:
http://www.gimpymonkey.org/blender/side.jpg

And lastly, the noob-much-pleased-with-hisself Yaffed version:
http://www.gimpymonkey.org/blender/yaf.jpg
http://www.gimpymonkey.org/blender/yaf-back.jpg

Cheers, JJ

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looks pretty cool… nice details… i know its still wip, but id love to see spotlights and shadows and a ground for your wip pics =)

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Nice job

Logik_Guy :wink:

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damn, thats nice. i hate all these “new newbies” that are so good at this stuff.

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Update—
I’ve finally had a chance to work on the model a bit, the pics at the top are the updates. Time for detail work, and then to start the materials/texturing process.

When working with Yafray, I ran into a couple of questions. The chain is a path-following object, based on the tank tread tutorial. This works great, except for Yafray export, or for doing radiosity in blender, where the chain reverts back to a single-link. Is there any way around this, or am I gonna have to hand duplicate every link?

Similarly, I make heavy use of subsurfs with the model, and they don’t seem to make it to either yafray or radiosity. I’ve done a basic search here on Elysiun but haven’t seen much. Is there a way to get a blender subsurface to properly render in Yafray/blender’s native radiosity calculator?

Cheers, JJ

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whatever you do, DON’T duplicate every link. That happened to me (go here, see gallery, hearts) and I must tell you it’s a nightmare. Try converting the single parent link to a mesh (alt-c or ctrl-c, forgot which) . Also, enable autosmoothing on the wheels. Great modeling, now let me see you UV texture this baby :wink:

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Thanks for the crits all, I need a bit more modelling touch-up and then it is time to make it look good. I’ve tried converting the parent curve to a mesh, but that didn’t duplicate the links roperly. I’m hoping this can be fixed, as I’d rather not hand dupe each chain segment at 78 links apiece!!

Thanks again, Snooch

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Great car! Need to add good textures and it’ll be almost perfect!