Car Project - WIP 2 + workflow tip

Thought i'd post some recent pics:

(Exterior mesh complete):













Rimm/Tyres:














For the tyre/tread I looked at this tutorial rather than the plane/extrude trick we were shown in class. Actually this technique is probably overkill for most situations. Combined, the tread, beveled and segmented I think ended up with more geometry than the rest of the car mesh put together. I've had to create a seperate layer for the tyres in the viewport cause it's really started to bog down. In the render below I forgot to disable the mental ray subdiv approximation on the tyre tread itself which is why it looks a bit soft. I may actually keep it that way.. but it's missing the displacement text i'm planning on putting around the outer tyre wall.

Test render (thanks to Thierry for the pointers:)























Basically this project could go on forever but I think I'll give it another 2 weeks or so and move on to the next thing. Hopefully by then i'll have modelled the interior and attempted some kind of compo.

Also would like to point out something i've been doing for a while in maya regarding the move setting which some of you may not know about. You're probably aware of the move local/world/normal axis options from the attribute editor. Well, just a shortcut you can also access these settings by holding the W key and left clicking in the viewport. This is especially useful if you dont have maya's attribute editor set up as a pop up dialogue box. (having to double click the translate tool, then scroll to the attribute editor, find setting, select setting etc is a really annoying). All about the shortcuts.

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