Development Screens (Each post contains a picture OR contributing post)

This is what the headlights will look like.

 

One of the pitfalls of using loopcuts to add small details is that it tends to create a lot of unnecessary polygons. Be sure to tie up/collapse the cuts around the lights and rear wheel wells so your poly density looks more or less consistent. That's a really slick mesh though, great work!

 

Here is a little Nova update, The gauges have been fitted, I didn't model the gauges, They were from a sketchup user
I had to downsize all the gauges one by one and made all the panels around them, Ingore those random lines between the panels, I will fix it. The steering wheel is getting replaced when I decide to model a new one.
Before

After

 

I made this a couple years ago .... damn time passes so fast
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Thanks for the feedback. You are completely right though some areas like the rear bumper really need those extra polys to get the shape right. It's not well optimized and really messy at the moment so I guess I can scrap off some loops.... I'll focus on fixing that before adding more detail.
On a sid note..what technique are you using for adding detail? Loopcuts to merging verts is the only technique I use(and extrude of course)...so I'm interested

That looked pretty good. Why did you stop ?

 

Use the Cut tool. Start the cut on one corner of an adjacent polygon and connect it to where you want to add detail, or round an edge. From there, you can move the newly created vertice around. This saves you from having to clean up the mess from the loopcut.

 

Good advice. I wish though mayas split polygon tool wouldn't suck

I didn't want to reply at first but then this happened.


Perfect examlpe.. As you can see I have deleted the history so there is really no reason for maya to do this.. I am glad maya didn't decide to crash like the other 100 times I used this tool. But when it works properly it's always a good time.

 

As far as I remember , my hard drive died last year or so .
I wish I could get it back

 

Yea I've noticed the same with Maya when I've been using it in college lately, it seems to have huge issues with cuts in general especially when using solid shading.

 

How to fix these fugly backfaces?

 

Ctrl+N or manually flip them with the flip direction button in the normals tab.

 

Headlights are done. Also, the car looks pretty good in blue.


New wheel prototype:

Yes, it's basically a fan. It serves a practical purpose. When the wheel spins, it pulls air out from the brakes, improving brake airflow and cooling. Not sure how efficient it would be in real life, but it looks cool :/
I've pretty much lost every reference to 1980's supercars now. Although I've had a great idea for the dashboard.

Also, it will have a twin-turbocharged, 6 litre V12 because powerrrrr.

 

I quite like the design of your car, but the wheel needs a lot more work, but the mean reason I'm posting is that I think you should inverse that wheel idea of yours. It's a great idea, but it works the other way around . Racecars sometimes have some sort of "hubcap" specifically designed to do this, but they are designed to draw (cold) air *into* the brakes, not suck it out. That also makes more sense from a design perspective, as the "fan" design can't really suck air out, because there's barely any airflow that comes in to replace the hot air(due to the wheelwell)(plus, because the wheel is spinning, the air around the brake disc will also be sort-of spinning, which cancels out most of the fan-effect it). However, if the wheel sucks-in air from the outside, it can push the hot air out through the room in the wheelwell .

That said, if you create slots in the bumper, you can create the airflow and use your initial idea of pushing the hot air out with the fan, I think... Not sure if it would be as effective as the racecar thing. My simple, slow BMW E36 has airslots in the front bumper with a channel running through to the wheelwell to cool the front brakes.
Here's a pic of the racing wheels. I can't really find what they're actually called, and they're pretty ugly, but I'm sure you can come up with something that works like this, but isn't ugly I think this is more effective than having the fan pull hot air out of the wheel due to the spinning air canceling out the fan effect...

 

The wheel is a concept. I thought it should be the other way around but I was already doing it like that and oh well, it'll work. I just came up with a much better idea from that racecar wheel, should look pretty good too.
The bumper does have air slots, the small bits to the sides of the black, er, thing are for the brakes. And the side slots are for the rear brakes. It will have window intakes for the intercoolers, radiator will be on the front I guess.

 

Maybe a lil' something.

(imported from here)

 

That beautiful tread, I'm not very experienced with tires, Are they mud, Sand or Gravel tires?

 

Pitbull Rocker tires, made for rock crawling.

 

how do you place cars like that? I know with 800+ posts I should know but I don't! :/