Polygons/vertices themselves are not a problem, you can have quite bit of them at interior, but that can add a LOT of complexity and work to UV mapping stage as well as add a lot of drawcalls which are murder for the performance. Mostly you want to keep number of materials and textures at minimum, more polygons with less shader use can actually be faster at some cases. UV mapping efficiently and without destroying performance is actually far more difficult than doing the jbeam or modeling, doing UV mapping sloppily is easy, but doing it by using texture atlases and maximizing use of batching etc. is something quite difficult and requires lot of learning by experimenting as it seems to be that there just is not very huge amount of resources in regards of that.
I don't actually mind if it's 3D or not - as the radio is not something you typically look at in Beam, it would be cool if it was, but I don't mind, as the car itself is amazing enough.
I think maybe finish off the car and see what the poly counts look like, or maybe not finish it completely but get a bit further into the project anyway, and then look at maybe making it 3D, I mean just look at the 86 sprinter that's on here, the interior on that is crazily complex
Some interior work done (WITH 3D radio! ) and made the gauges and air vents. Next job is to clean up the doors, add detail and door panels. Steering wheel and pedals will be added later.
Always excited to see 'Ricky added attached a file to this thread' notifications to see what wonderful work you've done now, remarkable how fast you've done all this
Got some more done today. Made the steering wheel, including the remote radio control panels etc. Also detailed the outside and inside of the doors and finished the interior (mostly) and finally made the headlights and corrected the fenders, front bumper and hood to make it better looking. Quite happy with the engine bay as well! (not finished though!). If anybody thinks I post too often, feel free to say so. But as it's my first modelling project ever, I like to share all my progress
After looking at it again and comparing it with pictures of the real one, I agree I made it a little bit smaller and it looks way better.
Wow! Progress is going so fast! I always check my notifications for 'risky attached a post to the thread'
