1999 Acura TL

Davett29

Hey all, I recently started working on my personal projects for fun again. Lately I have been too busy doing 3d environments at work so by the time I get home Im 3d out. But anyways, I made my car in 3d. I hand painted all the textures besides the back tail lights. Let me know what you all think...













By the way I didn't texture the interior yet. I just finished up the exterior. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

Davett29

Here is a pic of my car. I didn't like my green so I painted it black. Also, I changed my aero kit alittle bit to match the OEM factory kit that comes with the car. I didn't do the engine bay yet either.

Keg

One thing I see that bugs me is the lack of any reflection. Car's are normally not matte painted.

Davett29

Your right about that. Since I textured it instead of making a material, is there away to get around it? I put the reflection at 2% because it looked kind of weird when I raised it up any higher.

Eric Williams

You might try an enviromental map for the car to reflect then raise it up again see how it looks.

If that's not the problem, maybe try a fresnel effect with raising the reflection.

Nice car btw, model and real both.

edit - I don't think there's any way of getting around using a material unless you paint or bake the reflection into the car, but then the problem is it can't be mobile in a game engine cause the stationary reflections wouldn't make sense.

pliang

Environment map's usually the way to go..of course there's distortions to look out for..also try not paint in too much reflection on the body if you are considering it.

Slum

I've never really messed with car paint shaders, but you could try a normal cubemap with a specular mask and maybe a falloff/fresnel too.

Millah

Dave. First, it looks like you've got a good start here with your Acura. Congrats. I'm inspired by the fact that you're able to come home from a hard day's work and still have the passion and drive to be creative in the evenings.

Now for the critique...
What's the purpose of the piece? Are you modeling it to be as high rez as possible or for real time? I ask this because it's hard to critique the geometry without knowing the answer to that question.

Shader/Texture Critique:
Speaking from how I create vehicles at work, I can say that operable vehicles in current generation games no longer make use of painted diffuse highlights on the car paint portions of the car. Here's how you could improve what you have to be more in-line with how things are done these days (at least in my experience):

1. The car paint, trim, and metallic portions of the vehicle should all be completely shader driven with the exception of any decals or grime that you put on the car.
2. The interior, lights, underside, engine, etc. can be painted diffuse.

Do the above, and hopefully you'll find that you've got an even better looking vehicle.

Regards,
Justin

Joao Sapiro

i like the style try adding an outline to it and it would fit crackdown perfectly, i like the way you painted the difuse, feels so clean, but yeah i agree with Millah.

Davett29

Thanks for the feedback guys. For this car I wanted to paint the whole car for practice. I wanted to fake the reflecttions and the high and low lights. I am also doing this car in high poly to do the material shaders. Im having trouble with the bumper pinching at the moment. I will take the suggestion given and apply it to the high poly model.

Davett29

Here is the mesh of the high poly model so far. Im slowly but surely working on this car. I have alittle pinching at the front bumper and am having a problem fixing it. Any suggestions about edge loops? Thanks!







For this model I will mess around with shaders for the paint textures.

pliang

Wires please...

Davett29

[ QUOTE ]
Wires please...

[/ QUOTE ]

That would be a good idea ha... Im retarded.

pliang

Addressing your concern with poly pinching earlier...if you're using max you can prolly play with turbo smooth and even the edges out or in Maya the soft edge settings...seemed to work with my cars back then...

Other time when that issue has otherwise, it was because I forgot to weld the verts.

Try it out.

Davett29

Here is a quick update on the mesh. Been working on and off.

Davett29

Ok, it's been awhile since I updated with pics. Here is the final car.