RC buggy (livestreaming)

Racer445

i am modeling an RC buggy over the next couple days and am using justin.tv to livestream the creation of it. feel free to jump in the chat and talk to me.

http://www.justin.tv/racer445

the buggy will be based on the Associated RC8B series and will have full (but simplified) internals.

Shiv

Awesome, will be watching
Just hope the internet here can keep up

Skillmister

In.

Sync

I'm watching.

ENODMI

Right on, cant sit down and watch now, hopefully I can catch a session later...

Racer445

tonight's progress

myles

Pretty fugly man!
Are the videos saved so we can watch them later?

Lonewolf

good start!

Skillmister

Tasty modelling

[HP]

Very nice modeling. Is this HP modeling only, or do you plan on baking these?

myles wrote: »

Pretty fugly man!
Are the videos saved so we can watch them later?

http://www.justin.tv/racer445/b/293251404

skylebones

I'm huge into RC racing. Love it! Very detailed and accurate work.

Racer445

i had a long post written then i closed the tab by accident.

HP: this is the xoliulshader 2 example asset and will be baked down to a low poly.

i am live again now. i am hoping to complete the interior of the model today including the engine, and start on the rear assembly so i can finish the high poly tomorrow.

http://www.justin.tv/racer445

maze

you are really motivated man, cool.

ZacD

He's still working

Racer445

this is probably enough for tonight. i'll try and finish it off tomorrow.

Lonewolf

very good progress

youre pretty fast

good job

skylebones

That looks amazing! And accurate too. I do have two minor suggestions. The fuel tubing is super thin, they should be a bit thicker. Also, the servos, servo horns and reciever box is very vertically thin. Everything should be about twice as tall.

I took some images to explain things better, hope it helps. And sorry for the blurriness.






Awesome progress! Can't wait to see some more.

[edit]

Here is a better image to show how tall the servos are.

Skillmister

Are you a robot? Super fast and clean modelling. How did you do the welds?

SimonT

looks really nice!

Racer445

live again! i finished the body last night as well as modified the servo and fuel lines. i am looking to complete the high poly today.

http://www.justin.tv/racer445

skillmister: it's a line of little smooth discs that have been bent into shape, then has two noise modifiers added: one for big warpiness and one smaller scale one.

haiddasalami

Hey Racer, been following this at work and thanks for saving the videos Quick question, do you use shortcuts often? Just something I noticed. Looking forward to the other videos.

Racer445

high poly complete in 3 eight-hour days.

Lonewolf

for a 3 days u did a crazy job

what now? texturing or you making low poly too?

Skillmister

Very very nice. Will be going back and watching the saved vids once im at uni and have better than 2mb internet -.-

sneakymcfox

Really really nice, the videos are quite a help as well

Racer445

just an update: the low polied, uved version of this is sitting on my desktop at home, but we haven't had power for 2 days due to irene. the low is absurdly detailed and sits around 17k tris. it's just a shader demo.

cman2k

I wanna lick it. Unbelievable work for 3 days man, you are a beast!

Pedro Amorim

Irene... what a bitch!

ae.

would love to know how your making those renders?

Racer445

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1725586/RC/polycount_car_dontstealplz.rar

here's the high poly and the render scene for anyone who wants to dissect it. use any part you want from it from any purpose, just don't steal as a whole. regardless, this will probably be on the portfolios of chinese/russian/indian "outsourcers" and on model marketplaces shortly after i post this.

btw i have power back now

EiGHT

You are a beast man.Please,another.Another!

snow

you always make me laugh racer, i am disappointed with your more appropriate/sensible tutorials of late.

FIXYOWEBSITE

XenoKratios

Are you using a ruler to measure out anything or just by eye?

Looks wicked btw big guy!

Xoliul

Damn, Racer, I' m really curious about that low

Racer445

snow: i'll plug in a microphone for the texturing stream.

xenokratios: i used a top-down reference plane underneath for the basic proportions and eyeballed the rest.

xoliul: WELL HERE YOU GO SIR



i need to alpha the springs and add in the body pins but i'm pretty happy with this so far.

Xoliul

Awesome! Can we see a wireframe? I'm really curious about the big cylinder, it looks like all the cooling ribs are modeled, but I'm not sure.

jeremiah_bigley

Would you be able to give us a time you plan on starting the texture? Would really love to see and I am afraid I am going to miss it.

Edit: I was dissecting your scene (awesome btw) and I was wondering how you are getting that small black stroke on your render... Never seen that before.

Double Edit: Catmull-Rom

Computron

Any way to download the videos for offline viewing? Also, where is Day 2?

Racer445

computron: looks like day 2 and most of day 3 got lost. weird because i set them to record and i swear they were archived...

jeremiah: monday

wire:

AlecMoody

Sick bake. The heat sink (radiator?) came out really well. It really looks like a lot more geometry than it is.

Racer445

edit: the ao bake is giving me hell so i'm going to start streaming tomorrow.

3Dyan

Thanks a lot for uploading the hp!
Really insightful.

Racer445

i am live RIGHT NOW OH GOD WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR CLICK THIS BUTTON BEFORE IT EXPLODES: http://www.justin.tv/racer445

here's the body design right now:

LRoy

awesome! checking it out now.

Skibur

Wow, this is an excellent model and the textures look great so far.

I was just watching your stream. I noticed that on the tail fin/spoiler thing there are two screws/bolts in the middle on the top, but two to each side of the middle on the bottom.



:S

Racer445

yep. thankfully it's not a big deal

progress for tonight:

Xoliul

SHWEETTT !

Racer445

live again, hoping to finish the body wear and plot out the basic chassis materials today

http://www.justin.tv/racer445

Racer445

live again with a not so special guest

http://www.justin.tv/racer445

Xoliul

Cool! How worn/dirty are you gonna do the internals? The green tint on the wheels puts me off a little, is it really that heavy on the ref ?

Racer445

mostly just some basic scuffs and some dirt. the model details and materials should carry it.

pretty decent progress today. i should hopefully have it done in the next couple days.




not at all a bootleg china version of team losi