ATTN: Xoliul

Tom Ellis · Jan 2010

Just wanted to say a big thanks for the video over on cg.tutsplus.com, really awesome to get an insight into your vehicle modelling.

Are you going over the whole process? Notably the unwrap/bake? I'm curious to how you bake the vehicles you produce so would be good to see that!

For those who haven't seen it yet:

http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/3d-art/creating-a-next-gen-video-game-hot-rod-the-complete-workflow-day-1/

[HP] · Jan 2010

Xoliul

Thanks man!

sampson · Jan 2010

o shieet he made a tutorial - thanks for the link

Xoliul · Jan 2010

Oh wow, a special topic about this even

I just posted it in the WIP thread, but this is better.
To answer your question: yes, everything will be covered. The baking is a really long process for me, but it's all on tape! I'm trying to make this an advanced tutorial, so not too much low level stuff that can be found in dozens of other tutorials (hence why i talk about reference and folder structure). Baking and unwrap will get their fair share of video's, I'm thinking maybe 4 to 6 "days"/parts worth of video even.

And thanks guys, I like creating these video's to teach people

danshewan · Jan 2010

Very kind of you to share your workflow, Xol - I hope they're paying you for each individual video!

glynnsmith · Jan 2010

Nice one Laurens.

Loved the final thing and the sample vids look ace

brandoom · Jan 2010

Great video, just watched it. How long did that block out take?

Thank for making this

Xoliul · Jan 2010

Dan, i'm not complaining about that

brandoom: 200% speedup, so it was an hour. I'm not always gonna speed it up by 200%, but i figured people should look for other tuts first if the video is too fast to follow.

Incubus · Jan 2010

Cool , Thnx a lot for taking the effort for making this video .

Xoliul · Feb 2010

Part 2 has arrived:
http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/3d-art/creating-a-next-gen-video-game-hot-rod-the-complete-workflow-day-2/

Rhinokey · Feb 2010

xo, watchin now,, awesome vid so far,, for future ref,, pressing J gets rid of those white selection brackets, keep your vis from having unneeded clutter, i never use those brackets,

Xoliul · Feb 2010

Ah, you mean those "bounding-box corners" ? I find them usefull, otherwise there's no way to tell what or if you have something selected in shaded (non wireframe view). 3DS Clean turned them off but I immediatly switched it back on.

brandoom · Feb 2010

Quite enjoyable to watch while drinking my morning coffee. lol, thanks again

jakelear · Feb 2010

Awesome tutorial man. I skimmed it and I'm adding it to my backlog (curse you eat3d and gnomon.) Also wanted to give a big thanks for your viewport shader, I

it.

roosterMAP · Feb 2010

thx for the tut. very helpfull.

Nysuatro · Feb 2010

Still impressing. Now a tutorial about how to make good shaders

Xoliul · Feb 2010

I'll use this topic for the next headsup:

http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/3d-art/creating-a-next-gen-video-game-hot-rod-the-complete-workflow-day-3/

Took a while but it's here finally, the third part.

btw maybe a moderator could change the title to something a bit more clear as to what the topic is about ?

bbob · Feb 2010

Hey hey, mad props for doing this series, the occasional yawn in the narrative aside.. hehe

I sit here wishing I had these before I started learning SubD modelling, though. Very to the point, nice work.

Xoliul · Feb 2010

Haha thanks man! yeah those yawns, it was really bad that day, I don't know why that kept happening lol.

Tom Ellis · Apr 2010

Hai Laurens, I wud rly apreci8 it if yu wud show a vidE0 in realtym showing the enTYre unrapping proseedjur of da enjin plz kthx...

lol not really, but you're brave sticking that little bit of narrative on the end.

Just managed to catch up with some of this tut and it's so incredibly awesome, much appreciated man thanks.

Just a quick question though, and I know this'll be answered when I've watched all the vids, but do you cover smoothing groups and the necessary considerations related to them when unwrapping? This is one area I have a hard time with hard surface stuff and seeing how you tackle it would be a big help.

As I said, I'm yet to see all the vids so apologies if you do cover it!

Xoliul · Apr 2010

Hey thanks man. Yeah I really felt like showing all the unwrapping would be a bit too much. I was thinking I might do it while i recorded the first voiceover (i say something about not wanting to omit anything), but by the end I thought meh, it'll be really boring.

And regarding the smoothing groups: I do mention it yes, in the lowpoly modeling parts (previous 2 I think), there's a few times i mention it explicitly. Once we get to baking (next up) I'll mention it too, probably even have to adjust them a bit as I never get them all 100% right straight away.

Oh and again, if an admin would rename this topic to something like Xoliul's hot rod tutorial, that would be nice