Vehicle modelling techniques?

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  Eric Chadwick admin

  Nov 2019

  Look closely at existing game models. Find a model ripper, and extract the models into your 3d modeling program. Plenty of mod communities out there. 

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  sacboi high dynamic range

  Nov 2019

  Hi There:

  Great topic by the way. I've had a particular passion for low vert/poly, pixal and hand painted art for ages...it's how I started out like many of us here, in regard to realtime dev. So as a weapons/vehicle specialist I might be able too offer snippets of advice plus hopefully provide a few insights in terms of optimised modeling techniques gained from personal experience.

  Firstly, there's really no rule of thumb how one would go about modelling hard surface assets, though budget constraints must always be taken into account in so far as mitigating a fun in-game player experience through efficient use of processing resources which in turn influence performance gains as well. 

  Now at a glance your cage mesh is slightly askew with misplaced ngons/tri's and dense horizontal edges which when rendered will produce some visual artefacting but more importantly soften those area's of the vehicle's silhouette that should be hard, anyhow are basically fairly straightforward too rework. Ok then, a quick glance over the following wireframe images I've screencaped from a selection of linked tutorials I'd attached to this post, we can see various game rez topology designs people had generated whereby the key aspect to note here is that despite a faceted aesthetic they all have a recognisable shape of a car and that's crucial if you want sustained player traction for your game....'it's gotta look the biz'ness'.

  Anyway browse the tutes, there's a ton of info too unpack and although pertain to another DCC package, however the underlying modeling fundamentals/principals remain the same across the board, regardless of software choice, the only difference is functionality and feature set.

  Lastly, prototype your work because as a 3D artist, it's best practice too always validate pior to an in-game asset commit so a device Emulator is a must have. For example, Android Studio:

   https://developer.android.com/studio/

  EDIT:

  Feel free to PM me or reply if you've further questions, more than happy to help-out where I can.

  Cheers. 

  WIREFRAMES

  

  

  

  

  UV MAPPING TEXTURING

  

  LOW POLY CAR WORKFLOW

  Low Poly Vehicles | Easy Beginner | Blender 2.8 Tutorial

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkg7Ol2jEjs

  https://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-a-low-poly-camaro-in-blender-part-1--cms-21730

  https://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-a-low-poly-camaro-in-blender-part-2--cms-21749

  LOW POLY PLANE SET WORKFLOW

  

  

  

  

  

  

  https://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/creating-low-poly-airplane-set-for-games-part-1--cms-26938
  

  https://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/creating-low-poly-airplane-set-for-games-part-2--cms-26940
  

  
  

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  Amank679 polycounter lvl 5

  Nov 2019

  sacboi said:

  Hi There:

  Great topic by the way. I've had a particular passion for low vert/poly, pixal and hand painted art for ages...it's how I started out like many of us here, in regard to realtime dev. So as a weapons/vehicle specialist I might be able too offer snippets of advice plus hopefully provide a few insights in terms of optimised modeling techniques gained from personal experience.

  Firstly, there's really no rule of thumb how one would go about modelling hard surface assets, though budget constraints must always be taken into account in so far as mitigating a fun in-game player experience through efficient use of processing resources which in turn influence performance gains as well. 

  Now at a glance your cage mesh is slightly askew with misplaced ngons/tri's and dense horizontal edges which when rendered will produce some visual artefacting but more importantly soften those area's of the vehicle's silhouette that should be hard, anyhow are basically fairly straightforward too rework. Ok then, a quick glance over the following wireframe images I've screencaped from a selection of linked tutorials I'd attached to this post, we can see various game rez topology designs people had generated whereby the key aspect to note here is that despite a faceted aesthetic they all have a recognisable shape of a car and that's crucial if you want sustained player traction for your game....'it's gotta look the biz'ness'.

  Anyway browse the tutes, there's a ton of info too unpack and although pertain to another DCC package, however the underlying modeling fundamentals/principals remain the same across the board, regardless of software choice, the only difference is functionality and feature set.

  Lastly, prototype your work because as a 3D artist, it's best practice too always validate pior to an in-game asset commit so a device Emulator is a must have. For example, Android Studio:

   https://developer.android.com/studio/

  EDIT:

  Feel free to PM me or reply if you've further questions, more than happy to help-out where I can.

  Cheers. 

  WIREFRAMES

  

  

  

  

  UV MAPPING TEXTURING

  

  LOW POLY CAR WORKFLOW

  Low Poly Vehicles | Easy Beginner | Blender 2.8 Tutorial

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkg7Ol2jEjs

  https://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-a-low-poly-camaro-in-blender-part-1--cms-21730

  https://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-a-low-poly-camaro-in-blender-part-2--cms-21749

  LOW POLY PLANE SET WORKFLOW

  

  

  

  

  

  

  https://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/creating-low-poly-airplane-set-for-games-part-1--cms-26938
  

  https://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/creating-low-poly-airplane-set-for-games-part-2--cms-26940
  

  
  

  Thanks so much for the detailed reply! I'll look through all this and get back to you!
  

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