bit of context for the BMW. Its really hard to make a car shader that sits well in most environments. The main reason I started doing the cars was to fill up the environments i was making, but then the scene can look too busy if you don't handle it right
so yeah it did work ok, the one subd level gives slightly less chunky effect.using weighted average for the edges did nt work too well as each edge has a slightly different weight ie averaged out - have to do it by angle+ making the required lines as hard edged - you get a nice clean panel line that wayAlso I make a vertex…
so I have a good system for the uv mapping, start off with smartuv project in Blender which gives me a reaonable layout for the main body just not sure if I should have all the materials on 1 texture layout or have chrome, paintwork etc each with a diffent uv set and texture? am guessing in Unity you would have a different…
^ Some great tips there "just wondering when you do subd do you try and make the polys mainly square so you don't get too many flow lines which are kind of superfluous ?like here I have a lot of rectangles flowing from front to back, should i try and square them all up, so there is consistency in the mesh ?" Well, only…
look forward to seeing the Tiger revamp,since you are a proper hard surface modeller :) the good thing with uv mapping the bevels is that blender does a reasonable job of it and IMHO Eevee does a great job with car/shiny shaders . There are plenty of procedural approaches for the camo pattern , using 'object 'rather than…
nice looking car/truck, will take a while to model the whole thing I guess? . looks a damn site warmer where you live than here .We previously had a Vauxhall Astra , but it had this weird power drain on acceleration. never found out what the problem was.replaced coil pack, improved it for a bit, then broke again. had to…
It's just a shame that there is no edit poly modifier in blender as you could do the panelling on the subd without collapsing the modifier stack.these cars are all mainly for mid distance viewing, so not going for the high fidelity style this time, but I am going to do a proper sub d car at some point, once I figure out…
Wow thank you very much Mike, really appreciate your insight plus YT info which I'll definitely look into : ) I'm revisiting the Kingtiger tank project linked in my sig, after many a year decaying through obvious inattention....nay to be blunt unadulterated laziness hence the query for an alternate modeling method that may…
"nice looking car/truck, will take a while to model the whole thing I guess?" Indeed! although shouldn't take as long as a Tiger tank I began modeling nearly a decade ago....LOLs and yeah imo does come to think of it have a certain workman-like design functionality. And since Australia is comparatively similar in size…