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Looking for a tire tutorial
I hope i'm posting this in the right section. I'm looking for a tutorial on modeling a tractor tire in 3D but in a way that could be used for gaming. There's some awesome tire tutorials out there, but they're pretty high, and don't really go into a good way to texture them or anything like that. A whole tractor tutorial… -
Re: Looking for a tire tutorial
the simple answer is basically follow that tutorial you linked gannonroader and then create a low poly (can pretty much be a cylinder with rounded edges) and bake the high down to the low. Check out poopinmymouth.com for baking a normal map workflow which will explain everything you need to know. Just make sure you model… -
Re: Looking for a tire tutorial
Well I don't know about tutorials but generally I want to say it is one of those things that is based on texture and mapping to get the effect, especially if you want it to be used in a game, so texture would be an important thing here So just getting the basic shape of the tire would be most of the modeling you would be… -
Re: Looking for a tire tutorial
Mostly the way I have seen it done, and done it myself is to model a flat piece of the tread duplicate it a bunch of times and then use a curve deformer to curl it into a tire. Here is a link to the technique, scroll down to tire. http://www.suurland.com/tutorials_newbeetle.php -
Re: Looking for a tire tutorial
Yeah should work fine our vehicle artist just made monster truck tires like that for our game all fully 3d. -
Re: Looking for a tire tutorial
Do nice big treads, then bend it? What about that didn't work for you? -
Re: Looking for a tire tutorial
oh I know how to bake normal maps and stuff, and I know how to do the flat piece and deform it to a circle etc, but with a tractor they have those nice big treads coming off. -
Re: Looking for a tire tutorial
Might need to adjust the placement of the pivot point if it bends incorrectly. I've had trouble getting the right size of tire so I normally create a path the size of my tire then Path Deform a instance of the flat thread around the path. Then I can scale the original flat thread to make the two ends meet perfectly. Those…
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