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Vehicle/Prop Panels/Panel Lines
I'm curious about peoples methods for creating panels or panel lines on their high poly models. I'm thinking things where the panels are going to tend toward the decorative like sci-fi vehicles and props. There just seem to be so many options I wonder what other folks do/use. Extrusions? do you extrude the panel, or do a… -
Re: Vehicle/Prop Panels/Panel Lines
Some people get a mesh and then cut the lines on it and remove the faces and then put the mesh onto another mesh with no cuts in it. thats what I do. or I cut out the shapes and then extrude or extrude and then smoothen. -
Re: Vehicle/Prop Panels/Panel Lines
It depends. For cars i'll probably model them since ther e aren't that much. But for something like an aircraft with tons of them I'll doe it 2D in photoshop without a doubt. They end up crisper too if you do them in 2D. I did all of them like this for my UAV: http://www.laurenscorijn.com/portfolio/uav -
Re: Vehicle/Prop Panels/Panel Lines
yeah, I build the entire mesh with edges running down where I want a seam. when Im happy with the entire shape, I first copy the mesh and take each panel piece, extract, extrude a little bit, and then add loops to maintain the shape. this way, when you sub-d, you will have curved edges flowing into a seam (like a car) or…
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