Thanks for the crits guys, and feedback. Immediate corrections: 1. Topology of hood needs to support reference, going to modify and clean up. 2. Rework Hub holes. BBob, i've never done any weldings via spline/displacement can you clarify or point to where I could find info on this? Thanks for the advice.
It basically looks like that and is useful for doing quick and dirty welds that aren't seen closer than that. You subdivide the crap out of your geo, plug in a stripy map into the displacement modifier, and fiddle with the orientation and stretch of the tile, in this case its flipped to VW and tiled 8 times in the V…
Alright folks, calling this one complete. There are definitely areas I could have improved and it was a challenging study but I learned a lot. Between balancing high and low frequency details, I tried to sell some decent mud but that really ended up blotting up areas of interest. I decided to keep it somewhat clean but…