actually might chuck my cars in 3dsmax or Maya to do the texture baking, blenders baking is not that great, though it is functionaland those procedurals bake down well
its a real pain to bake in blender as if you have any metallic on your shader, it either does not bake at all or comes out looking too dark so all the chrome has to be kind of diffuse
been messing with normal map baking in blender and kept gettig weird self intersections, but then relaised that without a cage, the Extrude distance is very important. works fine now. Should have added the bolt to the wheet nut, but could maybe add that in photoshopThe bus signs were redone in Krea AI, very handy tool…
"this is the car I started in 2002, topology is a bit off though" Well imo she still holds up for a 22yo mesh, especially those shut lines (panel gaps) really nice and Blender's rasterizer did a solid job overall, kind of stylized realism.
"I think its time to export one of these to Unity" Your Dad's Cortina looks massive, my older cousin had one back in the 70s when they were all the rage...could pull the birds no probs : ) Interested in the texturing workflow you'll implement for one of the models, if either PBR substances - blender or unity etc, once…
learning a lot about editing normals. After collapsing my bevels and realising that there is a lot of tidying up to do, the shading can easily get messed up blender has a fair few tools to help with that, like smooth vector, reset vector etc you can really fine tune the normals using modifiers and vertex groups to isolate…
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…
@sacboi so its a bit tricky at times, but in involved using weighted normals modifier in blender. Also you can use face normal strength, so where there is a bevel, get rid of the hard edges and set the bevel face strength to weak, the bigger faces to strong. I will dig out the tutorial on you tube, but its a pretty cool…