Whats your method for panelling Shawn? Bevel extrude or something more intricate.

Lots of tesselation and extruding of faces.  The detail paneling are three procedural textures used as a diffuse, highlight, and bump map.

ShawnDriscoll: Nice progress with your Azhanti High Lightning ship. Will you be texturing this model?

I'm not sure yet.  I might just throw greebles on it for added texture.

**Becco_UK,

**I ended up shrinking the scale of my procedural plate texture and that gave the ship some better texture.  I used the diffuse texture as a bump also.  See my gallery for the latest render in modo.

looking good Shawn

This dude here is an element in a larger render There is a lot to do yet just showing off that he is rigged and ready to go.

Quote - this is what I've been modeling. Fairly recognizable, isn't it?

Is the body all one mesh?  Or separate parts?

It's mostly one mesh. (Also no underbody, since I don't know what's going on there. I suppose somebody could hack the model apart and add stuff after I'm done with it, if that kind of detail is needed.) Doors are separate parts though. Side door will be last thing afaik, since it's the one thing that's notably asymetric on the vehicle. If you look under Wings3D/WIP in the galleries, you'll see some of the wireframe too.

Quote - A 2005 version Dalek gets underway.

Want!

The Dalek model now has its own WIP thread in the Renderosity/Cinema4D thread: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2792429

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Cool dalek, blaster, and spaceship guys. :)

Anyhow, if anyone liked that van, there's a more up-to-date WIP in the gallery.

I have finished an image featuring the Action FigMea.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2014818

Z

I'm making this on Maya and I hope I can make it compatible with dazstudio :)

Anyways I have a few renders in mind based on known space by Larry Niven this is my belter girl. She lives in low to zero gravity most of her life so her proprotions are different long and lithe. Still working out shaders and then will rig and set up a series of morph targets will go over a few more times to clean up any geometry I need to. She has a helmet too.

Thats interesting - how do you align the bonnet and?

Hi there AirFlames.
I first constuct a complete body shell with the bonnet, door and any other appertures in the mesh.
Then cut them out, thicken and delete the underside. After which I bevel/chamfer  the edges.
Hope that helps?
Z

Thats what I guessed - cause I couldn't see them.........

I left them out, so's not to give the game away too early.
But I would be suprised if someone recognises the machine.

I can't really tell... looks like an XK120 in the back and a Testa Rossa in the front. Did the TR ever have a hard top?

Hi there CaptainJack.
Your along the right lines.
It's British.
Z

looks a bit like either a Morgan or some sort of TVR

Getting Closer...........

Jag - like the one Inspector Morse drives (bonus points if you know his first name without googling it)

Nope.
Getting closer still........
 

'Kay... The grill doesn't look right for an Aston-Martin, and I don't know enough about the Austin and variants, but... how 'bout a Lotus Elite?

M.G?

Sunbeam, MG, Aston Martin, or one of those lesser known brands like Panther or such?

I've done the tire modeling before, but be careful doing it that way. It's funny just how high that polygon count can go. I've heard some folks say that normal maps are the way to go with making treads, provided the tools are there to do it.

Looks great though. And yeah, the "top down" way is easier for making most vehicles than the "bottom up" way when doing polygon modeling.

Okay.
I'll give you a clue.
It's a city name.

So it would be -

"Something" Cars Ltd

Paul-just trying out the possabilities of modelling tread and to see if I could do it.
The smoothing seems to be okay at the moment and not noticeably slowing anything down.

Z