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Post 1 \| New	Posted April 30th, 2008
Mademan Certified University Drop-out Joined: Feb '03 Posts: 478	\| ^-^ \| Attached JPEG Image: esprit_front_3.jpg (103.36kB)

Post 2 \| New	Posted May 1st, 2008
Mademan Certified University Drop-out Joined: Feb '03 Posts: 478	oh, and here's the back... Attached JPEG Image: esprit_rear_3.jpg (94.14kB)

Post 3 \| New	Posted May 2nd, 2008
Fragdieb2 just öne löuder Joined: Mar '03 Posts: 1,705	Not bad, definitely hits the squareness of the original. ------------------ Short gigs are like bad sex!

Post 4 \| New	Posted May 2nd, 2008
Mademan Certified University Drop-out Joined: Feb '03 Posts: 478	yes, it was the easy option for making a basic model that looked good. That or a Lada, but unfortunately there's too many of them already Thanks for posting!

Post 5 \| New	Posted May 3rd, 2008
Azz the barbarian. grrr Joined: Feb '03 Posts: 1,789 Type: Administrator	Howdy! It's looking good, shape is spot on. My only concern would be the high number of "unnecessary" polygons. When I've done 3d models I've had issues sorting the normals and shading unless I kept a very close reign on where the polys go. For example the rear of the bumper looks like it's a flat plane (might not be, can't tell from this angle). If it is you could get away with maybe 3 polys on there (one in the middle, one at each end to give the rounded look). But if you can get it looking smooth when you texture it then it doesn't matter. :) Are you going to include fins next to each wheel as an extra option? ------------------ azz.gouranga.com est. 1998 (I am oldskoolier than joo)

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Posted May 3rd, 2008

Azz
the barbarian. grrr

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Howdy! It's looking good, shape is spot on. My only concern would be the high number of "unnecessary" polygons. When I've done 3d models I've had issues sorting the normals and shading unless I kept a very close reign on where the polys go. For example the rear of the bumper looks like it's a flat plane (might not be, can't tell from this angle). If it is you could get away with maybe 3 polys on there (one in the middle, one at each end to give the rounded look).

But if you can get it looking smooth when you texture it then it doesn't matter. :)

Are you going to include fins next to each wheel as an extra option?

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est. 1998
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Post 6 \| New	Posted May 3rd, 2008
Mademan Certified University Drop-out Joined: Feb '03 Posts: 478	wahey, I got an answer! yeah, someone on nfscars.net pointed that out, you're quite right about the normals (actually, welding all the vertical rows together on the door will be a huge benefit). Basically the whole car was box modled, but I used too many segments on the primative. I was actually considering making an animation with the wheel covers folding down and the fins shooting out and it floating through water. I'll get around to the rest tomorrow or next week some point, whenever I can stop playing X3...

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Posted May 3rd, 2008

Mademan
Certified University Drop-out

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Posts: 478

wahey, I got an answer!

yeah, someone on nfscars.net pointed that out, you're quite right about the normals (actually, welding all the vertical rows together on the door will be a huge benefit). Basically the whole car was box modled, but I used too many segments on the primative. I was actually considering making an animation with the wheel covers folding down and the fins shooting out and it floating through water. I'll get around to the rest tomorrow or next week some point, whenever I can stop playing X3...

Post 7 \| New	Posted May 5th, 2008
Mademan Certified University Drop-out Joined: Feb '03 Posts: 478	just a short update, have welded a lot of vertices together to clean up the model Attached JPEG Image: esprit_rear_delete.jpg (75.11kB)

Post 8 | New

Posted May 5th, 2008. Updated May 5th, 2008

Cerbera
Ben 'Cerbera' Millard

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Doing a classic Esprit as your first car is an inspired choice. The proportions look perfect! Just a question of efficiency and neatness now.

You should keep using quads (pairs of triangles) so the polygons make a perfect grid. That works better with reflections and so forth. Just use fewer of them than you started with. Edges can be controlled with clever use of normals and "detaching", so I've read. So you shouldn't need multiple narrow lines of polygons in parallel to make edges look right.

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Post 9 \| New	Posted May 12th, 2008
Mademan Certified University Drop-out Joined: Feb '03 Posts: 478	Cheers for the feedback Cerbs Just a quick update, been working on some wheels. Attached JPEG Image: t3h_wh33lz.jpg (130.09kB)

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