Spyker M16

[Erix]

This is my first car project in 3dsMax. It's the Spyker MF1 Toyota M16. This car ran the 2006 formula 1 championship and finished tenth.

The car is polymodeled and has 64000 faces (incl wheels and steering wheel). I've modeled and painted several F1 cars before for Grand Prix 4, an F1 sim from 2002. I made those cars in Zmodeler (a 3dmodeler for numerous racegames) and thought it was time to move up.

This version is unsmoothed so it runs smoothly ingame. I'm currently finetuning the model to be smoothed for the final renders. I'm also experimenting with materials, lighting and rendersetups, in which I can use some help ;) In the renders below I used Brazil's carpaint.

Here are some renders:
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5566/m16r101hs9.th.jpg (http://img171.imageshack.us/my.php?image=m16r101hs9.jpg) http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/1369/m16r100pg3.th.jpg (http://img171.imageshack.us/my.php?image=m16r100pg3.jpg) http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/3402/spykergl0.th.jpg (http://img175.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spykergl0.jpg)

and two wires:
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/2462/m16_wire_01.th.jpg (http://img265.imageshack.us/my.php?image=m16_wire_01.jpg) http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/7051/m16_wire_02.th.jpg (http://img265.imageshack.us/my.php?image=m16_wire_02.jpg)

[Trax]

yo erix :)
Kaid from gpg :)
nice car man !!:buttrock:

[revelli]

sweetnes, i love the texture quality
but you can optimize your mesh, there are many places with polygon wastement
and im not sure it some places will have good reflections in game
and for sure, ill remove 1/2 polies from tires...

[slice56]

Very very nice :buttrock:

How long does it take you to model a car like that from start to finish? Did you have blueprints? Just photo refs?

Dave

[Erix]

Blueprints of F1 cars are hard to get your hands on so I had to use photo's. I built this in my spare time for about 6 months, including the textures.

I was in the process of optimizing the mesh but stopped because it was too much to do. I'd rather started on a new project, which indeed I have.

The tyres are for rendering, not for gaming ;)

[_deus_]

Very good model. U can just render your from the top, right(left), front, and back... and I can create the blueprints from it.

[anthing]

Looks really good!! Keep it going!

[Masakari987]

Really sweet work on the Spyker!