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Ok guys, i have tried and tried again with box modelling but for a begginer i feel its sooooo complex as there is just too much going on at once to perfect anything. So i am working panel by panel trying to perfect each bit as i go, here is the outcome so far of my audi tt.

In the last attachment there is a picture of my testing out building some headlights. I gave up when i come accross the problem where the two vertices highlighed couldnt be welded. I tried to target weld the vertices but it just wouldnt have it. I think maybe because there was all ready 4 edges linked to it? This was the same for the same two vertices all the way round my headlight if you get what i mean, am i going in the right direction for the headlight? I dont know but im using Max7 and your help will be greatly appreciated!

C&C please guys

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Ok been working on the front wheel arch and front bumper, here is my progress... Once again C&C, i have tried to get as near to the blueprints as possible. Been looking at some reference images for the bonnet lines but atm this is the closest i have got.

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Ok started working on the window frame/roof and i am getting this problem. If you look at my attachments i am getting a really sharp crease like edge on the top of my window frame just above where the support pillar type thing is. I have attached my viewport and can you see whats going wrong? Thanks

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TeeWorks

hm.... strange thing, sorry that i dont really know max, but what i can say is... try again and again... i cant see something wrong by now ...do you mean that bump/welt ? ...there i would set some more polygons... to equal it... no?

so long
TeeWorks

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I am trying to keep my mesh as simple as possible. I created that pillar and where it joins there is a really really strange crease. Its really hard to show you in a single frame. When you move in the viewport you can see the way the light moves over it. But it is amazingly noticeable. Ill try and get a better render. The mesh looks fine but as soon as i apply turbosmooth this crease pops up. Really strange.

Attached the image, used a nice perlescent paint to try and outline it. And i circled it for those of you with really bad eyes

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TeeWorks

hmm... perhaps the problem of the crease is the setting of turbosmooth? is the angle to big, and therefore the edge comes out?

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Ok if you cant see it here you must be totally blind

ITS EVIL!!!

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TeeWorks

so perhaps u have to kill that n-gon that u have there.... my suggestion is this

hope it helps

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I understand where your coming from by reinforcing the polygons but it seems to make it worse

I have no idea why its doing it. I tried adding vertices all the way along the roof. I also tried just adding a diagonal strip coming off the window support. The wierd bit is if i remove the window support i still get the same problem so the window support and the extra vertice i had to create to add it are not the problem. Its really strange

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