HELP! Starting up a car project

[Sandorm]

Hey guys

I'm new in modeling and I want to make a car, but i don't know if I should make the whole car in one large piece or if I should make the doors, bumpers, bonnet etc. in separate pieces and then finally join them together? What do you guys do and what will give me the best result??

Thank you in advance for your help and response

[sw33t]

Hi,

There's a lot of tutorial video that can help you with your modeling and how to modeling a car. This is better to give the whole car shape and then, seperate by pieces when you want to make some details. That way, you can assign different textures on pieces.

I'm new in modeling too, so expert of this forum can complete this answer.

[Sandorm]

Thank you

I will start straight away

[Qualt]

hi, i'm not an expert but the best technique is the one that you feel more comfortable.
I prefer start with one piece.. and then continue, because i think that is better for the polyflow...
here are two links that might help you
follow them, they are subdivided in parts


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuvgrfMxtb4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmUeTWOJLFU

Regards, saludos
Qualt

[sw33t]

I used this tutorial to learn 3DS Max and car modeling. There's only one video missing and this is the one who explained you how to do the grill mesh..... I think this is a good start: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qCXl...eature=related

[Sandorm]

Thanks you for the videos

[КiRО]

Here are some very detailed tutorials for beginners: http://tutorial-z.com/

[SvdM]

Mostly the best is the get the general shape of the whole car minus the door-cuts and things like that. If you work in Polygons, try to keep some of your edges there where you're going to cut some detail into it later. But many people use the per polygon / edge method, where you kinda build the car per polygon until they have the general shape.

This is what I use.

Further more, you can build a very basic mesh and then collapse it under 1x smoother and then go further adding detail.

Where I will spoil the party for you is: You probably won't get it right the first time... or the second, or the third even. You'll likely start over many times until you get the hang of polygons and good meshflow and learn new tricks on the way.

Good luck. We'll be watching

[ravenzep]

Yup. Good advice. That s it ! Practice, practice, practice......