The "What Are You Working On?" Thread

[TTM75]

Looking good Jaasu. Jatka samaan malliin.

 

[BenCollins]

I have a version of this already, but this one seems so much better, with a beautiful flow to it. Can't wait for release.

Road camber seems a lot more pronounced too. Magic work.

 

[Kasti]

Also Schotten I have Feldbergring, Clermont-Ferrand, Battenbergring, Deutchlandring and Schotten all in-game (in various stages of development). I think I have a slight problem with tracks that are built into the landscape

This is not a problem...

... it is a sign of good taste...

...ah Schotten... a legend.

 

[aphidgod]

Also Schotten I have Feldbergring, Clermont-Ferrand, Battenbergring, Deutchlandring and Schotten all in-game (in various stages of development). I think I have a slight problem with tracks that are built into the landscape

That's a wonderful problem to have.

They're all pretty fun to drive, even if I do stuff it on every hairpin thanks to no landmarks.

 

[garyjpaterson]

Apparently having 4 independent electric motors requires a lot of cooling pipes and power cabling
If anyone has any tips for animating flexible wires, I'm all ears - I've got 5 per corner!

Not far off now, just a few more details to model, almost everything is already unwrapped just to need to organise the textures. Been given a provisional thumbs up for a public release which is cool

 

[Stereo]

Pressured into actually working on it...

Rear wheels have motion blur now. Now I just need to uv unwrap everything in the picture that's shiny.

 

[mclarenf1papa]

Apparently having 4 independent electric motors requires a lot of cooling pipes and power cabling
If anyone has any tips for animating flexible wires, I'm all ears - I've got 5 per corner!

Not far off now, just a few more details to model, almost everything is already unwrapped just to need to organise the textures. Been given a provisional thumbs up for a public release which is cool

Modeling's looking really good Gary

@Ben O'Bro Did brake line animation for his Caterham(s); should know a thing or two about it.

 

[Modek]

Apparently having 4 independent electric motors requires a lot of cooling pipes and power cabling
If anyone has any tips for animating flexible wires, I'm all ears - I've got 5 per corner!

Not far off now, just a few more details to model, almost everything is already unwrapped just to need to organise the textures. Been given a provisional thumbs up for a public release which is cool

Jesus Gary are you on mushrooms !?

Thats amazing !

 

[AccAkut]

Apparently having 4 independent electric motors requires a lot of cooling pipes and power cabling
If anyone has any tips for animating flexible wires, I'm all ears - I've got 5 per corner!

that looks insane! All that detail.. about the animated wires...does the car even move that much that it warrants animating those? Are you paid enough for this? It is possible but apparently really time consuming to set up in the KS Editor and is not saved in the Persistence file, so you should do it as the very last task

 

[garyjpaterson]

that looks insane! All that detail.. about the animated wires...does the car even move that much that it warrants animating those? Are you paid enough for this? It is possible but apparently really time consuming to set up in the KS Editor and is not saved in the Persistence file, so you should do it as the very last task

Yeah suspension travel is pretty small, so its certainly not a pressing issue, will leave it to the end anyway. And no, I'm definitely not getting paid enough for it but I enjoy it which is the main thing

 

[Ben O'Bro]

Apparently having 4 independent electric motors requires a lot of cooling pipes and power cabling
If anyone has any tips for animating flexible wires, I'm all ears - I've got 5 per corner!

Not far off now, just a few more details to model, almost everything is already unwrapped just to need to organise the textures. Been given a provisional thumbs up for a public release which is cool

that's how i did for the seven
http://imgur.com/a/Th4iJ

Basically i applied the skin modifier to the brake cable, and i applied both screws as bones. No need of more null/dummy this way
prior to this, you need to make sure you put gizmo of the cable properly, and centered in 0,0,0
i edited the enveloppe very wide as you can see in the screenshots.
To try quicker what's best for enveloppe parameters, i animated some key frames of the steering, then as i was playing with the enveloppe shape, i was playing the timeline to see the result, faster than selecting the bones etc.

edit: additional note : kseditor can be a son of ***** when it comes to skinned objects, and you might not be able to select/texture them properly... i had to do the materials on the ini file and reload the file each time... so name them well to find them easily as well!

edit2: link bones (screws) to body or to wheel using hierarchy

click & drag from child to parent

 

[garyjpaterson]

that's how i did for the seven
http://imgur.com/a/Th4iJ

Basically i applied the skin modifier to the brake cable, and i applied both screws as bones. No need of more null/dummy this way
prior to this, you need to make sure you put gizmo of the cable properly, and centered in 0,0,0
i edited the enveloppe very wide as you can see in the screenshots.
To try quicker what's best for enveloppe parameters, i animated some key frames of the steering, then as i was playing with the enveloppe shape, i was playing the timeline to see the result, faster than selecting the bones etc.

Thanks, I'll give it a go. Never messed with skin modifiers and bones before!

Edit*

Quick question regarding the bones, how are they linked to the body/suspension movement? Sorry if this is a really stupid question, maybe its clear when actually trying it.

 

[HenkySA]

"i'm not a cop"

 

[DumitruM]

Apparently having 4 independent electric motors requires a lot of cooling pipes and power cabling
If anyone has any tips for animating flexible wires, I'm all ears - I've got 5 per corner!
*snip*
Not far off now, just a few more details to model, almost everything is already unwrapped just to need to organise the textures. Been given a provisional thumbs up for a public release which is cool

*deletes model*

 

[garyjpaterson]

*deletes model*

Always room for one more! Especially as yours is probably completely different to drive, being RWD and with a proper engine. Could be fun on track together too!

 

[DumitruM]

Always room for one more! Especially as yours is probably completely different to drive, being RWD and with a proper engine. Could be fun on track together too!

Mine was intended to be modeled quite low poly (only really visible parts and manifolds are higher poly) and I'm using it as a base for Uni projects

 

[CC]

Thanks, I'll give it a go. Never messed with skin modifiers and bones before!

Edit*

Quick question regarding the bones, how are they linked to the body/suspension movement? Sorry if this is a really stupid question, maybe its clear when actually trying it.

Just use two dummy as bones and use this script
https://github.com/acclub/maxscripts/blob/master/ac_dir_helper.ms

 

[Modek]

Can anyone of you modelers give me some help

Im trying to do the underbody of the M3 but i dont know how detailed you guys do

Im asking for like some pics to have an idea of how to do this ...if i need to make the engine or "simulate it with a image"

this is atm

 

[CC]

Can anyone of you modelers give me some help

Im trying to do the underbody of the M3 but i dont know how detailed you guys do

Im asking for like some pics to have an idea of how to do this ...if i need to make the engine or "simulate it with a image"

this is atm

Hi man ,
currently its perfect , add the tailpipes and move on ,
leave it as is

 

[Modek]

Hi man ,
currently its perfect , add the tailpipes and move on ,
leave it as is

What about the dif and the arms
and even the suspension ... dont i have to do them asweel ?