The "What Are You Working On?" Thread

[Ptryyy]

Audi Coupé typ 81

 

[wmialil]

Free version of my latest rally stage now up on here for anyone that's interested

 

[AzzyFen]

don't think the real one had a badge, but I will add one

 

[ben32star]

Coming soon (still in WIP)

Tatuus FA01 revamped

 

[AzzyFen]

not a whole lot left on the outside. Need mirrors and better wheels, might redo the chrome stripes

 

[x0t]

Keep in mind I've only made semislick kinda tyres so far.

Spoiler

First of all, gotta find a good picture of the tread to turn into a pattern. If you're lucky some tyre stores will have dead on shots on their website.
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Next you turn it into a height map -#000000 is lowest, #FFFFFF is highest. Use gradients to create tapered parts. View attachment 523201

From there, you can make both diffuse and NM.

Firstly, NM - http://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/ for mine. XNormal works too. It's easy, fast and gets the job done.
Avoid the built it PS normal map generation tool as the results are terrible more often than not, it quite literally cannot output flat surfaces as perfectly flat NM.

Simply throw your heightmap into the generator and play with the sliders until you get a desired result. The default values are extremely strong so I'd suggest using up to 1 strength for tread and under 0.5 for sidewall.
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Next, some noise on parts of the tread that touch the ground. Render monochrome static, make it seamless, turn into NM. Then cut a mask from the heightmap with some feather along the edges and blend with soft light mode.
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That's about it for NM, diffuse is fairly straightforward.

Start with your heightmap set to multiply blend mode on a dark gray background, adjust opacity and levels if needed.
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Render cloud noise, make it seamless, play with blend mode and opacity until you get a good result for the tyre you're making. (Opacity turned up in the pic to make it more visible)
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Last step - I use CM for this specifically, not sure if it works if baked with Max or Blender.
Invert your normal map and use it for baking AO. It's a trick me and a friend discovered a while back.
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Apply in multiply mode.
If needed, duplicate the background in multiply mode and move it to the top to darken the entire texture.

For the alpha mask (reflectivity) I just invert the heightmap and play with levels. You should add some noise to it too but I didn't bother.
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Note that this is my personal workflow and it's very likely far from efficient or industry standard so you should probably ask Gary for advice instead.

That's almost exactly the workflow I used for the C15, weird! Yours look unbelievably better though. I played around with Substance Designer recently and it's a solid tool to create the AO and all. Thanks for taking the time to explain.

 

[AzzyFen]

Hubcap

 

[Sergio Loro]

no shaders and right now just rendered as a "track object", but could not resist to check it.

 

[Trava]

That's almost exactly the workflow I used for the C15, weird! Yours look unbelievably better though.

On another note I finished the headlights, oil coolers and grille.

Also proper B pillar trim.

 

[AzzyFen]

How did you get the side texture of the tire? Having some trouble with that

 

[Trava]

A) Google long and hard to find an usable photo
B) Take a good photo yourself
C) Eyeball it

 

[Ben O'Bro]

How did you get the side texture of the tire? Having some trouble with that

build it yourself

and a few layers later...

you can use illustrator, photoshop or even a 3D software to create the initial black & white texture
i can't find the initial file, but i believe i did it all in 3D, mostly because i'm not familiar enough with Illustrator
it's mostly having a tool so your text follows a circle.

once you have your black & white mask for all the text
it's easy to compose dirt masks in photoshop
and it's then easy to create a convincing normal map (most important part i believe)
By easy, i mean it's tedious, and probably took 8 hours to have the final map, including the threads, but there's nothing complicated to it.

While finding a good picture, could work for the diffuse. It will never produce that sharp normal map like the screen above

 

[Samuel Long]

Currently creating an anti clockwise city track. Should be a good addition to the F1 calendar judging by the latest countries they've decided to visit...

 

[Raffi_M]

Haven't been active here for ages. Now I'm back with some updates for an old livery. Only some small details are left ...

 

[NightEye87]

i believe i did it all in 3D, mostly because i'm not familiar enough with Illustrator
it's mostly having a tool so your text follows a circle.

Just FYI: this can also easily be done in Photoshop
Example here (replace custom shape with circle and you're 'done').

 

[AzzyFen]

i have something to work with, found a 50's tire in my garage

 

[MorganF120001]

F1 v8 and v10 soundmods. You can download a first beta version here:

 

[Trava]

Finishing up the interior one piece at a time.

 

[Ole Gunnar Stensrud]

Never been active here before. But I started this Formula Basic project last winter and wanted to get back on it. Modelled from scratch using what meager reference material I could find online. I've pretty much finished the frame and shell as far as a first version should go. And the suspension bits are in place. Once I have a functioning prototype I plan on approaching the teams that drive these IRL to perhaps get access to the real deal in order to take measurements. This is my first mod project so I'm probably gaping over too much but it has been fun to model so far. Now comes the suspension constraints which is where I run out of skill. So we'll see how far I get before I need proper assistance. Anyway, I'll try to post here when I get some more stuff in.

Some IRL racing with these cars for those curious about the series.

 

[Kyuubeey]

Never been active here before. But I started this Formula Basic project last winter and wanted to get back on it. Modelled from scratch using what meager reference material I could find online. I've pretty much finished the frame and shell as far as a first version should go. And the suspension bits are in place. Once I have a functioning prototype I plan on approaching the teams that drive these IRL to perhaps get access to the real deal in order to take measurements. This is my first mod project so I'm probably gaping over too much but it has been fun to model so far. Now comes the suspension constraints which is where I run out of skill. So we'll see how far I get before I need proper assistance. Anyway, I'll try to post here when I get some more stuff in.
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Some IRL racing with these cars for those curious about the series.

You should really ask for some data too if you do get contact. Going to be hard to make physics for a car that there might be no information about whatsoever.