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[benflex]

I want to make james dean's car little bastard.



here is the car i did with blender:




Next step: baking texture into a low poly car...


the early process

[Clutch]

what about windscreen? if my memory is well, it has little windscreen.

[benflex]

Clutch yes, your memory is accurate.

I think i will remove the screen because there is no way to make transparency on driver cars.

Also there is this little "bump" above the driving wheel:

...not symmetrical.


This model uses a symmetry modifier (blender). I want to keep everything in one single piece. I don't want to merge the symmetry.

I think i will add disymetrical elements at the end of the porcess, in the low poly model.

[Fireboyd78]

YES! Very nice!

[benflex]

Thank you @Dr. Doom

Now I m beginning the main character:

[benflex]

here is the progress of the car. I have to keep it very low because i save triangles for the character.

[Skylabh]

Nice

[0takumetalhead]

I can't wait till it's finished

[benflex]

I m starting the bake of textures, it means the car will be ready soon.

[Clutch]

image is broken

[benflex]

Thanks for the feedback Clutch. I use twitpic, maybe it don't work with the forum...

here is a more recent one:

[Clutch]

like for this polycount, looks very nive front part of texture looks like from PSX xD

[Fireboyd78]

It looks so nice considering the low poly count. What's up with the back??

[benflex]

yes Dr. Doom there is a ugly angle in the back. I m very short with triangles: the character takes 62 tris. I should find a way to smooth it.

[Fireboyd78]

So tell me Ben, what's it like modeling super low poly cars? You're basically using professional techniques game designers had to use back in the PS1 days!

[benflex]

Well Dr. Doom, actually i think game designers in PS1 days had a more simple workflow. For exemple i do high poly because i want to improve my skills with car bodies. But it could be done faster....

[benflex]

progress, now the texture work...

[0takumetalhead]

Awesome! can't wait to give it a spin.

[benflex]

Hehe thanks for encouragement @0takumetalheadgamer , it motivates me that people enjoy driving the cars

[carking1996]

I'd say remove the orange from the back. Looks like someone just painted it with a paintbrush.

[benflex]

@carking1996 thanks; yes i will correct it. According to you is it the problem of the orange color, or the shape?


some progress:

[0takumetalhead]

Which car wil it replace? If you don't mind me asking.

and it looks even more amazing in-game

[benflex]

@0takumetalheadgamer I use "PLAYERCAR1CLEAN.dmodel" in "miami_01.lev"
Feel free to ask

Thanks, If only i could have decent reflections on the car body...

[Clutch]

do you realize that the man will be eventually shining too? xDD you could make him bald xDDD

btw, can you show me the UV map in 256x256? I suppose the front of the car is quite small here On the model texture looks like directly from NFS Porsche on PSX

[someone972]

Actually you can choose which polygons are shiny, so the person can still be flat while the car is shiny.

[Clutch]

ah, fine

[0takumetalhead]

I think it would fit as an replacement for the Ferrari (-ish) car, but that is just an thought of my.

[benflex]

@Clutch ahah no, i did not realise. Yeah bald James Dean

@someone972 tell me what is the way to decide witch polygon is shiny please!...or maybe you could post process the car for me ???

[someone972]

Unfortunately there is not a way to set which ones are shiny yet. The functionality is built into the vertex fix, but the tool to modify the files is not yet finished. I am working on it and making progress though.

[Clutch]

i'm glad you make some progrees