Driver Madness

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

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

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.

YES! Very nice!

Thank you @Dr. Doom

Now I m beginning the main character:

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

Nice

I can't wait till it's finished

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

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

here is a more recent one:

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

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

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.

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!

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....

progress, now the texture work...

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

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

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

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


some progress:

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

and it looks even more amazing in-game

@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...

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

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

ah, fine

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

@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 ???

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.

i'm glad you make some progrees