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    • KrisidiousK Offline
      Krisidious
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      You can put it on the track with this.

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      By: Kristoff Rand
      Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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      • hellnbakH Offline
        hellnbak
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        Nice work. Can you show us some more of your cars?

        "Politicians are just like diapers -- they need to be changed often, and for the same reason"

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          chad3006
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          Thanks, here's how they appear in the Speed Dreams game:

          http://phillipsarts.com/images/consultinahalf.jpg

          1965 Ford/Lotus Cortina

          http://phillipsarts.com/images/nascar-gm-57ponton-half.jpg

          1957 Pontiac

          http://phillipsarts.com/images/javelina-half.jpg

          1971 AMC Javelin

          http://phillipsarts.com/images/fruitbasket-half.jpg

          1962 Pontiac Super Duty

          You can download 'em from the Speed Dreams forum:
          http://community.speed-dreams.org/viewtopic.php?f=4%26amp;t=202

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          • Bryan KB Offline
            Bryan K
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            Very cool! 👍

            See my portfolio at https://delphiscousin.blogspot.com/

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              chad3006
              last edited by

              It's pretty much finished.

              http://i1159.photobucket.com/albums/p622/chad3006/sc57nash_zps04e8686a.png

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              • pbacotP Offline
                pbacot
                last edited by

                Great modeling! Some interesting year/models.

                MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                • Bryan KB Offline
                  Bryan K
                  last edited by

                  That is sweet!

                  Can you briefly give us a idea how you made it? For instance, the overall shape of the body panels? Did you use a plug-in are did you hand make all the polygons or both?

                  See my portfolio at https://delphiscousin.blogspot.com/

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                    chad3006
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                    I use a pretty much stock version of Sketchup 8 (sometimes in Linux.) There is only one plugin that is absolutely essential for me and that's TIG's obj exporter plugin (http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=33448). I've got other plugins that are handy, but not strictly necessary; some of which I no longer remember where I got them. These are “triangulate faces,” “center group bottom,” and part of Fredo's Tools “remove lonely vertices.”

                    What I especially like about TIG's obj plugins is that they preserve the scaling of the model; I can break the model in pieces, work on them in another modeling program or UV mapper and everything will still fit together when I put it all back.

                    The game I work on requires the models to be in AC3D format. The open source flight sim Flightgear has a SU plugin that exports to AC3D format, but it also combines all the model's components which doesn't work for me. That's why I use TIG's obj exporter. I use AC3D to do the final UV mapping and exportation of the finished model. I export as a Collada model and then can re-import to SU, however any faces that perfectly aligned with any of the model's axes don't preserve proper UV mapping when imported to SU, so when UV mapping I have to treat those faces specially (hard to explain, but not that hard to do.)

                    As for my modeling work flow:
                    1 Import the best photos of the car I can find, as usually I can't find blueprints for the oddball cars I model.
                    2 Scale the side view photo as close as possible to a known dimension (like wheelbase) and then allign and scale all other photos to the side view shot.
                    3 Be sure to make all parts of the model on the axis you want right from the start, if you rotate them after you made them into components or groups they'll be screwed up when you export them into other stuff.
                    4 I make heavy use of the “follow me” tool, the “push pull” tool, and the “intersect faces” tool.
                    5 I draw my outlines of the shape I'm working on (like body panels) on the reference photo and extrude them to where they should go. I'll extrude a curve to represent the front to back curve, since cars usually aren't perfectly square sided; then intersect the two extrusions, erase everything but the combined curved line that represents the intersection of the top of the body panel and the front to back curve.
                    6 Then I use the follow me tool to create the rough body panel (roughly curved in all directions).
                    7 I can then extrude, intersect and erase the wheel cutouts etc.
                    8 Once triangulated I individually push or pull some vertices to where I think they should be.
                    9 I also push or pull vertices to combine various unnecessary triangles (since I model low poly game stuff mostly.)
                    10 furthermore I don't use the default SU circle or curved line. If I need a curve I manually draw it with straight lines or “cut the corners” off the default circle.
                    11 I also color different components of the model differently to make selecting by material easier; when I push or pull vertices I need the model whole and I don't break it into individual components until it's closer to finished.

                    http://i1159.photobucket.com/albums/p622/chad3006/cat1_zpsd0343a39.png

                    http://i1159.photobucket.com/albums/p622/chad3006/cat2_zpsc40c19b4.png

                    http://i1159.photobucket.com/albums/p622/chad3006/nashearly_zpsb8d3dbee.png

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                    • Mike LuceyM Offline
                      Mike Lucey
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                      Thanks for the insight Chad.

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                      • pbacotP Offline
                        pbacot
                        last edited by

                        Yes, thanks Chad for taking the time to explain so much. 👍 👍

                        MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                        • hellnbakH Offline
                          hellnbak
                          last edited by

                          Nice to see someone willing to share their modeling techniques. Won't help me, of course, I'm stuck using my clunky methods, but I'm sure they will prove very helpful to others.

                          Well done!

                          "Politicians are just like diapers -- they need to be changed often, and for the same reason"

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                          • KrisidiousK Offline
                            Krisidious
                            last edited by

                            I do some game stuff too...

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                            By: Kristoff Rand
                            Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                              chad3006
                              last edited by

                              @krisidious said:

                              I do some game stuff too...

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                              Looks really good Krisidious!

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                                chad3006
                                last edited by

                                Update: While I still use TIG's obj exporter for many things, I've found the newest version of Flightgear's AC3D exporter to work perfectly now. It breaks the model into components according to their color, so all "004 Hot Pink" parts for example will be treated as a single component in AC3D. It also preserves the model's scaling properly too.

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                                • okomtaO Offline
                                  okomta
                                  last edited by

                                  yes,, i like it a classic car,,,do you see my corvette 1961 ?...😄 no,,just joke man,,i like the metode, the wire mesh,,,keep it your spirit up,,,

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                                  • ken28875K Offline
                                    ken28875
                                    last edited by

                                    Very nice model, Chad. 👍 👍

                                    Have a great week!

                                    _KN

                                    Follow Your Dreams.

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