McLaren F1

[Radarhead]

I thought I'd build my favorite car. Much more to do with it. Not the easiest model to build. I'm still looking for more reference photos of the top and rear hatch area. Any good links, let me know. :)

I haven't posted a wip in quite a while.

[Attila]

nice, i like it

[FireJin3]

Amn, that car has been shown so often.

It's getting kind of boring.

[Kujoe]

Edd ,You are great.you make me so so:crazy: I just want to learn more and more, be just like you..
You is the MAN .happy to have you as a buddy..;)

[MK3D]

Model is very good.

some photos -

http://images.google.com/images?q=McLaren+F1+&svnum=10&hl=cs&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=20&sa=N

blueprints -

[Kujoe]

seen one here http://www.onnovanbraam.com/

[Morzog]

Sweet lookin model. Lookin' forward to seeing this one progress. Nice to see your back.

[sarN]

looks awesome, youre so fast i bet you spent hte same time modelling as you did rendering :D

[arreal]

it looks very good so far,I post mine.and you can visit my thread on this car,maybe it will useful

[oompa_loompa]

i thought it only had one seat ...

[Radu3]

maybe this help
otherwise i like your model :o

[scott99]

http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/extremesupercarz/mclaren/full12.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/extremesupercarz/mclaren/picture1.jpg
http://home.swipnet.se/eurenius_design/mclarenf1city.jpg
http://www.michaelp.org/photos/cars/pebble2002/concours/mclaren_f1_rear_2.jpg
http://www.100megspop2.com/bmwracer/mini_bmws/f1_01.jpg
http://www.autointell.com/european_companies/rover-cars/MG-rover-xpower-sv/mg-xpower-cockpit-300-193.jpg
http://www.live2cruize.com/Tech/McLaren/F1/f1_27.jpg

well ed, this is all the ones on google that i thught might help you... mind you i went thrugh 600 pics and picked the perfect ones out which you prob seen some of these so here they are......

btw, sorry for so many pics :ufo:

[scott99]

you using 2sided material now? never figured it out personally but looks good like that :)


and yet, another car i do not want to try now, when yu master the car, makes me not want to finish the one im doing unless it is better.... which wont happen :D::D:D:D:D:D:D:D

JUST KIDDING LOL although i have been thinking about doing one but i havnt been able to model anything at all lately......

well, enough about me, gj and gl on the rest of the car :p

[Torlok2002]

looks good, nice to have you have you back into the WIPage!

[Bravo]

Wow great work so far (as usual) radar! your work and threads have really become quite an inspiration around here! here comes another thread with a billion replies to it :D everyone asking "how do you do it?!"....and I would like to know myself. Your polymodeling so far i suppose? well once again great work, and keep us updated, as you always do!

[[r3D]]

rrr....gggggghhhhhh......kkkkkkkkkkk..........aaaa aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!
WOOPS! i was drooling..
i'm thinkin of the results that this thread will give
HOLEY BALONEY! is the first 2 words that come to my mind
amazing stuff man..

the seam over the tail-lights seems not-as-welldone-as-the-others :D to me tho.... i'm sure you can fix that too...
Keep goin..

//OutCast

[sabaman]

i said nothing, commented on arreals model insteada yours lol,


great work, keep it up,...

[Radarhead]

Wow! I appreciate all the comments and photos. All very helpfull. Tiny update. I took a detour from working on the body and built the rims and tires. Glossy reflections on the wheels and disks, double-sided material for the paint (It speeds up renders because the renderer doesn't have to calculate reflections on the backside of the materials.) Polymodeled body, splined rims and tires.

Time to get back to working on the body.

[Daniel]

going godly as usual, Mr Car Master, lol.

[Bravo]

nice work, i like the white paint! you're using HDRI correct? anyways i good work on the rims!

[Radarhead]

Thanks guyz. I use HDRI for reflections.

[Radarhead]

Front lighting is done.

[Silver Bullet]

Looking good ... your moving fast :)

[Kujoe]

Edd its great to look at ;)

[Morzog]

From your first posts I thought the front end looked a little short but I can see froom the last pics that is not the case. If you need them I have a really nice side shot and a good close up of the gas cap. Wheels look awesome.

[Radarhead]

Thanks all.
Morzog: That gascap pic would be very helpful.

Last post for the night.

[Dire Wolf]

Very Nice...Another Classic awsome looking Radarhead car!!!:drool: :drool: :drool:

[Radarhead]

Ok, I lied. THIS one will be the last for the night. :)

[Morzog]

Last ones might be a little dark but still sweeeeeet....

Gas cap

[Silver Bullet]

Again .. looking very nice :) For the singaling lights (below the headlights) did you do those at the spline level or poly level ? Because i was doing door handles last night, and making indentations at the spline level requires making a whole lot of lines. LMK .. thanks

[[r3D]]

here we go again...
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NICE WORK MAN! i love the rims but the color doesn't really match my taste :D that back seam over the taillights looks better already and those lights are stunning..
what else can i add? :D :)

//OutCast

[Radarhead]

Silver Bullet: I'm not sure I understand your question. The entire body of the car is polymodeled.

Finished up the glass and just need the door seam on the roof.

[jawahar]

awesomeness,as usual :)

[Silver Bullet]

Hey.. looking really good .. i try to clarify my question:

Case in point, below is my car, showing my attempt at putting in door handles. Would this be how you would do it. Or you would you do it later when your in poly mode ? I find it hard to edit polys on the car so i do all my work in spline mode first. LMK if this makes any sense.

Second question, if your using Brazil (i assume u are) which version are you using? I have gotten my hands on the new Max 6 and have installed Brazil 1.0 to no avail (crashes out). LMK.

[Radarhead]

Thanx.
Personally, I would do it when you're editing polys. It's difficult to be sure since I don't know what style of door handles are on the car you're modeling. I use Max 5 and Brazil 1.0.

[neo_mosher_zion]

wonderful job, another great addition to your already massive car collection... lol do you think you could actualy name all the cars you've made?

also if you have any favorites render a pic of them together... im sure im not the only person that would like to see them.

are you planning on making the interior?

[Morzog]

Just beautiful. Man you work fast. Would take me forever to get that far, like I could. Probably just me or it might be the angle but your front end is still buggin' me. Looks a little short. I have provided a pic, see what you think. Also notice in the pic the little light between the front wheel and the door seems to be a bit smaller.

[Radarhead]

It must be the view or something Morzog. Here's an overlay of my wireframe over your photo. They match very closely.

[Radarhead]

neo_mosher_zion: Thank you. I've only made a few real cars. I've butting this one off for a while. Yes, it will have an interior.

Re-built the brake disks and tweaked a few things. Onto the rear deck now.

[Radarhead]

One more for the evening.

[[r3D]]

SWEET!!!!!
damn man this is awesome...:cool:

i wish i could do all that :D and nice wire too

//OutCast

[travis_jinx]

This is looking awesome...
What do you set your iterations to when you render your scene. Looks so crisp, do you use photoshop touch ups after rendering ?

[Radarhead]

Thank you. I use 2 iterations of meshsmooth and no PS touch-ups.

[Morzog]

Okay I'm convinced. That last render has some real attitude. That orange just looks sweet.

[Rinne]

I know, it's a standart sentence, but...

GIVE ME YOUR BRAIN!!!!!

As always you did kinda perfect job so far, and I'm sure, it'll end up perfect as well. Just keep going ;)

[crashcyrex]

AWESOME great work

[snowMAN]

your reflections are always so impressive. I know your using hdr images. But what do you do to alter them to acheive such perfect reflections. GREAT WORK.

[Yanik]

Very nice modelling+texturing Radarhead.

This is one of the best mclaren models i've ever seen. You inspire me a lot.

[Radarhead]

Thanks for the comments. Mirrors are on. I should have the rear deck and rear end done soon.

snowMAN: I get the nice reflections using a Fresnel falloff of 2.5 for the paint. That's it. Of course the mesh has to be as smooth and even as possible pre-smoothed.

I liked this color so I thawt I'd post it.

[Robbod]

What can I say??? So good and so fast. How do you do it?

[Kjetil]

I bow my head in wowsome.... Wicked model!

[Radarhead]

Rear deck and fuel cap finished.

[sarN]

i wish i had talent lol
whenever i go to make sharp seams they always make some funky mesh errors...
looks great

[Zeridox]

precious....... me want my precious... My loved precious..

How in the name of god can you do stuff like that, i cant believe it!
Thats it, im going to tutor kids in picking their noses instead.

[Radarhead]

It just takes practice.

[Radarhead]

The rear is nearly finished.

[Radarhead]

An overal shot from above. Just under 480,000 polys smoothed.

[cyberdenz]

wow radarhead... you've done it again. After reading your threads from your Cala to your Elise... i'm impressed, your work inspires us all to do better. I also learned from the materials you released in this forum. Can we see the wires?

Thank you for showing us your work.:o

[Morzog]

Absolutely awesome. Man that's alot of polys. I wonder how many that will be with the interior finished. Silly question,you will be doimg the interior?

[Radarhead]

cyberdenz: I'll post some wires soon. Happy to hear that my threads help people.


Morzog: The interior is the next step.

[snowMAN]

Your work is amazing. So seamless and clean. I hope you are employed doin 3d. I really do hope.

Also do you do anything other than have a really good car paint to get those reflections. You had stated earlier to try frensel. I was just wonder if you had some tricks with your hdr maps.

[Zymotico]

Does anyone have a link to the thread that Radarhead talks about how to get that nice looking car paint? I hope it's not that "My car is faster than your car thread"...Going through 50+ pages can be a chore. :)

[cyberdenz]

Zymotico: Try the Lotus Elise thread by radarhead.:)

[cyberdenz]

radarhead: how do you setup the lightblue environment around the car (including the shadows)?

[Zymotico]

Originally posted by cyberdenz
Zymotico: Try the Lotus Elise thread by radarhead.:)

Thanks! Definently lots of good stuff in that Elise thread.

How's my paint?:

[Radarhead]

cyberdenz: If I didn't state so earlier, I use Brazil. The last renders with the soft shadows used the Brazil skylight, tinted slightly blue. The car is sitting on a circle shape that was converted to a mesh. CSG (Brazil's quick ground plane) makes the renders take longer so I use a circular plane with a two-sided material as a ground to ensure light distrubution is even.

snowMAN: HDRI: Make sure the HDRI white balance is set up correctly when loaded and use the white point as a guide only to setting the output of the image. Often the HDRI will look more realistic if the RGB output is set lower than the whitepoint.

Zymotico. The paint looks great!

[Kujoe]

very nice.thank you;)

[Radarhead]

I Liked this view.

[Silver Bullet]

Very nice :cool:

I just finished my first HDRI test, think you can take a look and tell me what i can do to improve ?

link HERE (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11133&pagenumber=2)

[Kujoe]

I Do:p

[neo_mosher_zion]

could you give an example of the bump map that you used for the tires.... cause thoughs babys are sweet and im havin trouble gettin my viper tires to look good.

[Rinne]

Slurp, I love it!

[sarN]

looks incredible, i cant believe you work so fast lol
whenever im doing cars i always get these weird mesh errors when doing seams then yeah...
are your meshes all quads?
and a pink version would look badass... lol
keep it up, cant wiat till the interiors done

[Radarhead]

neo_mosher_zion: I won't give away the bump map (although I may have posted it in another one of my car threads.) I don't just apply a bump map since a real tire's look is more than just due to the tread's relief. I use a blend material for the tread using the bump map as the mask. The raised tread has a no-specular dirt type material and the sunken tread is darker with a slight amount of gloss/spec. I apply the bump map to both materials. I painted that tread in Photoshop and it is seamless.

sarN: I do have one or two tri's and a couple of 5-sided polys but it's almost all quads. Meshtools and csPolytools helps me slide edges into place when I need sharp edges.

Pink?!? Are you serious?

[snowMAN]

Thanks sooo much for the tips radar. One more question. Do you blur your image for the sky light and use an unblurred image for reflections? Or are all the hdr's in the scen left as is.

[Radarhead]

I didn't use an image for the lighting. Just the Brazil skylight tinted to whatever color I needed. Sometimes I paint my own "HDRI"s in Photoshop when I want a more dynamic lighting setup with soft shadows but I didn't do that for these renderings.

I almost NEVER use HDRI's for lighting since the sample rate must be set so high to get a smooth result. I have developed my own technique for painting lighting images in Photoshop. Some secrets I must keep for myself.) :)

[sarN]

no wonder your images look so good lol
i always lit mine with HDRI lol... they sucked :p
anyway keep it up... and ... YES, PINK!

[neo_mosher_zion]

thanks for the help
although im not sure if i can actualy create tires like some of the tires ive seen posted here. plus i cant texture that great, im probably going to have trouble unless i get into this weekend class that is at a univeristy near me, they might be able to explain how to get into textures better.

[Radarhead]

neo_mosher_zion: If you're unfamiliar with blend materials refer to your Max help files. You don't need a class to learn how to make convincing materials although it might speed up the learning process. Of course you can create tires like you've seen. Just don't give up.

sarN: I thought Barbie drove a Corvette. :) Solid pink or metallic pink?

I started the interior today but only got the basic shape of the dash completed due to lack of time.

[Morzog]

I have seen your interiors before and they are nothing short of amazing. I am working on my interior but it is really hard getting it right with just being able to see it it the perspective viewport. Was wondering how you get yours so perfect, aside from the fact that you are very skilled? Should I be detaching and hiding or something?

[snowMAN]

Again thanks for the tips. I know how it is sometimes, people askin how to you have done things, wantin to know without them actual goin thru the trial and error. I have begun to paint my own hdr's now it makes the scen light set up so much better.

Your mat on the brack disc is amazing. I assume you made that with splines and then have some costume maps. Prob a little more complicated then that. Looks Amazing tho.

[Radarhead]

Morzog: I find as many interior photos as I can as a reference for modeling interiors. Model all the ellements as seperate objects, isolating only the other parts needed in order to get things to line up, etc. Example: to model the dash you may only need the windshield or doors visible. Don't forget that you can hide groups of polygons so that only the neccessary polys are visible. Like the back edge of the hood, etc. Otherwise, your system may bog down while rotating the view due to the high number of polys the video card is drawing.

snowMAN: Thanks . The brake discs are splined. The material is a combination of a custom bump map, color filter map and glossy reflections.

[Kujoe]

heres a tire tut for you http://www.onnovanbraam.com/
hope it helps neo_mosher_zion



Youe renders look better and better.I like the lighting better.
NICE;)

[neo_mosher_zion]

thanks guys. that is a an asome looking car.

i like the texture you made for the paint

also do you have a picture on a plane above the car or are you using a ratrace with a picture?

[crashcyrex]

this is one awesome model of McLaren...btw Radarhead, can u also help out with textures in Maya by any chance, like achieving real-life look of cars in Maya? i'm using maya 4.5 unlimited...thanx in advance

[Radarhead]

neo_mosher_zion: Do you mean for the reflections? No, it's an HDR image mapped to the environment.

crashcyrex: I've never used Maya but I'm sure someone can help you.

[Rinne]

Wow, really cool effect :)

The car really seems to have a low Poly count, can it be that the wheels use most of the polys?

crashcyrex: If maya has a shellac material, or something like that, you should watch the Max tutorials on 3d-t, there's one on how to do car paint without any plugin, I think it can help you ;)

It's called "Car Paint Tutorial" how ironical :P

[LiquidStorm]

oh my damn, the car looks amazing, but I still can't see how that low mesh can achieve such quality, and the wheels :o, i dunno if u need that much geometry on them

[sarN]

yeah this car looks so good... lol metallic pink! haha
i love that silver too :D
awesome job radarand if im not mistaken, thats the low poly wire blended in with the smoothed and textured car right?

[Radarhead]

The body wire is NOT smoothed. The tire geometry does not get smoothed. That's how they are at render time. I could do one with a smoothed wire. The model is over 500,000 polys smoothed now.

[Radarhead]

Ok, sarN. Is this pink enough? LOL!

[sarN]

i just keep looking at this car and, your seams are amazing lol, you should write a tutorial on how you do yours like, whenever i do mine i always get like a mesh error
heres what i do... i chamfer all the edges at .15 then cut two edges to form squares to keep it sharp
then extrude the border back... then i get like small knots near the sharp part of the seam (most of the time)

hahaha sweet! that ownsssssssssss lol

[bradjames]

man this is so beautiful i almost start to cry when i say it..i love this car and you've capture it so well in this model..

[Radarhead]

Thanks for the comments.

sarN: I guess I'd have to see a wire to really understand how your edges are.

bradjames: There, there. Don't cry.

Here's the smoothed wire thus far.

[brettm133]

Wow that's awesome.. so pretty. :)

Do you mind showing an unsmoothed wire?

You're car rules.. :)

[Radarhead]

Pre-smoothed wire.

[0verfl0w]

wow - impressive as always

but can you give me some hints on how you did that compositing with the 2d image.

i really want to do that with my next car

flo

[Zymotico]

Just for fun, could you render one image with the car unsmoothened (with all the shiny reflection stuff).

Just curious what that car might look like in a real time application. (assuming we all had ultra high tech/fast hardware accelerated per-pixel shaders, and no cheating with normal maps). :)

[Trevorn]

Absolutely incredible Radarhead. The wireframes themselves are works of art.

[DBJ]

This is very, very nice. Probably a little to early to be thinking about what your next project is gonna be, but do you have any cars in mind?

.... Wow!!

[Silver Bullet]

As usually beautiful :)

100th post also :)

I really really like the transition between paint lines and paint again .. need a tutorial on that!!

Looking forward to more updates :)

[cyberdenz]

I think you really should make a tutorial on one of your cars (the Cala, Elise or the maclaren)... please please please...:o

Specially on detailing... :D

[Kujoe]

:) what can I say.nice work buddy;)

[Attila]

wow very nice, now am jealous

:dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

[Dire Wolf]

I have 2 quick questions for you radarhead;

1. For your headlight scatter do you use Brazil Glass or a standard max material? If you use Brazil Glass do you place the checker map in the refraction filter slot?

2. What IOR do you use for your window glass? 1.5? 1?

BTW, the car is looking very very nice.

[Ganesh]

Originally posted by cyberdenz
I think you really should make a tutorial on one of your cars (the Cala, Elise or the maclaren)... please please please...:o

Specially on detailing... :D

and with rendering setup and materials tooo plzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[ido]

this is amazing Radarhead, very beautiful :)
but it isn't very ecological, how about modeling a subway train for your next project? :D (see also 3Dans Chevrolet thread)

[RafG]

Radar, sorry for stupid question: did u use "car paint" brazil preset scheder or mats made by yourself?
What about modelling tire discs: i've problems making round holes.

Impressive work at all. Please, post a render with realistic background...

[Kujoe]

Hi Edd
Can you tell me how to put the material editor and slip in the render environment common parmeters?:(

[Radarhead]

Thanks for all the replies. I didn't have any time to work on the car today.

DBJ: Haven't really thought about my next project.

Silver Bullet: I may write a short tutorial on how to do a composite like that.

cyberdenz: I won't be doing a car tutorial. There are already plenty of good ones out there.

Dire Wolf: I use Brazil glass and a custom painted bump map for the headlights applied to only one side of the lens. The lens in modeled with thickness like the real thing. IOR of 1.5 for all the glass on the model.

ido: A subway train? LOL!

RafG: I use Brazil Advanced Default materials for auto paint, placing a Fresnel Falloff in the reflection slot, with an IOR of 2.5. The discs are simple splines with a Bevel modifier to extrude and slightly bevel the edges.

Kujoe: I'm not sure what your question is. Do you mean for reflections etc.?

[Kujoe]

this is. i don't know how to do it..this is what it said

make slip this map into the slot environment.

[brettm133]

Wow.. looks really cool.. you should animate it and your other cars and have some sort of street race. That would be so cool.. :cool:

[Dire Wolf]

Originally posted by Kujoe
this is. i don't know how to do it..this is what it said

make slip this map into the slot environment.

You want to move a material from the material editor to the environment slot? All you need to do is drag the material to the environment slot.

To go from environment slot to material editor - Drag from the environment slot to the material editor

Hope you dont mind me helping you out. Also hope Radarhead doesn't either. :)

[Kujoe]

I do that but it won't drop:(

[Dire Wolf]

Originally posted by Kujoe
I do that but it won't drop:(

Thats odd...What type of material are you trying to drop into the slot?

I believe it has to be a map (ie noise, bitmap, smoke, etc) not a material. Beyond that maybe post a screenshot of the material you are trying to drop in the environment slot.

[Kujoe]

has the tut i was doing http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.guillaume3d.com/tutoriels/porsche/&prev=/%20search%3Fq%3D3D%2BStudio%2BMax%2Btutorial%2BBra zil<br%20/>%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8


its the last one

[Dire Wolf]

Ahhh...You are trying to place a HDRI map in the enviroment slot, I believe.

Try following this tutorial for that. (HDRI (http://www.splutterfish.com/gabry_hdri_tut_tmp/) ) Much clearer and detailed.

You will need this plugin (here (http://www.splutterfish.com/sf/downloads/max/hdri/HDRI_v1.0.1.zip) )

And here (http://www.debevec.org/) you can get some HDRI maps. You will need to edit them using HDR Shop (http://www.debevec.org/HDRShop/), which is covered in the above tutorial.

[Kujoe]

thanks ,your to funny..Have all that..Why cann't I slip it in..

[rubberduck]

Wow, haven't kept up with this thread, just beautiful work;)

[Radarhead]

Ray: You can't drag a material into the environment slot but you CAN drag a bitmap into the slot. Click the Get Material button and select Bitmap. Then choose the HDRI that you want to use. Make sure to map it spherically. Then you can drag it to the environment. Make sure you select "Instance."

[Kujoe]

Thanks Edd .I new you would know.How I missed that ,I don't no.:roll: ;)

[crashcyrex]

This car is just too beautiful and realistic...love your work Radarhead....awesome one again.... :D

[Radarhead]

Glad to help, Ray.

crashcyrex: Thank you. This model turned out better than I had anticipated for the short amount of time I worked on it.

Now I need to finish up the interior.

I built different wheels for it. I guess the old ones were boring me. :)

[snowMAN]

How I love lookn at your renders. SO very very good.

[Bravo]

Looking Great! Wasn't that composite just blended in photoshop?

[Radarhead]

Thanks guyz.
Yes, the wire one was a PS composite from 3 renders. One was the wire, the normal render and one was just the car with an alpha channel that I used for masking in PS.

[Kujoe]

sweet Thanks..I like that look..Was it alot of work Edd.I'll have to try it..For my profile.;)

[Radarhead]

It's not difficult at all if you are very familiar with Photoshop and working with layers and masks. You can do it!

[scott99]

seems as though you got WAYYYYYYYYYY faster :D and i got waaayyyyyyyyyy slower:eek: but it looks nice, i like it alot, what hdri are you using?

[Bravo]

Yes, I am kind of interested in that too. Is the HDRI probe public? it looks really great, if it's public, do you think you could point us in the right direction?

[Kujoe]

http://www.splutterfish.com/gabry_hdri_tut_tmp/
Here you go.Lol it was posted here.back a page

http://www.debevec.org/


http://www.debevec.org/HDRShop/
Ok if the links I give are not good .go to page 8 and read;) :haha:

[Bravo]

Hehe, thank you, my friend! Kujoe and Radarhead-how do you like this car paint material I came up with? I used an HDRI map from the site you (kujoe) gave me for the reflections, and radarheads settings for the paint! Not meaning to steal your thread radarhead, just wondering if this is looking correct to you? Your model is looking great so far radar. I really love the white paint you have! The purple/pink/red in the last couple of renders is looking really nice too. And kujoe, I don't think doing a composite like radar has is very time consuming, and it's a really nice (and simple to do!) effect. Well, here's my paint anyways!

[Radarhead]

Your paint looks good but if it's meant to look like metallic paint then you need to place a specular-only light in the scene and use a broad highlight on the material.

Started the interior. I used a super basic material for the seats and default lighting so things would show up better.

[Radarhead]

Another angle.

Regarding the HDRI I'm using. I've been using several, depending on the render, lighting camera angle etc.

[Kujoe]

Bravo.Looks great to me.:dance:


Hi Edd.

that looks so good.I just love the doors open

[[hQk].$+34]{Y]

WOW!! Great work! (as usual)
Awesome model Radarhead :D
The mesh is so perfect and you work sooo fast!
updates updates!!:D

Oh yea and what do you mean by a specular only light???? How do you do that??? I've always been wondering but never found out.

anyway great work and keep posting :D

later

[Kujoe]

[hQk].$+34]{Y hi
I know ,chick on the light. keep looking down the right side till you see specular,then bang there it is with the check mark.do the check mark and don't do the check mark.all the lights don't need it.play around with it..;)

[[hQk].$+34]{Y]

Ahhh!! I see !!:D

thanks alot Kujoe :D

[Radarhead]

I still need to make the inner door panels and instrument panels.

[Jazzy]

I really like the background for that, the moody sky really compliments the car and makes it stand out .... gives it an attitude. Composition is always as important as a good model, so well done on that side of things too.

What i like about the picture is how it looks like a poster you'd find in a car magazine, stick a couple of staples in the middle, but some text and headers on it and hey presto ..... instant Top Gear magazine poster ..... (or the American equivalent :D)

Have you ever thought about printing your work ?

[Radarhead]

Another angle.

[sabaman]

man that is saweet, one small crit or remark or whatever, the breakdiscs arent very convincing, the rest is ace man,



ahhh, that aint it, i think you need to move em slightly inwards so theres space for the calliper, i think thats whats bothering me,...

[Kujoe]

I to love the scene great.I like the disk,I would put the Caliper on.
Because I love the disks.Makes it look like you can stop on a dime..;)

[Silver Bullet]

That front shot is MINT ! :cool: .. the side.. mmm .. i don't like the rims.. the ones u had before were much better .. and i agree with Kujoe and Sabaman about the brakes .. they need a little work.

[0verfl0w]

cool!!!!

can you please tell me how to join a 3d car with a simple 2d background.

how do i get the right camera angle?
how do i get the right shadows?


maybe you can find the time to answer these questions.


thx in advance,


flo

[novoAlias]

very nice modelling as usual -5stars! actually i think the giant brake disks work and the mags r pretty kewl even tho they r not overly complicated :D

[Radarhead]

Thanks for the comments.

The new rims are from a newer model of the F1. Several versions of this car have been built. The materials will be better when I take the time to tweak them. Right now I'm trying to get the modeled components completed. The door panels are now complete. I did shove the brake discs back. The disks on the original car are huge.

0verfl0w: The renders with the sky involves an image of the sky on a plane. Use the align tool to orient the plane to be perpendicular to the camera. As far as getting the right camera angle and shadows it's a subjective thing which involves experimentation. There is no single correct answer. Just find what looks pleasing to the eye.

[jawahar]

awesome render as usual radar.

[Morzog]

Just keeps getting better. Would love to have some larger pics for my desktop once you finish this.

[Radarhead]

I'll make some larger renders available when it's complete. :)

Just a shot with the hatch open.

[korx]

looks awesome radar, iv always enjoyed your work.

[Bravo]

Looking great still! I don't know much about the Mclaren, but if the engine is visible will you be modeling it?

[Radarhead]

Thanks.
I probably won't be modeling the engine. The polycount is pretty high as it is.

I haven't posted a render in a while so here's one.

[cyberdenz]

impressive!!! your wip always end up as my wallpaper. The frequent you update, the frequent my wallpaper change.;)

Is it ok if I use your pics on the website i am developing?:o

[Radarhead]

Thanks cyberdenz. I no longer allow general use of my images without my permission and without my business' trademark on them. That reminds me, I need to start putting the trademark on my stuff.

I guess that means you can use it since you asked! Just give credit to the artist. Much thanks.

[0verfl0w]

that really looks beautiful.

the only thing that doesn't seem as perfect as everything else is the material of the wiper.
but that is just my opinion.

and i have another question for you:

i think you used a hdri again for your reflections but you have a gradient background.

i always wanted to know if in brazil you can make an environment for reflections and a different one for the real background?

[Radarhead]

0verfl0w: I used a map that I painted in PS for that last render for the environment and "yes" with Brazil you can have a different background than the one that reflections are "seeing."

[Rinne]

Looks so real:eek:

go on, yeah! do it!:D

[Vitor]

Raderhead, it's amazing as always.

I really like the headlights material. :D

[Radarhead]

Thanks all. Here's another studio shot. I have wallpaper images of this car in 3 sizes on my website if anyone wants one. The images are uncompressed for greatest clarity. Just go to the Gallery/McLaren page and you'll see them.

I'll be making more soon.

[LittleJohn]

Proffesional work as usual mate...:):) Thumbs up...

Only one question...What`s your method of lining up vertices, to get as smoothed lines as possible? I always find your models edges really smoothed and lined up...I always use numeric values for each vertex, but its a time-consuming method and not ``practical`` .

[Radarhead]

Thank you LittleJohn. Most vertices I line up visually but there are times that I enter numeric values to correct errors that need extreme precision.

[Silver Bullet]

:eek:

As usual :)

Amazing

[Radarhead]

Just another render. Not much time to work on it lately.

[snowMAN]

wooooooooooooooooooooooow !!!! i mean does it get any better. Nice work.

[Morzog]

Lookin' soooo damn good. The blue one is on my desktop, thank-you.

[B.R.Rajeev]

Awwweeeesoommmmeee man,
its just great.

people like you motivate me to work on cars, more and more...

can u make 1 high res render ( 1280 x 1024 ) for my desktop ? in your free time :D :D

[Radarhead]

Thanks guys. I have high resolution wallpaper images on my website. It's a version in metallic blue.

[snowMAN]

Isnt the Ferrari Enzo the new fastest production car. :D

[Radarhead]

Nope. Enzo tops out at 217.5 mph. The F1 at 240 mph.

[Silver Bullet]

Mclaren not the fastest anymore ...

Koenigsegg CC (http://www.koenigsegg.com/index.asp) takes that title. Top speed ~245MPH and 0-62MPH 3.5sec

[Ferry P]

and bugatti veyron has beaten the koenigsegg.
top speed 406 km/h (252,3 mph)
0-100 km/h in 3,2 sec.
0-300 km/h in 12 or 13 sec.

great car radarhead.

[snowMAN]

I stand corrected. hahaha

[Gl2eEn]

hehe... oo great work radarhead!

what is the max speed you can drive in Las Vegas? coz the fastest car i saw in Helsinki was Lamburghini Diablo and i saw it only once, max speed in helsinki is 40 km/h i just cant imagine me sitting in car like F1 or Enzo or Bugatti and not go at least 150 km/h, well sure i wud go outside the city but max speed outside the city is about 150... :\

Damn! im gonna move from this country!

[crashcyrex]

Veyron rules....the fastest car on the market to date....for a small price, u'll feel a good wind lol

[novoAlias]

TVR speed 12 beats the Mclaren F1 but im not sure wat at... i think its torque, no-one knows the torque of the speed 12 coz the machine to measure it broke everytime they tried :p. i think its got pretty mean acceleration aswell tho ill go check it out.
BTW absolutely stunning modelling as usual radarhead dont ever stop :D

[munkY]

the koenigsegg is the fastest car!

[RickStefani]

With a carbon fiber frame I would be a little freaked to get in a wreck at any speed. It is like carbon fiber mt bikes. They are great in ridged strength but one it starts to break it just crumbles. Does not bend and absorb. Kinda seems like starping a rocket to your back and jumping on a skate board.

[cyberdenz]

wow the koenigsegg is beautiful, does anybody have the blueprints for that car? ;)

[DeepFish]

RadarHead, would it be possible to post more wireframes? That transparent one is a bit confusing, and im still learning a lot about the form flow from your stuff. Amazing stuff as usual, you should really do a tutorial on created a car's body, your rims tutorial is priceless, time to add one more :)

P.S. if you gonna post a wireframe, can you post a low res? High res is not much of a help :)

Thanks

[TigerDog]

Hi RadarHead,

Your Car looks great!, Inparticular im very interested in how you got the lights on your car to look like they are on. It looks realistic IMO and am wondering if you can give me some pointers as to how you achived this. :)

[mengy]

How do you do detach + extrude and keep the sharp corners after mesh smooth?

[nico3d]

mengy, I'm not as good as radarhead but I can answer your question. For sharp edges you have to chamfer the edges, Small values will increase the sharpness whereas high value will smooth out the surface.
Or you can use crease as well but the results are different from the chamfered edges.

[figo]

are there any cheats for Max that you're using Radarhead :p

looking awesome