jaguar e-type

[cbaristo]

hi!

This is my 2nd serious car! I made some other wheels vehicles but without so many details as this jaguar.

I started this car a lot of months ago! I made some progress and then it was in the freezer for a long time. Few days ago i started to work on it again. I will try to remove its WIP condition! : )

this picture is how it looks the last time I was working on it (months ago). It was made in max 5 and with brazil, now im working in max 6 with vray.

I made a lot of progress last week. I will show you this progress with some more pictures first so ill get some feedback about this work. I will tell you when the pictures you are seing are the actual state of the car.

hope you like it.

[cbaristo]

this is how the wheels looks with brazil

[cbaristo]

here you can see some problems with the door. I really had a lot of problems modeling the doors.

[zuc]

cbaristo looks really nice so far! What are you planning to do next? Do u want to work some more on the exterior? You also want an interior?

[novoAlias]

cool, looks a little long even for an e type tho ;)

[cbaristo]

hi zuc,
There is few more things to model in the exterior like door handles, mirrors, etc., and then the interior.

I found some things to fix in the main body but I will make this corrections at the end of the project.

This is the second version. This was rendered with Vray. Every mat was erased and I come back to clay look. I modify some little details on the main body like the "interior edge", now it has some kind of "wall" that continues the door shape and I did model some new details like mirrors, door handles and seats.

[cbaristo]

here you have a couple of pictures of the seats.

[cbaristo]

hi blackwolf,
thanks dude

about the long of the car: I used blueprints, so if the car looks longer than the real one i picked bad bluerpints : ( hope not.
But I have a lot of photo references and a bburago model and I think the long is ok.

thanks for the replys and comments guys!
cya

[cbaristo]

this is my last picture for today.
some work on the interior.

[whiteboy]

O man i love the rims on that car how did u create them please give a brief description. Thanks

PS pics would be nice to on how u did it lol

[cbaristo]

no problem whiteboy, here you have a description of the entire wheel. Its simple.

see the attached picture,
a. this piece still needing extra drawings so it is momentary. It is just a spline + lathe modificator right now. I think I will make it an editable poly to make the drawings. The color difference was made with differents IDs in the spline and using a multi/sub object material.

b. another simple spline + lathe modificator.

c. and another

d. this is an editable poly with meshsmooth.

The hardest thing about this wheel was the rays position because I never found a good picture with this detail.
I just got positioned a couple of rays in the final position and using the piece c as center of rotation I made an array to get the count of rays I was looking for.

each ray is just a line (spline) rendereable with some thickness.

thanks for posting,
hope helps
cya

edit: change just an english problems : (

[cbaristo]

some interior progress pictures.
almost everything here is poly modeling + meshsmooth.

[cbaristo]

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[zuc]

It looks really nice so far, only one crit! I think the back of the seats is a little too thin if you know what I mean! It's ok if u used some ref pics but it still looks a little too thin for me! Maybe make it thicker...

[cbaristo]

hi again zuc,

I dont know exactly what direction are you talking about, a? or b?
but anyway I agree that the back seat looks thin from any point of view. But this is how it is. At least the one I took as reference.

This seat doesnt look comfortable at all. its very small!
I studied industrial design and this seat proportions are not in any book i think! But we are talking about a sport car from the 50s, and at this time the ergonomy wasnt as important as today in the car industry, sepecially at sport race cars.

cya

[cbaristo]

here is the best reference picture i got

[whiteboy]

thanks mate for that little tutorial. Keep it up looks awesome so far.

[zuc]

Yes, well, weird, I have never seen that type of car seats:). I meant the b picture, even with the ref pic it still looks a little thin! Well, It is really confortable where yor butt is :) and at the back it looks stiffy. Lol, it's a weird seat design:) Crazy ppl those days:) lol
Got some updates?

[cbaristo]

update, lets put some color to the project. This is just the v12 over a plane, there is no car here, just a test render now with vray.

I will have more updates later, after work.

[zuc]

ccol! Ir looks nice! U use HDRI?

[cbaristo]

thanks, yes I used a vray HDRI map.

[3Dan]

I love these Jags and am following this thread with gusto. This last emblem is awesome. Show us a nonsmoothed wire.

Thanks for the tut. I also used renderable splines on my wires.
Also, your model deserves better tires. they look like tube objects. You may "fatten" their cross section for more realism. And to add yet more realism flatten and bulge them out at the bottom.

[cbaristo]

hi dan, thanks for your comments and welcome to the thread.

yes you are absolutly right, those tires are kind of simple stuff. I made this at the very start of the project and the entire job quallity went up but the tires stills the same. I was thinking to remake the tires in the near future making new drawings on it. the jag definitively deserve this change!

I will make those deformations you are talking about. I was thinking about a displacement plane so I can animate the tire and keep the deformation in place.

is a gusto to see more people posting some feedback like you guys!

cya.

PS. I will post the wire you asked for later, once at home!

[cbaristo]

hi,

here is the v12 wire.
The first thing modeled was the "V", I used the symmetry modifier to build it and once done I converted it into an editable poly in order to make the "12".

[cbaristo]

another picture

[cbaristo]

following the 3Dan comment I went for better reference pictures and I totaly remade the tires!
Now i think i have the same quality of details than the rest of the car.

There is only one thing missing about the tires, the drawings, I wont model it because it is so mesh expensive and i think this is unecesary. I will use bump mapping for this stuff.

about the making of the new tire I made it almost in the same way than the original one so the "tutorial" wont change a lot. There is some new objects like a lot of spheres and a new poly piece at the end of the rays, simple new stuff.

[cbaristo]

now the rim has the right number of rays and it looks much better with the chrome applied. I will work in the mats and specially in the tire bump mapping in the future, now i am going back to the rest of the car.

[cbaristo]

damn it!
I forgot the attach!

[zuc]

Looks really cool cbaristo! The new wheels are great and I love the V12 sign!!

Keep it up!

[nico3d]

SUPERB are the rims, the V12 logo, the seats !! EXCELLENT! !!

on the other hand I still don't feel fully convinced about the exterior. I don't know if it's the bad blueprints you said you got, but it looks somehow flat and streched, like if it had been smashed as a rubber.....

Maybe I should look at the car in real life.....

in any case you already have an astounding model...keep it up !!!! want to see more

[travis_jinx]

nice work, looking really good.
just wondering what HDRI image are you using on your rims, looks sweet !

[cbaristo]

hi everybody,

ZUC: once again thanks for your comments.

NICO: Hi man, thanks for the kind words. I checked the car proportions once again and once again I found the car is ok. I attach a render with the blue prints. Once done I look at this render and one think I realize is that I modeled the car without the ceiling and this is maybe why the car looks flat or something.

Anyway you have to remember that this car should be a very long one because it has a V12 ENGINE inside the front and this is not a small baby, and a big back too.

tomorrow I will make a last test rendering my car from the same angle of some reference picture so I can get a real idea of the proportions.

TRAVIS_JINX: Thanks man, I got the HDRI from this webpage: http://www.debevec.org/Probes/
this is the page from the official brazil HDRI tutorial (www.splutterfish.com). The one from the rim is "Campus at Sunset"

3DAN: as an e-type lover i really would like to have your opinion about the car proportions, so if you are there and have some free time let me know what you think

thanks guys!

[cbaristo]

well, I leave the tires a side for a while and im back to the interior.

[cbaristo]

one question, I dont know how to solve this union.
I have no pictures with this detail.

so, does anybody have an idea on how to solve this detail?

thanks in advance
cbaristo

[MariusvZyl]

Hi.
The Jaguar's looking great. Must be the first chrome badge I see that looks moulded.:D

I've mailed you some imgs on the steering assembly. I hope they help.

[Mystikos]

Wow, this is really coming along great. Love the wheels :p

[mrc64]

that very good!!!
could you do a little tutorial about how to make that nice texture on the V12 render!! :D

[sarN]

wow, how did i miss this? very sweet car! I remember in Sega GT 2002 this was one o fmy favorite cars, but i couldnt find any good places for blueprints. Anyways, its a very nice job on a very nice car. The seats look great as well. In fact everything baout it lol. I love the shift boot. The only thing that i saw I think is that the trunk looks like it had a couple of alignment issues. Anyways, keep it up, its very sweet :)

edit: heres a picture i found, it looks like its really close up to the dashboard or whatever, but ill try and find some more pictures for you

http://www.santiagosc.com/Pictures%20of%20Cars%20for%20Sale/1966%20Jaguar%20E%20type%20yellow/interior.jpg

[cbaristo]

hi guys
thanks a lot to everybody

I will post replying to everyone later because now im at work and kind of busy.

cya

[cbaristo]

mm, i allmost forgot

i found this picture floating on the internet.
i think this is interesting and can be usefull.

cya

[cbaristo]

well, one by one..

MariusvZyl:
thanks dude. Please tell me whats the meaning of "badge" because its out of my pour english dictionary. And thanks a lot for the pictures, its a big help.

Mystikos :
thanks dude, i really like the wheels too, they looks much better and more real than the originals to me.

mrc64 :
thanks man, I will post something like a small tutorial later. By now here is a small settings explanation:

its very simple, there is no trick at all. All you need is to have Vray but you can get the same results using another renderer with very similar settings.

V12 CHROME
..:: VRAY MATERIAL
........:: LIGHT GRAY DIFFUSE COLOR
........:: WITH REFLECTIONS
.............:: WITHOUT GLOSSY
.............:: WITHOUT FRESNEL
.............:: WITHOUT FALLOF MAP
........:: WITH LOW AMOUNT REGULAR NOISE BUMP MAP
.............:: VERY SMALL SIZE
.............:: HARD THRESHOLD
....................:: HIGH 0,6
....................:: LOW 0,4
........:: WITH VRAY HDRI MAP IN THE ENVIRONMENT SLOT

CAR PAINT
..:: VRAY MATERIAL
........:: DARK RED DIFFUSE COLOR
........:: WITH REFLECTIONS
.............:: WITH FRESNEL FALLOFF MAP
.............:: WITHOUT GLOSSY
........:: WITH LOW AMOUNT REGULAR NOISE BUMP MAP (EVEN LOWER THAN THE CHROME AMOUNT)
.............:: SMALL SIZE (BIGGER THAN THE CHROME)
.............:: NOT SO HARD THRESHOLD
....................:: HIGH 0,8
....................:: LOW 0,2
........:: WITH VRAY HDRI MAP IN THE ENVIRONMENT SLOT

hope helps dude.

sarnN
Hi man, its nice to see an old threedy car modeler here. I cant see the aligment issues you are talking about, please tell me where!

Thanks for the picture, it helps me a lot and gives me some new details to model too.

well, updates..

here you have another view of the interior. Now you have a complete idea.

[cbaristo]

and a mat test. those are the old tires because this is an old render. Here you have only chrome and carpaint.

[jawahar]

coming along great so far man.nice materials too:) .

[nico3d]

mmm :D it's looking better and better

I know you are in the test stage....there's still aliasing here and there and some areas look faceted....

but that's nothing serious the day you finish your model, add iterations and then go to bed to wake up a few hours later to see a wonderfully smooth Jaguar :P

wanna see more of the interior getting done !!

[MariusvZyl]

No problem man.
V12 logo =V12 badge.
Looking better and better. I dont quite think the headlight surround chrome stands out so far though. Thanks for the tyre data.

[Idan]

looks great!
thanks for showing the materials:)

keep it up

[sarN]

hey cbaristo, its really looking amazing. When i get home i will circle a couple things that i see. The things that i see are probably like present on most cars, but if ur aiming for the number one perfect top mint car model then i have like 2 things to circle maybe? Ill do it after this computer final, everyone elses computer is broken haha. Anyways, good luck! Ill also try and find more interior pictures for you

[cbaristo]

hi again

jawahar and idan:
thanks dudes
I dont have too much free time so better than make a setting description or "tut" about the materials I uploaded a zip with the complete v12 scene. There you have mats and mesh. Of course you will need vray if you wanna render it.

here is the file: www.cbaristo.com/threedy/jaguar_v12.zip (http://www.cbaristo.com/threedy/jaguar_v12.zip)

what you wont find in the zip is the hdri map, but you can download it here: http://www.debevec.org/Probes/

I insist, those mats are simple stuff, no big deal.
there is a bonus wallpaper into this zip too : )

nico:
hi bro, thanks for your comments.
yes you are right, the car has some faceted areas.
But I think increasing the iterations wont be my solution because I will over charge the mesh in other places that are ok right now. To keep the amount of mesh as low as possible is something important to me, so I will check out the car looking for those faceted areas and add some mesh there and only there.

MariusvZyl:
hi dude!, thanks for the english class!! : P
I will check that thing about the headlights it looks that you are absolutly right.

sarN
hi, Im trying to make a great car and learn a lot in the process so please be my guest, your and everybody circles are welcome here!! : P

[Idan]

a lot of thanks for the file, but you know why max makes problems with open it?

[cbaristo]

do you have max 6?
what kind of problem?
can you see the mesh?
or you just cant open it?

maybe im using diferent vray version than you.

[cbaristo]

this is an old picture.
so the headlights are just how they were in the lastest render. I think you are right MariusvZyl, i will move those chrome pieces a little bit inside the car.

[nielot007]

WOW realy very good i love that car
WOW

[cbaristo]

thanks a lot nielot007.

update...
I remade the entire thing, now it looks better to me.
I will make the screws with bump later.

cya guys.

[cbaristo]

well, here you have a couple of pictures of the interior stuff
mats and mapping are in a test stage and I found new things to model. This is how it is so far.

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last one...

[novoAlias]

nice

sweet. like sugar :p i like it. so your modelling the interior as separate objects?

[cbaristo]

thanks blackwolf,
yes, separated objects, same max file.

Each object is an entire small project.

[jawahar]

nice progression.waiting for updates.:)

[Idan]

very nice interior!, keep it up

[nico3d]

mmm nice niiiiiceee !!

[cbaristo]

well, now im going to show some exterior shots.

[cbaristo]

thanks guys,
here you have some exterior shots.
just test renders.

· the green glass is because the hdri
· all images rendered with the old tyres

[cbaristo]

another...

[cbaristo]

in this picture you will see the door problem I was talkin time ago.
The door reflections doest continue the rest of the car reflections. So there is a problem.

Ill fix it as soon as posible.

[cbaristo]

the trunk has some problems like the doors. I will completly remodel the trunk

[cbaristo]

last one for a while

[nico3d]

mmm that interior is going the perfect way !!!

the V12 on the trunk doesn't seem to be as realistic as the one in the close up shot, so you check that out cos' you don't wanna waste that beautiful piece.

And I would work a just a little bit more on the leather hood you are just a few inches away from getting it right.

[Mystikos]

this is looking really nice, and that tyre picture was really interesting, thanks

[Idan]

great pictures
I am also making the 205 with open roof, can you tell me how to get this material of the collapsible roof? I think its kind of bump map but I dont realy know which
thanks

[cbaristo]

hi Idan,
Here you have the picture I used. But I dont feel really happy about this picture (it is postproduced in photoshop) so I uploaded some photos i have with different kind of fabrics.

www.cbaristo.com/threedy/cueros.zip (http://www.cbaristo.com/threedy/cueros.zip)

cya

edit:

yes, use it as bump map.
one thing missing in my car is a correct mapping. I will map every complex piece like seats with UVW unwarp mapping. Im not good at all using this modifier and I really hate the mapping job so I will ask for help when I get there.

[Idan]

thanks for the maps

edit: I have problems with open the zip file, is it regular file?

[cbaristo]

it wasnt upladed yet.
now it is, try again

[Idan]

my outlook was open so when you posted it I immediately check it
anyway, thanks again

[cbaristo]

nico!
you are right dude, Im having some problems with vray bump mappings. The closeups works fine but when I step back a little the bump just dissapear. The v12 bump mapping is kind of small so it is comprensible, but in the headlights I used a really big bump amount and the effect is allmost unvisible when you are not rendering the detail in big.

so, i dont know.

[cbaristo]

well, looks like everybody is so busy with the new speedy challenge.

anyway I lost my free time for a while so I have to leave the jaguar a side some time. But you can send me more C&C so I will have more things to do when I get my free time back

cya.