Carrera GT

[eXe69]

Work in progress, all comments welcome

[cgvideos]

ill give ya 20 bucks for it, lol.

****** awesome, could we get a wire please

[eXe69]

I'm submiting a screenshot of the cars wireframe as requested... it's quite heavy so I just zoomed in on the rim. and give me $20 and I'll think about it. lol

[blao!]

:drool:


awsome work there :D

keep it up

[eXe69]

New render DOF in post production done in Shake using Z channel

[Kiss Csaba]

Oh my God! Oh my God! Great job, very great. Beautiful. I love it. Five stars from me...

[travis_jinx]

wow, nice job!
looks finished to me, what is left to do?

love the textures, whats the secret to such an awesome render?

[droopdog]

wow awsome, post more renders and a small tutorial for the render :p

[eXe69]

the render was done in Maya's Mental Ray using a HDRI map there are pleny of tutorials around explaining procedure I'm sure you'll be able to find some good stuff just like I did, as far as the car beeing finished there are few details such as interior to be looked after. This is what I have so far.

[eXe69]

back side

[eXe69]

some closup renders

[Buonarroti]

5 stars.....:D

[ShinDig]

Did you use blue prints on this??

The only reason i say this, is because in the first picture, the car looks alittle bit squased, i am not sure if it is the angle??

Apart from that it looks very very nice, how long has it taken you?

[eXe69]

thank you, excelent suggestion, I'll have to double check my proportions to make sure it's not squashed. I haven't been able to find any blue prints on this car but porsches website has some awesome hi-res wallpapers. a perfect side (or so I tought) and front, the top I found in google. I will post a different angle soon

[eXe69]

I am finishing the interiour but I'm about a month into the project working on it close to full time hrs.

[Silver Bullet]

Amazing work .. well done :) :eek:

[eXe69]

i'm trying to finish the door panels any input?

[eXe69]

interior

[jawahar]

nice ! :D,cant wait for updates...:D :)

[eXe69]

does anyone know a good way to texture the scratches on a brake rotor?

[eXe69]

all crits are welcome

[blao!]

Originally posted by eXe69
does anyone know a good way to texture the scratches on a brake rotor?

well i usualy create scratches by using a Grayscale-Metal bumpmap.

oh and five stars from me dude :D

great work

[eXe69]

thank you blao... I'll begin texturing soon and will give it a try

[wave]

Originally posted by eXe69
does anyone know a good way to texture the scratches on a brake rotor?

You could try creating your own bitmap like this one and apply it as a bumpmap:

http://www.wavestone.de/threats/bremsscheibentextur.jpg


It is done with Photoshop, simply by applying an "add noise" filter on the blank background - choose a mid gray for its color. The second step is to apply a rotation blur filter on the grained background. that´s it! Just play with the settings to achieve the best results....

hope you like it ;)

to the model: AWSOME!! Keep on rocking like this....


greetings,
wave

[eXe69]

Thank you wave for the picture and PS technique it's awesome :) I'll post some images of how it came out once I play around with it.

[enjoiskating543]

are the seats supposed to be that far back? normally your steering wheel is above your knees... maybe the steering wheel is to far forward. or maybe the car is supposed to be that way, just wondering

[Silver Bullet]

Hey,

LOOKING amazing :eek:

think we could get a nice wallpaper size one .. 16000x1200 ?

[novoAlias]

omg amazing work dude! :D i want that car :p

[eXe69]

Originally posted by Silver Bullet
Hey,

LOOKING amazing :eek:

think we could get a nice wallpaper size one .. 16000x1200 ?

here's the largest render I have so far... will post larger when the ride is done

[wave]

Still pretty good - I´m just a little confused about the cowl - cuz it looks like detached and not fitting properly....


greetings

wave

[-Steph-]

Great pics!
I love it.
Nice paint, nice lighting, nice model (though I agree with Wave's comment about the cowl...)

Can you give us some hints/tips for the set (lights/background/...)?

[wave]

Originally posted by -Steph-
Can you give us some hints/tips for the set (lights/background/...)?



yes! Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease :D


greetz,
wave

[eXe69]

thnx guys ... now that you mentioned it I see it as well... will fix it soon and post photos.

as far as light setup goes it's pretty basic... the scent only has two directional lights which are only casting specular highlights, one for the rims the other for the body.

the entire light and shadows are coming from an HDRI dome which is above the car with one of the downloadable HDRI probes. (there are lots of online tutorials for that stuff but let me know if you have trouble finding anthing onthis topic I'll try to help)

for mental ray I used "Production" settings with "Final Gather" turned on at 512 the frame takes about 5 min to render on a P4 1gig ram 3Gig cpu 128MB Nvidia Video Card

for the car paint shader I really toned down the reflection to eliminate the visibility of the HDRI dome and give it that studio look.

hope this helps

thnx again for all the coments, and crits

[vectorealms]

is i mentiond in other threads how do u get ur meshes so strate , mine r all over the place?

[eXe69]

Originally posted by nph_assassin
is i mentiond in other threads how do u get ur meshes so strate , mine r all over the place?

1. delete the edges in problem areas

2. deleting floating verts will result in a straight edge from pont A to B

3. align anything that needs to be aligned

4. recut faces to maintain quads

5. cross your fingers and toes hoping it will work

[vectorealms]

thx ill try some of the stuff ouit

[Tvaren]

Yeah, wow! I never really thought of eliminating the problem areas that way before. Usually I just chop em out and extrude another poly, which generally results in the same problem over and over until I just give up and start pushing vertices around. And it's so obvious, I'm ashamed I never thought of that. :o

This has to be among the nicest looking renders I've ever seen on this board. The only crit I have is that the Porsche logo looks like it's embossed just a little too much -- recommended cure would be either tone it down a little or just apply more antialiasing... great work overall!

*edit*: Oh and one more thing -- any chance of seeing an unsmoothed wire? :???:

[eXe69]

glad to be any help... here's the low poly you requested

[wave]

wow - amazingly simple - great work!

[eXe69]

I fixed the hood ... or so I think ... let me know your opinion, tnx

[eXe69]

updates on the engine, all comments welcome

[saxo_boy]

101% amazing - thats a wow = i dont have any crits - its amazing - 5 stars - keep it up - any links to ur other models?s

[saxo_boy]

101% amazing - thats a wow = i dont have any crits - its amazing - 5 stars - keep it up - any links to ur other models ?

[-Steph-]

Much better, eXe69!!

[eXe69]

Thnx Steph and saxo_boy.

As of right now I don't have any of my models online. But I will work on my site once the car is done. I never tought about giving away my models but it sounds like a great idea. I used to use 3D Max and have quite a few models saved so I'll give them away including Homer Simpson (my personal hero)

[travis_jinx]

wow, as previously mentioned... great work!
really nice renders.

[eXe69]

Thnx Travis.

I'm posting some closeup of the lights I've been trying to tweak all C&C will be apriciated.

[saxo_boy]

very nice - bags of detail. how many hours have u spent on this baby so far? and how long have u been doing modeling?

Keep it up

[Pjanssen]

Very impressive renders!
I have one comment though:
the tire-texture really needs work. It looks way too smooth and one-colored to 'feel like rubber'.

[The_Ark]

awesome car man! it looks real! i have a question for you, how did you make the shaders for the paint and the rims

[eXe69]

Originally posted by saxo_boy
very nice - bags of detail. how many hours have u spent on this baby so far? and how long have u been doing modeling?

Keep it up

Thnx.

Up to date I've spent around a 1.5 month. I've been doing modeling with max for a year and now maya for 6 months

[eXe69]

Originally posted by The_Ark
awesome car man! it looks real! i have a question for you, how did you make the shaders for the paint and the rims

thnx man.

the paint shader I downloaded from
http://www.highend3d.com/files/dl.3d?group=mayashaders&file_loc=metallic_paint_V2-v2.0-.zip&file_id=780

and with some modification I got it to look like this

as far as the rims go that is just a basic blin shader
eccentricity 0.2
roll off 1.0
spec color : white

everything else default

[Buonarroti]

Very nice.....the headlight closeup has some faceted edges..that take away from the quality a bit.....but still very impressive.

[The_Ark]

thanks for the shader info man, i appreciate it

[jawahar]

amazing work man...keep it up

[eXe69]

Originally posted by The_Ark
thanks for the shader info man, i appreciate it

no problemo dude

[eXe69]

thnx everyone I apriciate all the comments, good or bad it's all good to me, I'll update more images soon... currently working on texturing interior and soon will start to texture tires

[travis_jinx]

Thnx.

Up to date I've spent around a 1.5 month. I've been doing modeling with max for a year and now maya for 6 months

Which do you prefer, 3dsmax or maya?

I hear alot of people start off with max and then when moving to maya will never look back!!!

[eXe69]

Originally posted by travis_jinx
Thnx.

Up to date I've spent around a 1.5 month. I've been doing modeling with max for a year and now maya for 6 months

Which do you prefer, 3dsmax or maya?

I hear alot of people start off with max and then when moving to maya will never look back!!!

that is true ... I wouldn't go back to max unless I had to but I do miss it sometimes, both have advantages and strengts it's just that you'll develop a certain workflow to make the best of whatever you're using curently and any change wouldn't be welcomed. I'm sure if I was using max for six months and had to go back to maya again I'd think twice about it.

[eXe69]

does anyone know a good way to texture interior of the car in maya and get that leather look?

this is what I have so far but it's not really working well

[eXe69]

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[saxo_boy]

very very nice - great work = what a car - very good modeling - nice render - its all good - wow - 5 stars

[eXe69]

Thnx saxo boy

I'm including a shot of the interior I've been working on ... C&C are welcome

[eXe69]

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[Buonarroti]

nice but you got some serious bucket render problems goin on there.....

[eXe69]

thnx ... you're right about the bucketing problems ... here's an updated version

[eXe69]

First still shot from an annimation I'm working on.

[saxo_boy]

Awesome work - i want to do works like u.

are you going to post the animation?

[vladimirjp]

hi, good stuff.
what is your light set up, are u using MR or default renderer.
are u using GI , hpoton mapping or FG?
please explain a bit about you rendering set up. and about the last car render, it looks like a miniature car next to that little wall.

[eXe69]

you're right about the minature car ... it looks like that because I used a wrong lens so the prospective is all mesed up

as far as the setup goes

I used MR with 512 FG points... and an hdri dome, everything else I left at default.

[jawahar]

wonderful work buddy :) ,waiting for updates :)

[eXe69]

Originally posted by saxo_boy
Awesome work - i want to do works like u.

are you going to post the animation?
thnx dude

I'll post the annimation once it's done

[Morzog]

The quality of your work and attention to detail is exceptional. Thanks for the eye candy.....

[L10N]

just another flawless car... someday ill get bored with these things, since they look like photos :)

not yet tho, still staring at this one :D

[eXe69]

Thnx everyone for all your feedback. I'm posting some new camera angles from the animation.