Vehicle: E46 M3

[3Dway'OLife]

I've been working on this car on and off for serveral months now. I keep getting stuck and leaving it for a while.

I've come back to it this time and really want to get the wheels right.
I've tried every modeling method but when it comes to ectruding the face it gets messy. The smoothest and most accurate face of the wheel came by lathing the basic shape and using shapemerge to cut out the gaps. This was great buy when i convert it to a mesh to extrute it becomes a complete mess.

It was all spline modeled

Any coments welcome I can see most of the errors just not got round to fixing them (or don't know how)

[3Dway'OLife]

This is the most complete model of the wheel it was spline modeled then converted to mesh and extruded

[Dug]

looks good mate.....the only thing with wheels for me is the texture makes it a little dull.....which differs from the rest of the car.

[Infex]

Looks like those months have paid off mate looks very nice indeed I did spot these errors,
#1 needs to be tighter together
#2 need to tighten to make the gap dissapear

[Silver Bullet]

Hey,

Overall, a very nice car, good curves etc. Here are a few crits
(I think i take the title as unoffical bmw crit guy so these are detailed crits)


1. Little one here, just a join problem
2. take a look, might be the angle but it looks strange
3. to much space .. close it up
4. looks like it curves in to much (might be angle)
5. looks like the wheel could come out a bit
6. look at reference shots .. needs to more of a angle
7. strange indent .. does not look like its supposted to be there.

Rims are great, just a little more shine to them and they be fine.

Lastly sorry for drawing on your car.

[3Dway'OLife]

Thanks for the crts so far, quick responce I had it on another forum had had less replys in 48hrs

The car is still in 2 parts and not connected down the middle.
I used some blueprints off the suurland site and have already made the bonnet bulge higher than them will try it higher still though.

The wheels work quite well from looking straight on but the profile is way off and I can't get a decent edge on the spokes.

Attached is an earlier render........I'm not too good at lighting, rendering and materials as you can see

[Infex]

Originally posted by 3Dway'OLife
another forum had had less replys in 48hrs

Let me guess - CGTalk, were you'd get more conversation from a dead rat that had its mouth stapled together when it was alive. I know the feeling

The material looks ok to me get the interior done and this will be finnished I think mate

[3Dway'OLife]

This is the wheel face after the the lathe and shapemerge. Basically anything I do after this makes a mess..........any ideas???

[Silver Bullet]

I think the rims look fine ... maybe a dulled down Brazil Chrome material would do ? For the yellow are above, maybe change the tire texture to a dull black, just take a defualt material and make it black and see what that looks like.

[sarN]

cant see why it would make a mess, do you chamfer those inside edges then extrude them back? nice looking model by the way, i like the paint

[slavke]

here use it as a reference

[Silver Bullet]

Hey,

Think you could post your blueprints ? I am getting ready to start a M3 CSL and i can't find any good M3 blues.

Thanks

[Aichi-Val]

impressive

[3Dway'OLife]

@Silver Bullet........My blueprints aren't very good........recently I found this pdf that contains lots of images of the M3 and the last page is the blueprints at a very, very high quality

http://www.bmw.com/generic/com/en/pr...catalogue1.pdf

Who's the wheel genious on this forum cause I want these rims to be absolutely perfect. I spent ages modeling the exact tire that comes with this car and I want beautiful Rims to set it off!!!

[Silver Bullet]

Hey,

Thanks

Ya got them, i have them at 1549 by 480 for the Side if anyone wants them. They about 500k for each (front,side,back,top)