Nissan Z
 

Just like Saloman i am now starting to model my own nissan z. im not far into it only a part of framework so far. Those NewTek tutorials really help although philips are much better cuz he explains them...anyway here are some snapshots of what i have so far !

the download is too big scratch that here is a jpeg of it

looking very nice r4s1n, keep it up and keep us posted on your progress!

here is a small update added some more on the back, made the lights in front and changed the color :)

another update: finished bumper in the back added color to lights and made the liscence plate indentation

added windows-added bottom of car-car tag or something in front-
post comments or suggestions on what i should change

All looking good so far...

another small update: the side mirrors

forgot hte attachment

since nobody comments this post i declare this a dead link......R.I.P.

Hey, we're lookin at it. Go look at my battle; almost looks like a one man website. Watch the hits. Keep a-goin.

i wish i could battle someone but i only got lightwave like 2 months ago...plus i am a student and i have to go to school everyday. i hope its an awesome battle u and digi..... u know i wonder what happened to phillip and Mr. Gray???

Heh ... between his paying work, running this site, playing with his new bike and blowing up his computer kit I suspect he hasn't had too much time to complete it ... (Plus it was created in Maya - Yeuch!!) :D :D

ah i might as well update sometimes
hope fully more people will comment...but what do i care

Looking good so far. One thing you may want to take a look at is the lower parts of the rear fender. It looks from the screenshots as though there could be some lumpiness in the mesh there that may want to be smoothed out a little.

To check how smooth the mesh is, try adding a reasonably high specularity to the object surface. That way, you can rotate it in modeller and spot the areas that may not be as smooth as they should more easily.

Nice progress, its looking very good so far.

I've never tried car modelling myself but for a guy who has only had Lightwave for a brief period, this is looking excellent. Hah - took me ages to figure out what I was doing with LW. Looks good so far. Is this a spline based model you're doing here? Not so sure about the colour scheme at the moment though. Makes it look like its made out of plastacine, but its still early days for textures.

to Fallenswordsman: i have no clue how to work with splines and i cant find any tutes on how to use them (although the vip sections has them).

if anybody knows of tutes about splines then you're more than welcome to post them here.

If anything there is another forum question that i raised that nobody seems to answer....if anything please respond to it because i cant really move on in the car modeling project

http://forum.simplylightwave.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1131

the link seems to be messes up too many https
http://forum.simplylightwave.com/sho...&threadid=1131

R4s1n -

http://www.lwg3d.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14554

That should give you a good idea of how to make cars using splines. Lewis, the author of the tutorial is pretty reknowned in the Lightwave circles for his car models as you might have seen if you look in the galleries here. Its pretty much a step-by-step tutorial he's got there. The only other spline tutorial I can think of is from SplineGod but his web site seems to be down at the moment. Best of luck

that is a long tutorial.
hopefully it'll teach me somthing

Oh yeh, the other tutorial at LWG for car building is here:

http://www.lwg3d.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14472

Might be more to your style of modelling, I don't know. Yes, these tutorials are long, but don't be discouraged. When making something as complex as a car, I think its best if tutorial writers give as much detail as possible rather than skipping over bits which you'll be wondering about or getting stuck on.

R4s1n

Good start! Keep up the GOOD work!
:) :) :)