AC Cobra 427
 

I just had to try making a AC Shelby Cobra 427

Looking mighty fine so far! keep up the good work mate!

//Matt

Here is my version of the original vintage Cobra rim.I think lightning is difficult. I tried the Philip/McLaren-wheel upset and David Mitchell's 4-point lights, but I'm NOT satisfied. Good light-rig advices are welcome!!!

...and from another angle. I used the HDR beach-probe pic in Image World and no radiosity.

... and the wireframe

It looks great and BTW what mathod did you use. Splines or polys?

For the car I used splines and for the rim I used bevel (just like Philip in the McLaren-tutorial. But now I try to build the car once more using poly-by-poly.

...and it neeeds pipes. This is a FPrime render.

Nice and clean!~

hey...very very nice !...keep going ! and keep posting !

Yep, very nice indeed.

I've got BIG problem! When "trying" to import the whole car into Layout, it crashes.I found out it had nearly large 130 000 polys!! And 110 000 came from the wheels ! Now I'm rather satisfied with the rims. Is there a way to reduce the rim polys or must I remodel them ? (They don't have to be that detailed when viewing from a distant, do they?)

Try this....Save each wheel to a different .lwo file
When you open Layout load each .lwo file at seperate times so that your PC doesn't overload.

Once that loads (if it does, cuz it should) go into every viewport and make the Maximum Render Level as Bounding Boxes.
You can find this by clicking on the triangle next to the type of viewport you want.

This way your Layout is not bogged down when you rotate/scale/size your object in the scene.

Hope this helps...

this is a very impressive model m8 ! (wire looks v.clean)

Its gettin me in the mood,, i really want to start a car over the summer....

Looking forward to updates :beer:

For a sub-d model that way to dense (rims). You can get away with a lot less polys than that and still maintain the exact same shape. You could set the subpatch render lvl for the tires to something very small like 2 since they are very dense you don't need to have it high.

Probably could use Bandglue in a bunch of areas.

The car doesnt look very dense but those rims are heavy. Defiantly need to trim those down. Try setting the subpatch lvl for the rims to something small.

Thanks for wise words . I'm try dividing the model into different parts as you said- exciting to try that!! But will adding more RAM help me? ) I have Pentium 4 3,0 and 2x512 TWIN MOS Ram. Can I add 2x 1024 ??? Somebody told me that the RAMs should be of the same (size or brand...?).

If you have the money then yea you should upgrade with 2x 1024 MB.
Don't buy more than that unless you have a Dual Core Processor...
And yea make sure the Ram is of the same brand/size this way your PC only has one type of RAM to register (confusing? it is for me too)(and unfortunately i have 1x512 and 1x1024 and its not as fast as i would have liked it to be...)

And now an end to the blabber and cheers with the Rending :D

It worked loading the wheels one by one. But setting up lights is hard. This render is done with 2 area lights. But the front wheel rim is too bright, I don't know why.

If their are 2 lights pointing on that front wheel, it is possible it will be too bright. Maybe lower the opacity of the lights???


Nice work, but your car is not standing on the ground. Look at the wheels reflection :p

Well it's just a test render so it's not a problem i think

I can't spot any errors (then again, I'm a new to Lightwave), but I have to say, excellent job.

Cool looking Model. Good jod on the spline work. wish I had a real one :). the lighting issue also could be from the surface setting of the rim. Check the Luminosity and reflection settings. If you add shaders, than check them too.

Keep up the great work.

Cheers

I'm beginning to see an finish of this project. This is a FPrime render.

and from the back.

Interior

and side...

Hi Bjorn,

That really is some nice work you,ve done there.

Ribs.

WOW, great job. FPrime really sure speeds up the work progress... I see the side grill still needs work, but I am sure you have some more updates coming??

:attn:

Cheers :beer: