My Model

I thought I'd post some pics of my Model Car that's been helping me with the modelling of my z4.

It's a beautiful little signed model that was given to me as a leaving gift from my work mates at BMW for the amazing year I spent there. When it comes to detailing this model is second to none, complete with accurate interior, colapsing mechanical roof, engine, working doors and steering wheel.

This was such a nice token of appreiciation and is something that I'll always treasure.

Jack done

So the jack is done. It uses a diffuse and secular...

Jack

Here's a 'Hydraulic long floor jack' to add to my assets. Hoping to get it textured and done today. I think my asset creation for the level is coming to a close, just a lot of unreal work to do in the coming weeks

Banner complete

And flag finished. Knocked back the normals a bit and added the slogan 'Freude am Fahren' which translates roughly as Joy in Driving.

Spot the difference

So the baking went better than expected, and first time! It's pretty hard to tell the difference between them, unless of course you're looking at the wires. All it needs is to clean up the holes that it's hung from and it'll be ready to hang!

Fun with cloth...

So this afternoon I've been mucking about with the cloth modifier in max to get some good high poly versions of my banners. I've got some pretty cool (but time consuming) results out of it.

My first one on the right shows my first attempt, but after tweaking the settings and 10 or so attempts later I've got the sort of thing I want. Not too stretchy but clearly a flexable material that I want my banner to be made out of.


Next I've just got to map some designs onto it and bake down the normals to a lower poly version.

All the small things....

A couple of familiar items here to help give my desks a more 'lived in' felling. It's all about the little things...

Trolly

A trolly made out of already existing geometry and textures, just chopped and changed for a quick asset...

For your information...

Final asset for today. This is an info board used to give simple information to the drivers. I've done a load of interchangeable letters so it can be customised. Also having these spare letters piled up and scattered around will help create a bit more 'un-tidiness' in the workshop.

A dolly (I think that's what they're called). Uses the same texture and wheels as my tyre rack...

A quick cuppa...

A quick cup of tea with 3 varients. Diffuse only...

Jerry cans wrapped up

...and fini...

Jerry can low poly

Quick WiP of my jerry can. Normals baked down now, with a bit of dirt on the diffuse. Still more to do...

Jerry can high poly

A quick Jerry can high poly...

Tools

Tools, modelled and unwrapped.