Looking sweeter by the minute 

Looking great Sunny. After completing the offroad project I learned that the most simple setup is the best setup. If your car is made of up several skin meshes, take a look at it and look to find a way to combine as many as you can into one. If you can get away using the car object as your visual wheels as well, that will save 4 dynamic links if you were to link 4 skinmesh's to the wheels of that car.

Just a few tips that might help you along

Mike

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WOW,Good Job!!

AWESOMEEE

Hi,

Updates : -

So, I've been working on the texturing phase, the ambient occlusion passes have worked really well, and will be combined ( multiplied in a photoshop layer ) with the final diffuse texture at the last stage, here you can see the Ambient Occlusion pass in it's raw state : -



Once combined with the diffuse, I'm sure it will really help sell the material.

I've had some trouble developing good normal maps within Maya due to the hard edges involved around the tyre rims, and so, have had to tweak many times before finding something I was remotely happy with, I've yet to test them ingame ( to see if 3drad likes them, and to make sure none of the rgb channels need to be flipped to display correctly ), in maya, so far, they display correctly : -



I think my next update here will probably be the final textured model inside 3DRad with env. mapping enabled and the smooth / glossiness shaders applied throughout.

sexy model. how much is it to get the software needed and how do you get the  smooth effect

Amazing! 

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