From: bayard To: CATI Cc: Bob Gruen ; 3D Studio MAX Mailing List <3DSMAX@engram.net> Subject: Re: Advice modeling a car in Max 2.5 Date: Monday, April 03, 2000 11:42 AM I wouldn't go that far.... I have seem some mighty sweet models of cars from max... After starting to learn Maya... I would say it is just allot of work no matter what package you use... The first thing you have to do is to plan out ahead of time more or less every move you are going to make, if you are going to use nurbs... you need to plan every curve, draw them on your reference, import your reference and stick to it... b CATI wrote: > Bob: > > I hate to say this, but MAX may not be the best tool for modeling a car.... > > In case you hadn't noticed, Detroit carmakers use CAD of all types, rather > than a general-purpose rendering & animation package like MAX. You simply > can't get the same level of control with MAX as you can with, say, AutoCAD, as > they're made for different (but complementary) purposes. > > A plugin like Rhino will help a lot for an "organic" look, but for accurate > swept > surfaces, I think AutoCAD would be your best bet at this point, Bob. > > Aloha! > > Ken > ********* > At 12:28 PM 04/03/2000 -0400, Bob Gruen wrote: > >I would like to create a mesh model of a car (Pontiac TransAm) in Max > >2.5. I was wondering if anyone could offer suggestions as to the best > >method to accomplish this or any tip that I could use along the way. > > > >I started by getting many images to look at and use as backgrounds in my > >viewports and by getting measurements to use. Then I traced a spline > >around the outline of the car from the side to form a profile which I > >extruded. I then applied a FFD Box 4x4x4 to the mesh and used that to > >shape the car a bit. > > > >I am kind of at a loss for what to do here... I have flat sides since > >I extruded a flat spline. I applied a MeshSmooth and it really made it > >look bad... Have I gone the wrong design route altogether? Should I go > >with what I have and extrude the sides, scale them down and repeat to > >get a smoother curved side surface? > > > >Any advice, comments or thoughts would be highly appreciated. > > > >Thanks! > >Bob > > Ken Goldstein, Ph.D. > Executive Vice President > Autodesk Area Education Representative - Hawaii/South Pacific > ************************************************************************** > Computer-Aided Technologies International, Inc. > 47-396 Kamehameha Highway > Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744-4736 > (808) 521-2259 http://catii.com > ************************************************************************** > > -- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: > http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX > List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net -- bayard Fish Bone Lodge Animation, Illustration, Design and Multimedia Production 5 Star Cuisine, Cocktails and Dancing Nightly http://www.mindspring.com/~fishbone-lodge/ -- Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net