3dMax10 fun :)

[Grayeagle]

Concept inw atm ..

..Still a lot to do on it, but proportions are lookin good and makin the headers was *fun* !! .. created lines with smooth vertexes, typed in diameter of 1.75" (cause that's a good header diameter for a 426 Hemi ..turned on visible in viewport ..when they were all laid out and clear of everything, and into the 4" collector, 'create mesh' .. bingo! .. Headers

The 'proboolean' operation creating the holes in the front axle worked a heck of a lot better than booleans used to, not much cleanup afterward at all ..beveling the edges worked also

Then there was 'select edge, loop, create shape from edge' to make the cockpit liner, hood opening liners. *That* is neat, makes a tuff modeling procedure just a few clicks

-GE aka Frank

[Hajo]

GE I'd drop the headers a bit.  I'd be afraid the exhast would harm the paint...or the door hits the collector.

[Grayeagle]

Paint these days is pretty tuff Was thinkin of a stainless steel plate tho.

Door isn't anywhere near the headers as the frame is channeled ..lower edge of door is above and a bit to the right of that pix from left rear.
Carvin the louvers in the hood was fun today



-GE

[mensa180]

You use turbosmooth or a different one? 

[Grayeagle]

I havent used turbosmooth at all, or any of the smoothing modifiers.
They pretty much destroy the outline of the object I work with.

I use extended primitives to create chamfered objects, can type in how much fillet I want and such
.. those work awesome for building a model.

I usually draw an outline in side view of what I want to build using the line tool ..then just go for it.
The roadster basic body shape was pretty easy ..began with a chamfered box, applied a 4x4x4 lattice modifier, and just bent and tweaked it into the shape I wanted

The details of the model are what takes time .. lotta bits an peices in that front end based on lookin at real hot rods.
All the peices are there for a real hot rod to work

-GE aka Frank

[mensa180]

I know it will probably destroy the image of the piece, but could you apply turbosmooth to all objects in your model and post it for kicks?

I'm really new to 3Dsmax and even simple things amuse me.  I think my first half hour was spent making different shapes with boxes and then turbosmoothing them .

[Grayeagle]

-grin- .. it just blobs them out

Tell ya what .. if you really want to 'get into' Max .. get a decent book fulla tutorials, go thru em step by step.
They show you what the tools can do, then imagination takes over. I do a tutorial and next thing I know I am foolin around with makin shapes from edges (the rubber and chrome trim bits on the roadster) .. on the vette I even have the steering wheel turning the front wheels .. and vice versa .. fun with controllers

-Frank aka GE (has barely scratched the surface .. even made a button that applies alla controllers to an object ..Max script *rocks*)

[Grayeagle]

Fun with layers in photoshop

-GE

[Grayeagle]

Lense effects to add a bit of sparkly .. more detail on the motor, the throttle linkage actually works usin the 'bones' system to open the butterflies

-GE aka Frank

[Grayeagle]

Todays desktop

More detail in the Hemi, remade the blower belt usin a spline for main belt shape and belt teeth constrained to follow the path
*bingo* ..animated belt

-GE aka Frank

[Grayeagle]

Todays desktop
A lil photoshop sparkly and I removed the rear fenders ..just dint fit the hiboy look I am after

Mebbe motorcycle style fenders?

-GE aka Frank

[mensa180]

looking great

[Grayeagle]

Faces in Max10 depend on reference, just as any other modeling project

(My son Eric ..'e's a bit of a hairball like his dad

-Frank aka GE

[mensa180]

So you took profile and front/back shots or?   How did you get them to scale/line up correctly?  That would have to be some precise cropping.

[Grayeagle]

The beauty of Max is there is always more than one way to do something

Max has a Viewport display option setup that kinda goes like this:
Select Front viewport
Display Background
File: browse and <select image>
Match Bitmap
Lock pan and zoom

Or .. the way I did it

I mapped a planar object with UV coordinates
    match bitmap selected and scaled for fit
Applied the front face shot to it as a diffuse color bitmap
Went to object properties and turned off 'receieve shadows'

Same for side view.

Same way I do a plane, etc.
A good template makes it easier by far.
You can flip thru the views without worrying about 'losing' or fighting with your front background view,
full screen viewport all the way, even perspective views.. no problem.

-Frank aka GE