car tutorials is there any good ones? I need some pls reply

[nightoftheroundtable]

is there any car tutorials, out on this site I need some cause I want to make cars but I dont have good tutorial to go buy. I went by the truck tutorial but I was wondering if there was any other car tutorials or just a whole site on tuts with cars, ships, space ships, etc.

[nightoftheroundtable]

please free to post any car tuts you have here or pm me some I am in need of some help.

[Stiglr]

You'll find a few of them in the 3DMax community, and although the commands may be a bit different, the same concepts apply.

do a google search, you'll find something.

[luuckyy]

http://www.3dluvr.com/content/article/84

This one seems to be a very good one, not too difficult. Check it :wink:

It starts with a box but you can start with a polyline as I've done myself.
Then it's all about extruding edges and putting them in a smart way.
Then when the whole shape of the car is done, start to modelize the details.
It's a good one.

[nightoftheroundtable]

hmmm would I be able to use the same information on that car tut with ac3d cause I notice that its mostly done in 3dsmax?

[Stiglr]

As I said, the 3D modeling concepts are pretty much the same but the "clicks" and "drags" and menu choices might be a little different. Just extrapolate them to AC3D. Don't get hung up on, "Go to Menu X and select "Name of Feature" so much, try to understand the basic concept of what primitives you're using, how you're manipulating them, and how you get them to look like a car, and not a collection of splines, boxes, cylinders and what have you.

[luuckyy]

Stiglr is absolutely right. Just extrapolate.

Don't wait for someone to write a car tut for AC3D or you will maybe wait for years :wink:

The basics are : a polyline or a rectangle --> edge extrusion --> smart edges placements --> edges extrusion --> smart edges placements ...
When the basic shape of the car is done, extrude the windows, etc ...

For AC3D you will have to use the CTRL+E command for edge extrusion, CTRL+T for snapping some vertices together if needed, ...

What I've done so far using the principles of the tut :

http://img330.imageshack.us/img330/5118/image27pe.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img419.imageshack.us/img419/5408/image13vj.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Same shape subdivided by 2 :

http://img419.imageshack.us/img419/3588/image39ym.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

It's not that hard, it just takes a lot of time.
And I've still a lot of work to do as you can see.

[nightoftheroundtable]

I dont really have that much time since I been going to college doesn't look to hard lol but It seems I have a nac for making things more complicated then what they really are.