smooothing out the surface

[StephanD]

Hi, I have been working on a concept model of the McLaren F1 LM for my first project, it is not an exact replica but I am trying to make it recognizable to all. The problem I am having is that my surfaces are never smooth throughout the entire body part of the car no matter how much i mess aroudn with the vertices. I am using smooth lines in 3ds max 6. Does anyone have any advise for smoothing the surfaces? I dont know if i told you everything needed or even ask a relevant question but if anyone understands and helps, thanks. BTW I am only 4 weeks old to 3d and went right into spline modeling about 2 1/2 weeks ago.

Spline cv's usually come with bias handles to adjust the surface and/or options to make them corner or smooth shaped.

You should at least give a try to polygons and subdivision surfaces.

Is there a particular reason that you need splines for?(personal,client)

[ace4016]

I picked splines because that was the simplest method of moedeling something from blueprints and refrence pictures when I started. Subdivisions doesnt sound bad from what I heard from it but I have to look more into that since i dont even know how to make a sub-D surface, I think Ill go look into it now,thanks for the recommendation.

[StephanD]

If you don't want to start over,there's alway the option of converting your existing spline network into a polygon mesh(according it has a surface from all splines).

Right click and choose Convert|Editable poly/mesh,you can continue editing and check how it looks like with a meshmooth modifier or the one built in the edit poly.

[ace4016]

I converted my model to poly and mesh and mesh seems more like the way to go but applying the meshsmooth modifier made the model look kind of like a bunch of squares and rectangles for a surface. Ive been working with splines for to long, I have no idea how to work with a mesh and polys seem to boxy, know anything that might get me started?

[47Gut]

don't forget to up the iliterations on the meshsmooth modifier or it won't do much. (not too high though - try 2)

[ace4016]

This is what the hood looks like as splines with a surface:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/dante4016/mclm_concept05.jpg



and this is what it looks like as a mesh with meshsmooth with iteration of 2:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/dante4016/mclm_concept04.jpg

Right now i dont see how peopel can make exact replicas of anthing as complicated and curvy as a car. Guess I just got to work on it a little bit more.

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