Double Spoke Wheel

[Aaron Moore]

Ok, well I reduced the image size above. Its about half the size now thank god. I've whiped up a quick spline outline of the tire so far... still trying to decide how i'll go about actually making it...

I think its gonna end up being polymeshed together... Anyhow heres the outline.

http://www.vi2.com/temp/outline.jpg

[Aaron Moore]

Ok, I'm getting closer with the complete spline outline... heres a shot of the viewports:

http://www.vi2.com/temp/outline2_vp.jpg

I'm not quite sure about the curvature because I don't have many refs of this wheel so if anyone can correct me now, i'd appreciate it.

[Aaron Moore]

Finally... I got the mesh working. Also I compressed some of the eairler images... here is a screen cap from the viewport. Its just a rough cut surface from using surface tools... I'm probably going to convert it into a polymesh to tweak it but I still need to fix some things in st first. C&C on the mesh so far please...

http://www.vi2.com/temp/mesh.jpg

There

[Aaron Moore]

Might look like a little backwards progress... I just spent the last who knows how long stitching all those meshes together and making sure all the edges are smooth... heres a pict...

http://www.vi2.com/temp/mesh_poly.jpg

i only modeled half the segment you see here... it was then mirrored... i just need to make copies of this and mesh them together to make my wheel whole.

I'm still tweaking but input would be appreciated.

Aaron

[Dirk_P_Ho]

Im not quite adept with spline modelling but thats looking pretty damn good!

[karabo]

I like what you have here but I think you would have had a better time if you used Rhino. Rhino is perfect for stuff like this.

[Aaron Moore]

I've always wanted to give rhino a try... Don't have the extra cash to spend right now on it... :I I'm trying to get a new comp plus the max upgrade set me back a few...

Anyhow, perhaps in the future ... I do realize that nurbes would have made this a lot easier... but in retrospect, it didn't turn out too bad in max IMO

heres a quick render.... crap texture and default lighting...

http://www.vi2.com/temp/render1.jpg

[Aaron Moore]

oop... too crappy of a texture... heres one with more metal

http://www.vi2.com/temp/render2.jpg

[Manicalavera15]

muahahahaha, i was very impressed when i saw the first image :eek:
thought was your 3D render...kind realistic one, but it s real model...hahahah


nice beginning for your modeled wheel
:cool:

[ssongro]

Looking very good indeed Aaron:) I like it a lot.

[Aaron Moore]

Manicalavera15: my final mesh should look just like it :) If i get a chance i'll try replicate that image!

Hell Render : must be from my lack of sleep :p

Not much progress just added some detials... Need to texture it soon :)

What tires should i do?

http://www.vi2.com/temp/render3.jpg

[karabo]

put in the BMW logo and it will look perfect

[Aaron Moore]

Ok here is the textured one... C&C please...

I'll start a new thread about modeling the tire part next... anyone have any suggestions for which tires I should model onto this?

Here are the final renders. Right now it takes a bit over a min to render these this

http://www.vi2.com/temp/render4.jpg

http://www.vi2.com/temp/render5.jpg

http://www.vi2.com/temp/render6.jpg

Just in case you didn't read above heres my question again :
"I'll start a new thread about modeling the tire part next... anyone have any suggestions for which tires I should model onto

[Aaron Moore]

^BUMP^

I'm still looking for what tire to model onto this wheel. Maybe one of you BMW nuts know which ones are standard... I"m looking for somewhat slim tires to fit onto this and I would like to find some reference images for that tire...

[Dirk_P_Ho]

Gotta be low-pro's!

[NemesisFIN]

Tutorial of ur tire would be nice... That is awesome model...

[cuse]

great model... would be nice to see it in action :)



cuse

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