Ford Escort XR3 - 1987

[BluesManJF]

hi people!
im here again.. but now with an update..
but.. first.. let I say..
the car´s body is now corrected...
the brake(that i talked about on the last post) is now ready.. i´ll post it in a few days...
i would like any comments from you... anyone..:thumbsup:
there are a lot of things to complete the car.. but i didnt can wait to post anymore :rolleyes:
so.. hope for cristics!
thankssssssss!
*ps.. I forgot to say about the Headlights...
Its almost finished.. but they arent at this pict.
Ill put them in the next post!
http://www.artnet.com.br/~cledson/etc/esc05.jpg

[BluesManJF]

hi everybody!
so..
i have no time yet to update the car body.. but i have some new images of it..
but i think is too reflective.. and the reflection is strange..
I put a "metal" material with a falloff map(from black to white) at the difuse color and the same map at the "self ilumination".
I have a falloff map at the reflection guide and this map(that goes from black to white) has a raytrace map at the white color..
somebody can give me a tip about it?
thanks a lot!!!!

http://www.artnet.com.br/~cledson/etc/escb.jpg
and here is the same model..but with the card body material using no difuse and self ilumination maps...
http://www.artnet.com.br/~cledson/etc/escc.jpg

im not worried about the ilumination for a while, cose the model isnt finished.. and i dont have a big computer to render with everything on every time that i wanna check something..
so..
hope some posts..

[JasonA]

Its a good start on a car, but it seems rather boxey. I wish I had reference to point you too, sorry. Keep going with it, with more hardware it'll be more diversified.

[BluesManJF]

Originally posted by JasonA
Its a good start on a car, but it seems rather boxey. I wish I had reference to point you too, sorry. Keep going with it, with more hardware it'll be more diversified.
heyyyyyy
finally somebody to give me a help!
so.. what you wanna say when you sad "seems rather boxey"?
this car is my car... i dont have any blue print..
i draw it some day at the garage and start after in the computer..
i think you wanna say the the car is too hard..
but the car is like this..it doesnt have many curves.
look a picture from him
http://www.predomecar.hpg.ig.com.br/a_forde_escortxr387.jpg
(there´s only one diference between this reference and my model..
the tire... the rest is the same(ah.. except by the color- mine is white)
can you give me a help about the car body material?

[BluesManJF]

hi
there´s one more update...
i fixed the car body material...
nobody wanna give me some tip.. so i´ll continue post and trying to make it right until i get it..
http://www.artnet.com.br/~cledson/etc/esca.jpg
there isnt updates about the body.. only about the material..

[BluesManJF]

hi again..
one more little update..
i made the lights and some other little things..
ive changed the environment material but the results were bad..
look at the stranges reflections... i think its because the map is little (800x800)..
i still dont use some gi or other things like that cose my computer have only 256mb of ram... and for now the file is really hard to load!
so.. thanks a lot..
hope some posts this time!
http://www.artnet.com.br/~cledson/etc/escnovo.jpg

[anthonymcgrath]

eyup there. would have posted earlier on this one as I love xr3's but been v.busy in the offis. hey ho!

this is looking alreet. heres a few pointers I hope you'll get round to amending.

your missing doors and doorhandles!! If your modelling a modified car, then maybe you could add a door with a smoothed handle or something. check out some modmags to see what I mean. There was a sweet red n yellow escort in fast car (or might have been revs or one of the many mags on the market!) that would have given you some ideas.

your side mirrors could be amended, they look a little like a cube with a poly extrusion out the side and a bevel added. might just be the camera angle on this one tho as the mirrors are very straightforward on the escort anyway. M3 mirrors are the way to go sir! :)


Again, theres a lack of bonnet. It looks like there's no possible way to get into the engine! might wanna amend this one.

overall tho, its looking ok, but I reckon adding the finer details will certainly help.

keep working on it, I'll make sure I get round to replying!
:p

all the best,
anth
newcastle
uk

[BluesManJF]

Originally posted by anthonymcgrath
eyup there. would have posted earlier on this one as I love xr3's but been v.busy in the offis. hey ho!

this is looking alreet. heres a few pointers I hope you'll get round to amending.

your missing doors and doorhandles!! If your modelling a modified car, then maybe you could add a door with a smoothed handle or something. check out some modmags to see what I mean. There was a sweet red n yellow escort in fast car (or might have been revs or one of the many mags on the market!) that would have given you some ideas.

your side mirrors could be amended, they look a little like a cube with a poly extrusion out the side and a bevel added. might just be the camera angle on this one tho as the mirrors are very straightforward on the escort anyway. M3 mirrors are the way to go sir! :)


Again, theres a lack of bonnet. It looks like there's no possible way to get into the engine! might wanna amend this one.

overall tho, its looking ok, but I reckon adding the finer details will certainly help.

keep working on it, I'll make sure I get round to replying!
:p

all the best,
anth
newcastle
uk
HIIIIIIIIIIII
i really thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so..
let´s go..
the car is missing these things cose i still doing it..
i prefere to do the hard things first...
the mirros..
yeah
they are really bad!
i made it last night with my eyes almost closed :surprised
i need to sleep a little!
i´ll fix it latter
this car is the one that i have..
it´s white with some details in black..
the tires are modified..(as you see on the pictures)
the inside of the model is empty....
ill do this later too.
so.. im really glad that somebody give a post!
thankssssssssssssssssss!
this is my first car model.. so im keep on trying to fix until it becames good!

[anthonymcgrath]

good stuff man. keep workin on it - like I said, I'll make sure I post replies to it. I haven't modelled a motor in years and I'm really tempted to model an old modified honda Civic for a bit o fun. :bounce:

[BluesManJF]

Originally posted by anthonymcgrath
good stuff man. keep workin on it - like I said, I'll make sure I post replies to it. I haven't modelled a motor in years and I'm really tempted to model an old modified honda Civic for a bit o fun. :bounce:
yeah.. thanks again..
before i start modeling the xr3.. i was thinking about model a Chevrolet Monza - 1994

i like these "old" cars... Monza is one these i like most..
but i decided start with the escort cose i have the reference at my garage!:)
thanks!

and start your honda too!

[rrobert]

Nice 'start' but the car still looks to boxey!!

Work on that and you have a nice car! :thumbsup:

[BluesManJF]

Originally posted by Straightmark
Nice 'start' but the car still looks to boxey!!

Work on that and you have a nice car! :thumbsup:
hi
but the car is like this
give a look at the reference that i put above..
it istn smooth like new cars that we currently have
but i will give a look!
thanks for you post!

[BluesManJF]

hi everybody
so.. more updates..
i decided to change the mirros.. so they doesnt apear at this picture..
the lights..
they are black cose they are with the ID incorrect(like the oval FORD symbol at the front of the car..).. but i only saw that when the render was almost finished..
so i'll correct it later..
the question that i have is.. look at the holes at the sides of the door...
is really bad..
how can i fix that?
changing the weight of the vertices? i already try it.. but thers no much result..
so.. hope somebody to give a help..
thanks..
*ps.. i turned off all the raytraced maps at the body and window to make the render fast. If i get a way to correct the problem at the door, ill put everything again..
thanks!
http://www.artnet.com.br/~cledson/etc/e01.jpg

[gfx]

the door seams look ok to me, are you talking about the aliasing?
are your windows one piece along with the car body? maybe you should remove those faces and put in windows as seperate objects so the edges don't get smoothed and won't look so bulgy.
are you going to make the side trim too?

[BluesManJF]

Originally posted by gfx
the door seams look ok to me, are you talking about the aliasing?
are your windows one piece along with the car body? maybe you should remove those faces and put in windows as seperate objects so the edges don't get smoothed and won't look so bulgy.
are you going to make the side trim too?
yes.. im talking about it... the aliasing...
i dont know how to correct that..
yes..the windows are...
i tried to put more weight in the vertices at the corners of window.. but it seems that I only get better results when meshsmooth is set to "classic"... but if its set to classic, the rest of the car looks bad..
ill gonna make the side trim too...there are some work to do before i really finish..
thanks a lot for your help!

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