Tires,tires,tires.....

[knight42]

http://www.knight42.fsnet.co.uk/c4d/landrover/tyretut/tyretut1.htm

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[twilight]

http://www.cartesiuscreations.com/odds/tutorials/tire_tutorial/tire.html

Here's another one.

[Brent Turbo]

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32320&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

Check this thread out, including some tire-talk, and a tire made by yours truly.

Brent

[sebek27]

Brent your tire looks awesome !! how did you make it ??

[Xilica]

hey Brent, how did you make the VW sign on the side of your tires??

thanks!!

[Brent Turbo]

Thanks, dude!

It wasn't that bad at all to make. I took a photo of a tire (can't remember which one) with a straight ahead view of the treads. I took one "segment" of the tread, the basic tread design that repeats around the tire, and modelled that with polys. Just some basic extrudes and stuff. Then I used an array to copy that around about 60 times or so. Last, I used a curve to create the side walls of the tire, and just made sure that all the tread pieces intersected that so there weren't any gaps.

I wish I could make more sense but I'm kinda tired. Feel free to ask any more questions, and check this flat shaded view....

regards,
Brent

http://brent.dreamhost.com/tire_flat.jpg

[Xilica]

i have a question brent, in the post above ^^

thanks for all the tips man :beer:

[Brent Turbo]

Xilica -> The VW sign is just a sphere, cut in half, and then squashed down a bit. There's a pretty basic reflective shader on it, and in the reflectivity channel, there's a black and white VW logo with a 2d projection -- so the reflection only shows up where the image is white. The material color was black anyway, so the rest of it just comes out a painted black color. It's just basic file texturing kinda stuff. I think the VW logo came off of an image search on google.

Does that sort it out for you?
Brent

[Xilica]

yes that clears it up :beer:

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