_Hover/ WIP

#50

Thank you Rafael! Valeu cara! ehehe… :stuck_out_tongue:

The door system will be my next step. The glass dome opens up and the doors (there will be doors!) will follow it. hmmm… it’s hard to explain… You will see it latter.

About the feet, I think I will stick with those. But in the end I will take a look at the all thing to check how everything fits together.

Actually I though of making a cargo truck using a similar design! I will see that latter. There’s so much to do yet! :surprised

@Ian and Riccardo:

Here’s the nodes for the lights glass (taillight in this case) in the top node editor and the carpaint in the bottom.

I separate things in the carpaint with labeled frames so it is easier to follow.
If you got any questions just ask!

#51

Thanks man much appreciated, this will definitely come in handy for a small side project I have planned.

Cheers :wink:

#52

ok ok ok…

What you guys think about this door mechanism?
I like it but probably will try different designs…

//youtu.be/Lp9jcwzqlWc

#53

I’m interested in seeing how you plan on attaching the doors to the glass dome that goes up. Right now it feels very odd to see the doors floating besides the glass.

#54

ehehehe… I know what you mean Puck!

It looks odd. Let me try to explain…

The dome is attached to the main body with some moving rods (I bet this is not how it’s called) and the top side of the door will have some kind of rolling mechanism that first will move the door out and then up.

The thing is, I don’t want to model that until I’m sure this is the design I want.

#55

I found it very interesting the door sistem you have. I think that the same mechanism of the feet will do to explain the door going up.

#56

Great work man!
I really enjoyed the evolution of the concept and of the model.
I think the color of the headlight its great, I think blue is too obivious for futuristic and you made it looks less common.
As animator I do think the supports are too simple and too fragil.
And the roof opening takes of the magic… I suggest you to make the door with a combination of actual door and some nice-shape-cut-off glass of the roof.

Great work! I will follow it too!

#57

Oi Fernando!

I’m glad you like it.

Yes… you’re not the first one to mention the fragile look of the landing gear… I will rethink it.

I’m not happy about the door also. I already thought about that cut glass idea and I will try that.

At the moment my time is very limited but I will try to make some changes soon.

Valeu! :thumbsup:

#58

I will use a particle system to scatter some very little squares (the metal flakes) with some random rotation in a square plane and bake a normal map out of it.

Clever Idea! I can’t wait to see how it will look like, nice idea to map the voronoi texture with a binary ramp too (If i well interpreted the node tree).

Thanks for sharing your techniques!

#59

fantastic work man! I like the overall cleanness! looking forward to more images :slight_smile:

#60

You’re welcome Riccardo! I think sharing is a good way to think about our workflows and to get opinions on how to improve.

I will share the technic more in depth once I get it right.

That ramp is just pushing the blacks and whites and getting rid of the grey part so the black affects one shader and the white affects another.

@Jonathan: Thank you! You are very kind. I don’t have much time at the moment but maybe latter this week I can post an update. Hopefully…

#61

Good stuff. will keep an eye here.

#62

Thank you Sinhead!
I will try to make some time to continue this project.

#63

great work ,

just i think that directional light maybe different than existing in our time and you need to find some thing who tell us that this hover have new technology , would like to see some great idea and i think you will find some think better , i will follow this post because in the end i wills see an very original work .

good luck .

#64

Thank you for you kind words Khaled!

I will do my best.

#65

After all this time here’s a new something…

Working on the seats:

#66

Cool design. Glad too see you back working on this Ricardo. :thumbsup:

#67

Back on work on this project Ricardo? Nice seats, I’m courious to see how the interior will look like! Good job so far!

#68

…in a galaxy not so far away…

UPDATE!!

Boy it’s been a long time since my last post…
Thank you for caring Ian and Riccardo!

I wish day were 48h long… they aren’t…

Anyway, I have the seats pretty finished. Only need to tweak the shaders and figure out how to attach it to the car.

Well… I wish you a very happy Christmas and a hell (in a good way…) of a new year!!

Here’s the render:

Click it to see it bigger…

#69

Here’s a material update and some small tweaks on the shapes: