I'm done with NURBS modeling

"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform) 02/04/2016 at 09:36 • Filed to: The fabulous misadventures of thehondabro, 3d

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At least for now. NURBS modeling is how I make my cars, and I feel like I’ve just about burned myself out with it. I’ve been doing it since May of 2014 and I’ve done countless cars using that technique and even more unfinished projects. I’ve done all I can with it. The FT50 is the culprit. I tried many, many designs until I wound up with the ones you all saw in the final renders, and it took me a long time to make.

So, if I’m going to drop NURBS modeling, that means I’ll have to pick up polygon modeling. I’ve been experimenting with that with the wheels I’ve been posting, which before, were NURBS objects. I took a head-on image of the wheel, put it in my program, and manipulated a disk polygon to make it.

But that’s easy. In football terms, that was pre-season. My goal, however, is akin to the playoffs. Cars.

I’ve tried it many times before, and a couple of the views wind up disagreeing with each other, making it very difficult to proceed. So far, only one car has gotten me forward past the front driver quarter panel: 2010 Audi A3.

Hopefully by completing this, I’ll get good enough to do more of this. A good polygon model of a car sells for upwards of $150. Ka-fucking-ching.

Anyway, that’s the state of my 3D modeling life.

If you’ve read this far, here’s an FT50.

Nibby > TheHondaBro 02/04/2016 at 09:42

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There are way too many damn 3D model formats.

TheHondaBro > Nibby 02/04/2016 at 09:46

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NOT ENOUGH*

Nibby > TheHondaBro 02/04/2016 at 09:53

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http://www.okino.com/conv/filefrmt_…

TheHondaBro > Nibby 02/04/2016 at 09:54

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Oh yeah that thing. Yeeah too many.

-this space for rent- > Nibby 02/04/2016 at 09:55

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NURBS isn’t a format. It’s a way of life.

Milky > TheHondaBro 02/04/2016 at 09:58

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Have you looked into Alias? Its what all the OEMs use.

You can get a student version for free.

TheHondaBro > Milky 02/04/2016 at 10:03

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I’ll look into that.

Future next gen S2000 owner > TheHondaBro 02/04/2016 at 10:20

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Inventor, SolidWorks, Catia. Get one of those.

TheHondaBro > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/04/2016 at 10:34

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I have Inventor and Solidworks, and those are completely different programs. Those are for engineering design, Cinema 4D is for art.

luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! > TheHondaBro 02/04/2016 at 10:42

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I found this interesting page on modeling. There might be something useful in there for you.

http://www.kastenmarine.com/why_NURBS.htm

-this space for rent- > TheHondaBro 02/04/2016 at 10:51

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Back when I lived the NURBS life with Rhino3D, I’d write scripts to generate a lot of my surfaces. Makes things easier. I was drawing airplanes though, so a little bit apple/orange.

luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! > TheHondaBro 02/04/2016 at 10:56

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I’m very well versed in SolidWorks, and tree-based parametric modeling. What you do with your car models is way outside my skill set. I don’t know how I would do anything like that with SW. The wheels, on the other hand, I could easily do with SW.

Do you have any experience with parametric modeling?

Another question: Isn’t there a way to convert a NURBS model to a polygon model? I’ve never had to do that, but it seems like it would be possible.

TheHondaBro > luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! 02/04/2016 at 10:59

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Parametric modeling is not what I do. I use Inventor and Solidworks, and they’re completely different. Cinema 4D is more focused on art.

Also, you can convert NURBS to polygon, but the result is many, many polygons.

luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! > TheHondaBro 02/04/2016 at 11:19

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Interesting software. I read some of the customer stories on the maxon.net website. For many of the physical product stories, the design was done in some other software and then imported into Cinema 4D to create videos or photo-realistic stills.

Sweet Trav > Nibby 02/04/2016 at 13:57

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.STP or bust.