3D modelling a DC5

merlin · 13 Jun 2006 at 14:40

Some of these screenshots are taking a good few hours to render. Patience of a saint needed.

ob1 · 13 Jun 2006 at 14:46

What kind of machine does it take to render/model it

merlin · 13 Jun 2006 at 14:51

Apple Power Mac G5 2ghz dual processor running OSX 10.4, with 1.5gb of RAM, 2 x 160gb hard drives, and an ATI Radeon 9600 GPU.

Zip · 13 Jun 2006 at 14:52

Where does one accuire said software?

I have more spare time on my hands then i can poke a stick at

merlin · 13 Jun 2006 at 14:55

Zip said:
Where does one accuire said software?

I have more spare time on my hands then i can poke a stick at

£500 - http://www.luxology.com/

Zip · 13 Jun 2006 at 14:58

merlin said:
£500 - http://www.luxology.com/

Ive got a lot of spare time but not a lot of spare money

Confused · 13 Jun 2006 at 15:10

There are some freeware 3d modellers - such as (links/descriptions shamelessly stolen from another forum I frequent)

3D Modeling/Animation/etc

Caligari trueSpace 3.2 free full edition
Pretty cool 3D modeling with animation features.

Blender3D
Description taken from their website: "open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback."

Anim80r
Free 3D modeler and animator written by a guy who works at nVidia.

Wings 3D
"Wings 3D is a polygon mesh modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware."

Maya Personal edition
Nice, but leaves a massive watermark on rendered images. It still has lots of functionality of the full version though!

GMax
gmax is a free 3D modeling and animation tool based on Discreet's award-winning 3ds max.

Dup · 13 Jun 2006 at 15:13

I dabble around with 3DS Max myself, but mainly experiment with game models rather than smooth render models:

there is no spoon...

I've never attmepted something as detailed as that DC5, awesome stuff.

I have a smooth render 2006 MX5 model I started but I have run out of post/image room.

D4VE · 13 Jun 2006 at 15:20

Nice Dup.

Id be worried that the DC5 wont ever be finished because it'll get so big and complex the computer will reach its limits.
I no nothing about 3D modelling though...

merlin · 13 Jun 2006 at 15:25

You ask the software what sort of quality you want it to render so you can turn off reflections, textures, bump maps etc etc as you work with the model.

Eventually though with everything done and you want the finished article rendered properly - it'll be running overnight.

Dup · 13 Jun 2006 at 15:30

A lad over at a popular car modelling forum is creating this:

tomsullivan said:
just a render of the enigne with the turbos in, not sure if there are in the right position yet but they will be around that area.

tomsullivan said:

All this created using these specs:

tomsullivan said:
and my comp is handling it fine, ppl seem to under esstimate *** there comp can do, ive only got a p4 2.6ghz 1.2gig ram and a gf 6600 vid card, its no where near a high end comp

The model is probably over 10 - 15million pollies smoothed. It's amazing what a PC can acutally handle.

Zip · 13 Jun 2006 at 15:36

Right, whats the lowest spec that this should be attempted at?

D4VE · 13 Jun 2006 at 15:40

1.2GB of RAM, how does that work? :confused:

Like those renders also, the engine is amazing!

ob1 · 13 Jun 2006 at 15:58

I think less ram just means more paging and slower progress. The guy I brought some ram off rendered an entire dragon crawling down a castle wall with only 2gb, he had to optimise it to remove non visible parts in the end he said.

This must be where dual core really does its business, do all those free renders take advantage

Dublove · 13 Jun 2006 at 17:50

MrSix said:
That's fantastic, the render of the wheels is superb - wonder how long it took to render that model

Shouldn't take long, not in Modo 2! Probably less than a couple of minutes on an average machine. It's got a very very fast renderer.

Lashout_UK · 13 Jun 2006 at 18:08

It's got a very very fast renderer.

Not like my Alia.......Autodesk Stu...AliasStudio then

Could almost draw it faster

Dublove · 13 Jun 2006 at 18:55

Lashout_UK said:
Not like my Alia.......Autodesk Stu...AliasStudio then

Could almost draw it faster

Har har hasn't it changed hands again?

merlin · 3 Jul 2006 at 13:17

Sp00n · 3 Jul 2006 at 13:21

The front lips and the bolts on the wheels don't look right but the rest is fan-titty-tastic.

Any more views of it?

Interior?

mark66 · 3 Jul 2006 at 13:29

Wow. I think the headlights look just amazing!