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tatts
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Posted: 25th Feb 2009 22:28
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The other day I was thinking about trying to write my first tutorial. I had planned to do a pickup truck from the ground up to setting it up for darkphysics. Some of the features that I had planned too add is,,,the interior, opening doors and hatch, seperate bumpers, suspension, animations...hopefully some type of collision animation...and this morning I have been contiplating on whether or not to add the engine..

Anyway, so yesturday morning I started the project.



The thing is with as much as I would like too add to this, im not sure making a tutorial would be good considering as of right now I have 149 pics leading up to this one. could pretty much create a time lapse with it. And with as much as I plan to involve with this I think it will end up well to lengthy. But at the same time I think it would give others a good insite to learning a complete process of vehicle creation. As I said I've never writen a tutorial before so not sure this is a good project to start one.
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Asteric
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Posted: 25th Feb 2009 22:33
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personally, i would like a tutorial like this

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Siddy
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Posted: 26th Feb 2009 01:12
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Maybe make a video instead? or a written tut with few pics, and supplement video's?
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BMacZero
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Posted: 26th Feb 2009 05:32
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I'd like to see this kind of tutorial - just don't make it so specific. Go through the generals of what kind of limb setup you need for a DarkPHYSICS vehicle, not just specifics of the mesh.

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tatts
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Posted: 26th Feb 2009 20:29
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@ bmaczero, perhaps your right. Maybe I'll just write a tutorial on the rigging. Or what I could do is just split it up into several parts.....And start a (tatts ts tutorials) thread...
in any case i am still modeling and taking more pics of this project.

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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 27th Feb 2009 08:45
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Building any vehicle in parts is much easier than building it from a solid mesh. If I'm not mistaken, your taking that approach. Good stuff.

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tatts
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Posted: 27th Feb 2009 19:33
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Building any vehicle in parts is much easier than building it from a solid mesh. If I'm not mistaken, your taking that approach.

Pretty much yes. the body is one mesh but the doors, mirrors, hatch, bumpers...ect are all seperate objects. I did this for a couple reasons.

#1 It is far easier to work with, #2 It is easier to uv map, #3 easier to rig and animate.....And also cause if I am to try and animate collision, It would be useless if the parts could'nt fly off the vehicle..Im still not sure how I am going to do this, but I figured that parts like the mirrors and bumper would need to be glued on.

A couple more pics. As of this point I am finished the basic structure. things left to do to the mesh now are add the suspension, some more clean up. and some more detail.



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Demon Air 3D
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Posted: 27th Feb 2009 22:38
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Make a tutorial, and the truck looks good!

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BMacZero
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Posted: 27th Feb 2009 23:52
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Dang, that's some nice modelling!

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Azunaki
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Posted: 28th Feb 2009 01:15
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that really is well done.
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Posted: 28th Feb 2009 01:26
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Very nice looking model,
Poly distribution looks good, Not sure if you needed that connection running down the side though. Awesome stuff. Make a Tutorial please!
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tatts
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2009 22:12
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I plan to complete this project! I have started over the weekend to write a tutorial for it...and so far I think it is coming along ok.
However I have spent abit of time this weekend exploring different scenerio's, on how to start the project. Although I do have pics to explain how I started the body work for the original truck shown uptop, I think it may be abit too confusing for a beginner to truely understand the techniques that I used to get it that way.
So again I spent a few hrs just playing with different ideas and the good new is, I found exactly what I was aiming for.

However there are a couple of speed bumps I have to get by. VISTA compatibility issues mainly. I may have to jump between pc's Just to work with the programs that I want too.

As far as the collision for the truck, I have been playing around with that as well. And again I think I found exactly that Idea I was looking for.....Mainly I guess my whole weekend was spent exploring new scenerio's and Ideas. Hope to have some more updated pics soon...

Also when I do post the tutorial, It will be in a new thread...One that I hope I can keep as an ongoing thread for tutorials that I write and models that will be shared to the community. I plan to write the tutorials from beginners on to more advance tutorials. More or less a spot for anyone.
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