thanks

as for the purpose of doin this i really just wanted somethign to challange me in 3d modeling, buts kinda grown in scale and ppl are taking interest in it

i also have big planes for the engine if i can get everythign organised with pictures and stuff, also if anyone knows of good sites with good pics of the kinda products in Scott engine it would help a lot :)

thanks
Tom

Tom is looking for hi res pictures of cranks, rods and pistons, etc. I don't have any of them on my computer... Hey Jody... :unibrow:

Hey Tom,

That stuff looks great. I'm a post editor that has grown into 3D animation over the last 5 years or so. I mostly do a lot of logo or straight motion graphic work, but I did just finish a ton of virtual set stuff for the Florida Lottery.

Anyway, modeling is where I'm the weakest. Are you box/spline modeling or something more advanced??? Self taught or did you get some schooling? I'm jeleous of your detail :thumbsup:

I use 3ds max by the way...

Jason

hi Jason, good to see some interest from a user of max

i would say about 90% of the modeling done so far is box-modeling, the rest was done with splines, if i remember right the springs, and the faceplate for the wheel, also the top seal for the gearbox was done with it, i use it a lot when u have a squarish object and then u have semi circles on the side of them, because the other way of doin it is boolean and that a terible tool.

i self taught myself for the first year or so and then found this great site http://www.3d-palace.com/ there are some free tuts there but the best one u ahve to buy i have brought 2 of them (the matrix apu one and the firefly one) and if u cna complete them u will have the skill to do anythign really.

btw i also did some more work

http://img476.imageshack.us/img476/6...er019lb.th.jpg

http://img476.imageshack.us/img476/6...or015ow.th.jpg

http://img476.imageshack.us/img476/8...or020ox.th.jpg

bascily done the intercooler and the radiator

and thanks for the comment jason :)

hope u like them

Thanks for the reply Tom!

3D palace looks like a cool site, I'll check out those tutorials. I go to http://forums.cgsociety.org/ for a lot of info...in reality, I know there's a ton of good tutorials on the net. It's just committing myself to sitting down and learning :)

So I need to get better at modeling...but I also want to learn Mental Ray...and I just got an upgrade to Combustion for compositing...and I need to start figuring out some High Def stuff for a future project...ugg the list just goes on and on...

Jason

yeah teh list always grows mine is manly improving my 2d skill( i have none atm)

just did a render with everything together, and as u can see i start on the engine

http://img492.imageshack.us/img492/8...ther1qs.th.jpg

here a closer render of the engine

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/4536/jg5pg.th.jpg

thanks
Tom

hi all

i thought i would just show u wats been happening the past coupld of weeks

Scott has been updating the page reguraly but i thought i should post them here for u.

http://www.lateral-g.org/rendition/3Dmodel/Crank_01.jpg

http://www.lateral-g.org/rendition/3...pistons_01.jpg

http://www.lateral-g.org/rendition/3...block_view.jpg

http://www.lateral-g.org/rendition/3Dmodel/assy1a.jpg

iam sure that everyone of you could find many mechanial probs with the crank and pistons but to the untrained eye i can get away with it :)

Color really makes it pop:

http://www.lateral-g.org/rendition/3...colorframe.jpg

Yes it does, very slick! :hail:

That's cool! I think Tom needs to start rendering project cars.