[Tea_Bag]

Then I bought MOI and downloaded Rhino for Mac.
It's amazing how time modeling (for certain models) is reduced to 10 and with precision!

Yes It is amazing the speed difference!

[Tok_Tok]

@Tok_Tok - What do you currently model with? Solidworks is fun to work with it can get tricky when working with surfaces but once you get the hang of it there is no turning back! Nico has done some great projects using Solidworks! Most of my work is modeled using soliworks! or packages with a similar feel like Pro Engineer, Autodesk Inventor etc! (Solidworks comes out on top for me) but at some point id like to try modo401

Well since its next year you'll be attending Design Academy Eindhoven Id suggest you google Solidworks SDK (Student Design Kit) as sometimes you can get a few months trial to use. You'll be ahead of the game then!

Well i'm currently all over 3Ds Max. Great program(!) but, and this is typically autodesk, you need plugins if you really want quality. So also the NURBS are not very good. I think i'll learn using
them when i start at the Design Academy.

Yes i remember Nico did Wall-e using Solidworks, and i saw his Fiat, great work!

I had modo installed, but never took the efford to start, i still got that feeling it such amazing software!

Thank you for the input

@David
Must be great to be able to choose between the best way of modeling. Some things are almost impossible to model with Poly's, and the other way around.

This is another update, i changed some maps with the ones from David's pack and used his Rim material, i think the base rubber is still to light:

[Tea_Bag]

Your update has an element of realism to it! The lightness of the rubber id say looks good too! its more the rubber look that needs tweaking as it gives the appearance of a greasy plastic. Try playing with the R2 settings!

This explains the R2 settings if you don't already know

http://think.maxwellrender.com/the_bsdf ... p=1&lang=0

[Tok_Tok]

I used it very lightly. It's almost invisble, i'll increase it.

No i didn't know it in that detail, thanx for the link.

Btw are you going to post your material on the MXM site too? Would be a good addition.

[Tea_Bag]

Yip ill be posting my material on the MXM soon!

[Tea_Bag]

Material Uploaded to MXM Gallery
Material might need tweaking depending on your lighting - IBL seems to work pretty good!

Enjoy!

[David Solito]

Thank you Tea_Bag.
Your material construction is clever. Well done!

David

[Tea_Bag]

Thanks David!

[Tok_Tok]

I also uploaded my material to the MXM gallery, it should be up tomorrow, i hope

After some last finetuning this is the final material:

[Maximus3D]

That's looking very good now Tok Tok!

/ Max

[Aniki]

for now, I would just check the normal map, so the goodyear logo etc is readable

else is fine.

cheers

Aniki

[David Solito]

I am not sure for the normal map. Juste make a rotation of the projection
Tok_Tok: Very well done. I am excited to see further now.

d.

[Tok_Tok]

Thank you Max!!
Thank you David!!

Always motivating to hear compliments!

@Aniki
Oops it's still mirrored.. Forgot to change that

It's no normal map, i used a bump map, but later on i used the bump map as a displacement map. The result looks a little bit better.

[Aniki]

well I think for the effect a normal map will be perfect, and render much faster than displacement. Your call

cheers

Aniki

[Tea_Bag]

Much much much better! I really like your material! - I'm working on an alloy material but David's one is a touch one to improve! as its already so good!
so I might go down the traditional allow look http://www.alloywheelspin.co.uk/ekmps/s ... s-89-p.jpg