Amilcar C6 WIP

[Szymon Kubicki]

Here are some screenshots of my current work in progress, a high poly Amilcar C6 from 1928. The aim is to create an impression of a barn find, dusty & rusty - we'll see how it pans out (for now I'm just using some generic bump and roughness maps, but final texturing will probably be done in Substance Painter). The geometry is 95% ready and it's mostly unwrapped. I'd like use this model to learn rigging, so it'll add to the time needed to finish it, but still I think November / December is realistic. With heavy texturing, it could be a nice object to play with in OBJ Reader.

[Patrice Terrier]

Astonishing work Szymon, it looks very promising, shall be probably one of your greatest model !!!

Thank you for giving me the chance to see it first !

[Szymon Kubicki]

Hello!
The Amilcar will soon be rendered in a high poly form - I'm working on the shaders and lighting now. Trying to decide whether bright background works better than dark.
However, there are still some modeling bugs that I need to fix before final rendering...

[Patrice Terrier]

In my opinion the brighter mode would help to better see the details.

How large is the current 3D file (blend, c4d, fbx), and how many vertices, indices, meshes in it ?

Thank you for the preview!

[Szymon Kubicki]

Thank you for your suggestion!
The C4D file is 287 MB, a bit over 2,7 mln vertices. I expect the mid poly version to end up around 300k verts.

[Patrice Terrier]

The high poly works just fine in OR, however i have to make several changes to the C4D project in order to convert the missing corona materials into OR textures.

I am using this link to better figure what to do:
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20099/lot/220/

The current size of the OR .obj file is 597 Mb, with 60 meshes and 60 materials.

Here is a rough screenshot of what i have done so far.

[Szymon Kubicki]

Looking good! It's awesome how OR manages to cope with such a polygon count.

[Patrice Terrier]

Your Amilcar is not a problem for OR (i have much larger model), it can render it in animated mode at 75 FPS.

Your model meshes are absolutly perfect, and after merging them i only found 2 normal errors to fix.

See the attached screenshots with my custom texture set.

[Szymon Kubicki]

Gorgeous ! Now I think I should have made the rear end of drivetrain, at least the differential, to make the model look more complete internally...
I see that you have placed the color logo on the tire sidewall at the same spot as the embossed logo - that makes sense, although in reality they are in different places (and to be honest the embossed sign that I placed on the displacement map should be different from the color logo, but I have not found sufficient reference pictures of it, unfortunately).

75 FPS ! This sounds like a dream (I am comparing it to 5 hours per image that I was getting from Corona and my CPU). Incredibly impressive, really.

Big thanks for sharing your results !

[Patrice Terrier]

Szymon

Here is a quick video using lighting animation to better see the OR real time ambient occlusion in action.

watch real time video

[Szymon Kubicki]

Thank you !
Very satisfying to watch

[Patrice Terrier]

BTW about the tires, i have removed the flat part, to allow individual mesh rotation if ever we decide to put a pilot in the car .

[Szymon Kubicki]

if ever we decide to put a pilot in the car .

That is an interesting idea (although admittedly challenging).

I have just seen the final images of the PLEXI project - I love the x-ray effect !

[Szymon Kubicki]

Thank you, I will gladly have a look !

Have a nice day

[Szymon Kubicki]

It is very interesting for me to see the modifications you have made to the model - thank you for sharing !
I loaded it into ObjReader and it works perfectly well, I like the result