side project

Another project:

This pic is a few days old, I have added doors, mirrors etc. since.

I like it. Looks good.

You made this in Zmod? Awesome! The only models I can make are in LDraw, but I'll (one day) be able to do that!

Yes, all in zmod.

Cool. You're good at that. I still need more pratice. How do you do that, do you just constantly reshape things and such?

Honestly I dont know, I have been practicing for over an year and this happend. I used a picture of a rescue truck in zmod to help me get the layout set up, but most of everything else was waht ever I wanted. What I do for curves is I make a bunch of flat polygons then using perspective and the side view, I slightly adjust them so they bend to make smooth curves. Youll learn if you just put time and effort into it.

You like?

Pumper 11? I like!

Actually a rescue truck mixed with a bunch of different units with ert colors, but could easily be made into pumper 11.

Wow! I wish I could figure out Zmod. What do you call the rig?

Yeah, so do I. I have it, but I need practice. How do you make like separate lines and stuff? I'll try to figure it out sometime.

That's great!!!

C. Davis wrote:Yeah, so do I. I have it, but I need practice. How do you make like separate lines and stuff? I'll try to figure it out sometime.

Separate lines?

It was originally rescue 44, will be converting to p-11.

I think he means make polygons?

Awesome, Just wondering Is the ERT Mod still going?

No one has submitted anything, and I'm not putting out an entire mod by myself. I have another one I'm doing already by myself, so I can't complete two good mods alone. If people will submit their stuff, it'll come out.

If anyone can teach me how to make models I'll make some

Me too. The tutorials are just really confusing.

Quick version, get zmod, fool around with the different buttons, see what each one does, google it if you're unsure, play around. Tis the best way to learn!

Ok, I'll try that.....Oh look, you're the MASTER OF POSTING too Burke. Guess you have no life either. I'll slow down on my posting so you could catch up lol. just joking. I was playing around with everything but it was still weird. I couldn't even make a polygon. Oh well, I'll just keep trying.

Use the tutorials as you are modeling, step by step. It took me over a year to learn to model that truck. Tutorials are the best way.

I'm admin. That's a special rank

True true. Oh well that's good too lol

DCBurke wrote:I think he means make polygons?

Yeah, that's it. I just don't know how you have like triangles and stiff in your models. I'll fool around later.

Well, first you have to create a surface.

Go:
create-
surface-
grid

Then just create surface where you want on one of the views. I help after you get that. Good luck.

Updated panel, detail, etc.

Joe, if you are interested in adding this to the ERT mod, let me know, I'll give you an email to drop this off at when it's completed (or near complete if you want some assistance finishing it) and I'll gladly include it in

Does this mean what I think it does? ill let you know when ready, same email as before or a different one?

Dang thats awesome! i have been working on an ambulance and have completed a SUV type vehicle, but i cant figure out how to UV map.

Any pics? Uv mapping is a pain, use hoppahs tutorial, read it very carefully. I still use it, just so I do it right.

I will upload sometime eventually, have to go to Neraska tomorrow for thanksgiving so will work on it then, i have been working on it, no that internet is back in my house I am planning on giving it another go for the extended weekend, the Rescue/Pumper looks GREAT!!! hopefully I will get UV mapping soon

I'll work on the lights for it if you want.

My ambulance!!! not yet done, have to fix skins (this was a practice to see if I could get it on the model), and apply "detail skins" alone with some other things. Anytips, critizisim welcome like childs?

Since the prototype will need to be added in and whatnot by me and likely tweaked, I'll do the lights for them and that if he wishes to include them in the ERT mod

Looks pretty good! If you want me to skin and UV it, I'll gladly do that for you, to take some of the work off your hands

Sure, I pm'ed ya.

Looks awesome! Good job and this is possibly the start of ERT mod!

Yeah, the models are pretty good. The pumper looks more like a rescue though, but we're getting one of those in the future, so why not have one. Still, good models!

Still wip to make it more like the actual pumper.

Little update. Added hose bed and started pump panel.

awesome detail! those hoses looked like they took forever! that looks more like a pumper but the first version looked like the Squad

Yeah that does look a lot like the pumper! The front well is looking a lot better too!

Starting to look really good! Nice work there Libor.