New project - Audi S4 Competition

[Justin Martin]

http://pitstop.totalnfs.net/pics/audis4_1t.jpg (http://pitstop.totalnfs.net/pics/audis4_1.jpg)

http://pitstop.totalnfs.net/pics/audis4_2t.jpg (http://pitstop.totalnfs.net/pics/audis4_2.jpg)

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Here it is, my latest project; project "Bell". For those of you who haven't guessed already, this is the Audi S4 Competition that Derek Bell drives in the SCCA GT Championship. I've always loved Audis, and modeled more of them than any other marque, and this particular car is one of my favs, it's a great race car and has a super cool paint scheme to boot.

Anyway, mesh wise it still needs some odd and end details like a underbody, exhaust pipe, and wipers, and alot of normals work. Right now, it is a bit under 3100 polys, I think that by the time I make a interior and wheels, it'll be roughly 6500 to 7000 polys. It's a bit more than i'd like, but the wheels this car has are very complex and I suspect it'll take something like 600+ polys to model them nicely. :(


Here's a couple of pics of the real car:

http://pitstop.totalnfs.net/pics/bells41.jpg - 2002 paint scheme (red hood, new Speed Channel logo)
http://pitstop.totalnfs.net/pics/bells42.jpg - 2001 paint scheme (silver hood, old Speedvision logo)

[Radical-Al]

I've seen an Audi S4 before, nice car, it was black. That would be so cool if you could try to make a decent underbody, help the cars detail, instead of the normal default one of EAs.

[Justin Martin]

Well, 3d underbodies are a waste of polies except in a few cases (like trucks & hotrods) because you can't see them. It'll have a 2d underbody perhaps with a simple underbody texture. I never saw the need for fancy underbodies, you never see them unless you roll, something that isn't going to happen very often in a game like Racer. My 914, along with many other Racer cars (including uber-modeler Stecki's) just has a plain black underbody, which i've never seen in game because i've never rolled.

[VQ]

WOW! that is incredibly good!