Posts by VLODKOS

Life is tough when you love authenticity.

Initial mapping.

Everything else is done.

Mainly im doing all of that for my Tahoe project

Later it will be converted to 48 inch variant for sedans, gladly it is easy to do and not require many changes

But right now even when it will be finished it wont be avialiable at all until my Tahoe will be completed (Same as FS Vision, but it wasnt complete scratch, just deep remodel of 0taku's model)

At least somewhere I can look at model with the light. ZModeler is no good in that matter.

3D part is done done done!

~16500 tris

~18400 vertices

Later there will be also power line wire, so i guess it is another 500 tris ish.

Mount.

Strap (metal thing that connects roof and mount) will be adjusted in the end alongside with the lightbar, right now its just sits approximately in the position

Overall lightbar is almost ready (3d part), need to do some small things like stickers and few screws. Then mapping, drawing textures, baking, LODs.

Some small visual magic tricks to make thing look better

Wanted to attach it as a file, but that is not allowed here (shame, after ffmpeg it weighs 7mb ish, but now yt compression has joined the chat)

Had to do a little wire since you can actually see inside. Kinda bumming

Alley.

Partly Blender, mostly ZModeler 2.

3D model of Setina PB400 pushbar for my Tahoe project. Modeled by me.

upd

Phew, that's some serious image compression.

LOD0 ~4100 triangles / ~3770 vertices
LOD1 ~1800 triangles / ~1980 vertices
LOD2 162 triangles / 204 vertices

Quote from 0taku

So I had to re-template my Expedition that I have been working on and used it a chance to try and make a guide on how I make my "rainbow' templates.

I'll let it be noted I am not the best at giving instructions and I have a strong studder but this should help somewhat.

You don't need to remove the white color to add the mesh to the rainbow template.

Just open the rainbow template, create a new layer, add a white template with a mesh there, double click on a that layer and select "mix - multiply"

This way the layers will blend, there will be no white color, and the mesh will perfectly fit on the layer with the rainbow template.

It will look better, plus it is faster and easier to do.