This month of April i've just release my old low poly 3d work which is pretty old way back around my college days, simple poly but lots of texture work. I've just uploaded at my website (http://www.supermotoxl.com) and can be downloaded by unlock the QRCODE. The truck code named CHEETAH comes with 3 stage kit and only available for 4x4 EVO2 simulator. CHEETAH came along as same batch as DOBERMAN model the one published a month ago at 'unlock' section.
Here's the video from our Saturday noon 12.30pm play. Got both me allokitty, akiraceo, and eru in it.:
Once again we go crazy on hot Saturday noon at 12.30pm buzzing around carpark with our small scale radio control car. PSP cam onboard NANDA NRX-18 touring car belong to Akiraceo our forum Member....yup the cam is heavy so the car was not in a good balancing mode. The one chasing from behind is my modified auldey mini-monster chassis equipped with HENG LONG AM 27hz receiver, ESC-Castle Creation 1/18 SIDEWINDER MICRO brushless system 4200KV motor, TOWER PRO 9G mini servo, PN Racing bearings and aluminum gears and lots of hop ups. Turning cheap toys into expensive jewel!
As you can see NRX-18 uses Brushless system 6800KV motor value versus mini monster truck which uses 4200KV brushless motor. Both however equipped with the same ESC system: Castle Creation SIDEWINDER. Too bad i lose the race by 2 second. lucky i didn't put LIPO battery else that NRX-18 eat dust.
Today did some crazy stuff, maybe time to wreck my R/C 1/10 truggy with smoe high degree jumps. Here the video me on top from the other end controlling a truck away and hit the ramp. Dozen of jumping and bashing and stiff tough like rock! YEah my truck rocks. Another good day to spent boring evening. hee..hee... Enjoy the video
I've received special order from a person whom i knew 4 years back and he is placing an offer which i couldn't resist. We made a deal which he cash in some so i took his offer. This deal related to making some custom paint jobs and variants on X3-SIXTY and upcoming MAXXIMUS. You will see one of the MAXXIMUS variants will be a STADIUM truck much like wider wheel base and bigger wheels. As for me i have no problem since i will be making a total of 2x X3-Sixty customs and 4x MAXXIMUS customs. He knew these two new models will be spreading wild fire across the internet and time to get his advertising to work. Hey finally i got budget to upgrade my Radio Control MINI-Z......yess!!
Today i had rest enough, continue working on my pc drooling all day looking at my own truck design....."man! i've come that far for THIS!" Something in my brain tell me that's not enough! what?! ...nothing is enough. I felt like i can go something better than this. Maybe i'm too greedy bulding too much to full fill satisfaction. A design per-month was way too much in comparison to previous built. ...hmmm.. maybe that's cool idea making a new model design per-month. Well actually i do have plan to built another one..an urban SUV smooth slick LEXUS style cabin SUV. But first i must release a lowrider: "SIXTY-7" this coming end of march. Its also confirm "MAXXIMUS" will be released on end of this February while SDK package comes two days later. Mean while today i have to pack up some optional parts like wheels in zip file ready for distribution. Monday will start compile "MAXXIMUS" into 4x4evo1/2 POD format.
After 3 months!...Found it! Thanks to my buddy who manage to inform me about the last available stocks of mini 4x4 at Toys World i manage to rush to the shop after office hours and bought this cool Hummer like 4x4 mini R/C truck at only USD $13 dollars. With 2 servo action and cool suspension setup....cheap eh? Check out this clip with similar models attached on this video. For you info this mini radio control came from Hong Kong under AULDEY brand http://www.auldey.com . Actually this toys were out sold for almost 3 months but return back with less than four stocks only at our local toy shop. So me any buddy quickly grab it quick last evening. He got pimped up HILUX replica. The stocks comes with crappy controller and sticker but i stripped it off leaving it beautifully plain. Next month i'm gonna place a few cash for upgrades and performance upgrades just enough to blast some dirt on the track and do some rock crawling. With my hands holding this cool piece of hardware i forgot about 3d models work for today. Time to take a break and enjoy..
I've just made a new set of wheels for the new truck, its looks great! I've used back both meshes from old from my 2 year old wheelset tyre and outer ring and also the 6 flanged web configuration arms to hub meshes from X3-SIXTY and make it more bulk for 4x4 truck integrity. Was pretty simple work as i just recycled back the meshes did i built....a rebuilt work. Later i should settle some UV and texturing work.
To make the interior looks more attractive and industrial off-roading looks i decided to add extra poly work on floor detail. Hole drilled metal style floor panel. It looks cool!
I made a pretty quick modelling on the essential parts inside the cockpit, mainly are dashboard components made up from basic shapes starting from ovalic surface for dashboards, tubular object for gauge meters, gear sticks, pull type e-brake knobs and etc. Others are foot pedal and rear view mirror. The other detailed will be rendered in texture work.
Here's the seat design, i just wanna plain and simple to models and just looks good as stock design seat for a pickup truck style. Hoping this one uses less texture space and looks well rendered on plain DX8 style rendering in games..very at least.
Back on my on PC again! This time my i'm free from tooth ache! Thank god and the dentist! I'm woking on making some interior models of the truck. The inner cockpit, i start making wall first. I cut out the exterior door, flipped the suface in and bludge inwards to make a proper hull and interconnect with other walls inside. The panels glass position remains unchanged. The floor and wall will optimised the use of low polycount so that it wouldn't lag much in games.
This trucks comes in two option. -a. With rear bed cover/canopy with back hatches -b. without rear bed cover...just equipped with rear roll cage.
Earlier design you've seen the first option that is with rear bed cover/canopy hatch. Today another option with exposed bed equipped with rear roll cage. So i expect to have two type of truck design with 2 option.
Time is very short! i have to pump up the speed to finish up the design. Today i manage to design a more rugged appearance..macho and mad looking frontal appearance. Startup with headlights design and light case, the headlights are more mad like eye appearance much like old skool muscle trucks looks. Both top and bottom headlight are pretty similar in design except the lower ones are smaller more like act as fog lights. Headlights hull are deep inside the front case. The top hood in mid section meshes been dug out a ventilation hole direct into carburator for air intake design. I hope the new frontal design will be trademark for the next line of SupermotoXL super offroader. Well it took me more than 9 hours to think about the headlight design. That's what i get for having no blueprint to start with....everthing guided through my brain.
I've decided to design the exhaust which should be located below the front door cabin just behind the front wheel fender for easy fume exiting and more stylish muscle looks.
Building some rear appearance, did some cool "X" marking just like my previous car design to make it feels more identity to my designs, my usual popular dual lense lights and rear racing style rally canopy.
