Tire tread tutorial with Photoshop & 3D-Coat

[Philbert]

I was asked to explain how I did the tire tread for my Audi R8 LW model. It was done in Photoshop and 3D-Coat and exported to LightWave. So I wrote up a little PDF tutorial (with a little video help).

Here's what the finished tread looks like (with a Sub-D tire made in LW)



Attached is the tutorial and my tire photo if you don't have your own. Hope you enjoy!

[adhesiveX]

Thanks Philbert,very well done tutorial.

[probiner]

Looks very nice. Thanks for sharing.

[Philbert]

BTW guys if the final tire tread is still too high poly for you qemLOSS3 works very well for this. I reduced it from 64000 triangles to 20,000 and the detail still held up pretty well. Could probably go a little further even. I think it comes with LW now, but if not you can get it from here:
http://amber.rc.arizona.edu/lw/qemloss3.html

[probiner]

Why not apply then the same thinking you used in voxels, to model the tire in Lw, if your end objective is to have it in polygons?

[Philbert]

This just seamed faster and easier to me. *shrug*

[3djock]

Different approach anyways Phil..

[H_Molla]

Thanks

[Derrick_SA]

Nice Tut, thanks very much!

- Derrick

[Philbert]

Glad you guys like it.