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Want tips on car design.

PostPosted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 1:11 am
by Speedemon
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I look at all the cars people are making on automation. And they all look so freaking awesome! Then I look at my cars and wonder, "How can I make my car look interesting?".

Does anyone have tips on how to make some interesting cars?

Re: Want tips on car design.

PostPosted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 3:12 am
by Zabhawkin
All of my cars look bland. I just don't worry about it.

Re: Want tips on car design.

PostPosted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 4:46 am
by Microwave
I can't stress this enough: try overlapping grilles or try using vents for purposes other than being vents, for example I partially use the vents as headlights on most of my cars.

Re: Want tips on car design.

PostPosted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:04 am
by cpufreak101
an addition onto what microwave said, i do use vents as surrounds for headlights/taillights to give it a more "unipiece" look, and i'm probably not too qualified for assistance since i'm only just starting to improve, you can try poking around with some of the open source cars and see how they made them

Re: Want tips on car design.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2015 12:51 pm
by titleguy1
I make an "outline" of headlights with the regular rectangular headlights. I then fill it in with more rectangular headlights, and then magic happens.

Re: Want tips on car design.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2015 9:36 pm
by NormanVauxhall
Also, look at existing cars and compare to the one you made to understand the difference and the tricks to make it more realistic.

Re: Want tips on car design.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 3:54 am
by koolkei
yeah. i'm probably not cut out for giving tips. but

how i do it is usually look at a couple of actual cars from the era, try to recreate them. just to get some inspiration.

that's why...... more often then not, my design actually have some unique 'realness' to them. because they're base on real cars :D

and not original design :(