Cars Toyota AE86

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Things are finally popping into place a bit.

EDIT:

This angle too is sensible. I wonder what exactly is off in the A pillar. I think X position. Let's see if I can fix that and maintain the above matching too...

 

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Fixes to the bumper and quarter areas. Rear is still suspect.

 

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Bumpers and rear light area mainly. The C pillars are super puzzling. Sometimes lines up, sometimes not.

 

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Little bit more making sense and I think I can move to detailing. There's probably a limit to how accurate I can make my 1st complete car mesh.

 

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Some work on the form of the front bumper. I think we're gonna go into detailing now. Just a few final checks on car shape + fix some stuff.

 

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Some more literal forms of the front grille, lights and bumper. Need to remodel the foglight cutouts in.

Figured out why the rear license plate area is fatter on all the pics than the frame is. Sneaky little plastic piece put on top. That cutout seems to be there IRL.

And bare metal frame.

EDIT: The piece is still a bit inaccurate. Hard to figure out *exactly* what thickness and form it is.

Ignore the geo, that's an S13 rear-end swap.

EDIT 2: And that's a coupe too. Very different rear frame.

EDIT 3:

Found it.

 

[Kyuubeey]

A bit ugly still but it's making sense.

 

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I'd love to spend more time to get it all very accurate, but I can honestly always redo the car in the future. I can't expect too much for my first one and you gotta just move on some time, so I guess we're full on into detailing now. The frame under is making sense with the outside, at least.

 

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Bunch of small details.

It's nice to fill panel gaps with stuff that'd really be there IRL instead of just a black plane. I'm not sure what effect it will really produce, maybe a good one, maybe not. This is the bumper holder piece, I think.

 

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Some forms inside the lights. Found an amazing ref from an acrylic Zenki Levin front headlight cover, which shows the forms very literally and clearly.

 

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Still to model the cover inside of the cover. I probably don't need to model out *everything* but it's good to have to make sure everything is correct dimensions and form. Also, some acrylic cover N2 cars I saw have more stuff visible, so might as well do it right from the get-go and not remodel much for those.

 

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Still needs a bit of proportional tweaks + one more cover inside of the big cover, between the bulb cover and the outside cover + the angle for the front, which comes last. Looking a lot more real though.

The real form is quite complex and I would model it properly if this model was for rendering, but because it's a game model...

 

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Giving a bit of depth to the rubber lining and wheel arch. I hope this + some addon parts is as detailed as it has to go.

I can't find definitive evidence of that missing piece existing in OEM headlights (Is it just a piece of cardboard?!) so I'll leave it out for now. Next would probably be up the side lights.

 

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New door, with the top part completely from scratch again. I think this is close to the true form of the door. Still need to do some minor tweaking to the center loop of the indented area, but that's easy. For the final car I might need to increase poly density of the door a bit to get that blend on the left smoother. Depends how it truly looks ingame.

 

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Start of the corner lights' trim and glass. Need to work the body a bit around that area, and model what is the very annoying plastic trim shape in more detail.

 

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Need to find a bit more clear pics to understand what's really going on there on the corners, but this is still probably more accurate than most 86 models, so...

I'd still like to have it completely transfer over to for example Kouki lights, with the different trim, with no issues at all. Assuming the frame is the same IRL.

 

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Whole bunch of small changes.

EDIT: Finally could get the headlights shorter and bonnetline lower, like they should be. My eye was telling me so, but it was being difficult to photomatch it definitely and I didn't want to just rely on my eye, so I just needed the right pictures to confirm it. Might not be exact yet, but better!

 

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Some obvious, some not-so.

No it's not an oversight.

 

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Fixes, fixes, fixes. Fixes on the rubber lining, fixes on the door, fixes on the lights, fixes on the grille...

 

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Fixes on the doors, A pillar, B pillar, hood, rubber liner, lights...

A little bit different camera position than before, to avoid some unfortunate tangents.