Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Wheel Design

A first attempt at creating tread. I modeled a single row from a line. After cutting, and extruding out some polygons I copied several dozens of them and applied the bend modifier.


Several hours and headaches later I am done with the geometry . I changed my workflow a bit for the tread. Instead of creating one single row and bending it I instead, placed squares in the place of the tread I had set up on an image plane. From there I copied them, applied the bend modifier,  and mirrored them over to match. Then attached them to a tube I turbo smoothed out. A bit longer but works out better in the long run.
Final Beauty shot of my scene.