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low-poly cars

Post by lape » Sat Jul 20, 2013 3:21 am

I'm in need of some cars that I can use for an exterior rendering. I have some good models from Dosch, but when I import these 3ds to SketchUp, they have a file size about 50MB. This will make it impossible to work with the file if I use 4-5 cars.

Does anybody know where I can buy some cars of good quality, but lowpoly? The cars I get from 3dwarehouse are looking quite bad....

I already thought about using an obj as external mesh, but this will be far too much work, scaling, naming materials etc. Any solution for this?
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Re: low-poly cars

Post by zeitmeister » Sun Jul 21, 2013 3:56 am

Did you check out the Dosch Car Bundles?
http://doschdesign.com/
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Re: low-poly cars

Post by lape » Sun Jul 21, 2013 8:45 pm

I know there are some low poly cars from dosch, but it is only sold as bundle, which is quite expensive. And there is no sample, so i don't know if these are good.
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Re: low-poly cars

Post by zeitmeister » Sun Jul 21, 2013 10:07 pm

Samples:
"http://www.doschdesign.com/samples.php"

119,- Euros for 15 actual cars? I think that is okay...

And for free; did you look here?
"http://www.dmi-3d.net/"
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Re: low-poly cars

Post by Pibuz » Mon Jul 22, 2013 9:32 pm

Wonderful! How did you know that!!

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Re: low-poly cars

Post by lape » Mon Jul 22, 2013 11:11 pm

Can't find a sample of the dosch lowpoly cars...

Is there an importer for lwo-files to get them into sketchup?
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Re: low-poly cars

Post by Pibuz » Mon Jul 22, 2013 11:53 pm

..that's exactly what I was just wondering...

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Re: low-poly cars

Post by zeitmeister » Tue Jul 23, 2013 1:56 am

Blender should import Lightwave...
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Re: low-poly cars

Post by wojtek-w » Tue Jul 23, 2013 8:38 am

hi,
IMHO many of sketchup (3dwarehouse) cars are ok - especially when You need them as additional object (f.e. for archviz). They just need little bit of material tuning. This mini cooper weighs about 8MB.
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3dwarehouse cooper about 8MB skp file

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Re: low-poly cars

Post by CTZn » Tue Jul 23, 2013 11:25 am

meh the retweet button is gone ! #previouTweet
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Re: low-poly cars

Post by Bosseye » Tue Jul 23, 2013 11:20 pm

Theres some not bad cars on the 3D Warehouse, you just need to dig through the rubbish to find them and then you need to spend a bit of time setting up the materials.

I've collected a few over the years - some are more low poly than others and most are missing some detail like number plates, tyre tread, proper rear light clusters etc. They won't win any awards, but they do for 'scene setting' details. All the cars in the image are in one file which is about 50mb total.

I tend to put them on a layer which is off until I return to the scene I want to render to ensure I can still work in sketchup properly.
cars.jpg
Car.jpg
CarEnv10.jpg

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Re: low-poly cars

Post by lape » Wed Jul 24, 2013 4:02 am

Ok, what do i have to pay to get your cars :wink:
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Re: low-poly cars

Post by Pikadili89 » Wed Jul 24, 2013 4:47 am

Here is a nice collection of cars I use for my scenes, everything is perfect exept crease of tires. Hope you like them! :)

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/ ... &scoring=m

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Re: low-poly cars

Post by Bosseye » Wed Jul 24, 2013 9:23 pm

Pikadili89 wrote:Here is a nice collection of cars I use for my scenes, everything is perfect exept crease of tires. Hope you like them! :)

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/ ... &scoring=m
Ho! those are great! Much better than mine, thanks for sharing.

Lape, you don't need mine - have these and then just tweak the materials. Like this, took 5 minutes:
Squashy1.jpg
Squashy2.jpg

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Re: low-poly cars

Post by Pibuz » Wed Jul 24, 2013 9:31 pm

Pikadili89 wrote:Here is a nice collection of cars I use for my scenes, everything is perfect exept crease of tires. Hope you like them! :)

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/ ... &scoring=m

WONDERFUL PIKADILI!
You have spared us loads of time! Thank you very much!

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