[wip] Guitar

Viggy · Post by **Viggy** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:41 am

I was taking a break from working on that Elite model and I was playing my guitar (it's not technically mine, I'm borrowing this one because mine is busted). Then I opened up Gmax and started modeling. Well, this is what I've got so far:

This is the base of the guitar (no material applied). The basic shape is laid out and I pretty much stopped there for now. This is just a side project.

Thoughts so far?

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:17 am

That is pretty kickass!

thephatpanda · Post by **thephatpanda** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:32 am

Ya when you finish you should make like Dead Rising you go around bashing peeps with it lol

10/10 (better than i can do)

EDIT: And it is very good for Gmax How do you add vertexs or did you just use the ones you start with?

a mammoth · Post by **a mammoth** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:20 pm

Theres some weird smoothing at the back part.
Besides that, looks pretty sweet.

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:02 pm

Cool.

Viggy · Post by **Viggy** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:44 am

Yeah I wasn't sure how to start this one so I just laid out vertices and plaid connect the dots, then improvised to get what I have now.

I'll be working on this one more today when I get home from school.

Viggy · Post by **Viggy** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:14 pm

Update.

The positioning of everything isn't exactly the way I want it, but roughly it's slowly coming together.

RaVNzCRoFT · Post by **RaVNzCRoFT** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:24 pm

Looking good, although very basic.

Viggy · Post by **Viggy** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:37 pm

Yeah, but it looks cool. And it's even cooler for me because I'm holding the guitar I'm modeling right in my hands.

I think when I finish, I'll take a picture of the real thing and put the picture and model together to see how it looks

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cooldude5990 · Post by **cooldude5990** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:41 pm

looks good, just one thing, isnt a guitar concave?

fishface617 · Post by **fishface617** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:57 pm

What do you mean? That looks like an electric guitar to me.

Viggy · Post by **Viggy** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:49 pm

Definatly an electric guitar. (not sure what concave means

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SnaFuBAR · Post by **SnaFuBAR** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:16 pm

no, they're convex and hollow (acoustic guitars anyways).

kinda simple, but you need a 3 degree draft angle on that thing. the edges shouldn't be vertical.

Viggy · Post by **Viggy** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:53 am

I don't think I understand. I'm modeling this off my buddy's guitar and the edges look vertical to me.

Can you provide a picture to better explain what you're talking about? You may be right and I may be just thinking about something totally different.

Nitemare · Post by **Nitemare** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:14 am

It looks real

SnaFuBAR · Post by **SnaFuBAR** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:02 am

Viggy wrote:I don't think I understand. I'm modeling this off my buddy's guitar and the edges look vertical to me.

Can you provide a picture to better explain what you're talking about? You may be right and I may be just thinking about something totally different.

the edges are supposed to be visually vertical, but they're most likey (due to manufacturing procedures) angled at 3 degrees, possibly less. so instead of it being like this:

[ ] on the sides (totally vertical, top and bottom) it should be more like this

/ \ top (the underscore would be the middle between the top and bottom half of the guitar)
\ / bottom

the sides angle towards the top and bottom. this is done so that they can pull the part out of the mold easily.

Viggy · Post by **Viggy** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:12 pm

SnaFuBAR wrote:
Viggy wrote:I don't think I understand. I'm modeling this off my buddy's guitar and the edges look vertical to me.

Can you provide a picture to better explain what you're talking about? You may be right and I may be just thinking about something totally different.
the edges are supposed to be visually vertical, but they're most likey (due to manufacturing procedures) angled at 3 degrees, possibly less. so instead of it being like this:

[ ] on the sides (totally vertical, top and bottom) it should be more like this

/ \ top (the underscore would be the middle between the top and bottom half of the guitar)
\ / bottom

the sides angle towards the top and bottom. this is done so that they can pull the part out of the mold easily.

Oh I see what you mean now. But, uh, I dunno where you're buying your guitars but last I checked, you don't mold wood.

Anway, I'm gonna skip out on working on it for today because I just don't care too much today. I'll update tomorrow.