Modelling Update

Just an update on how my modelling is progressing. Modelling the dune buggy is relatively easy, but there are problems when trying to model parts of the dune buggy that are not shown in the background images. Another problem is that there is not a background image that shows the dune buggy from above or below, which makes it difficult to get the rotation of some shapes correct.

The dune buggy is pretty much made by building the main chassis piece by piece from prefabs. The metal bars are made from extruding circles/cylinders using both background images to get an idea of where they should be placed. The metal panes were made by placing vertices on their corresponding places of the background image, and filling them in to form a plane using a fill.

The problem with using a background image as a viewpoint however is that the photographs of the dune buggy are taken from a perspective viewpoint, in comparison to the orthographic viewpoint in which I am viewing the background images from. This causes problems since I have to take depth into account when sorting out the placement of some components. The model so far can be seen below.