Sure thing EZRA, I hope it helps Dragon and others too.
Your model is looking good! I’ve got some nice blueprints of a Lamborgini Gallardo I’m planning to start on, but I 've got to finish up my cannon project first.
Dave
Very interesting to see something like this done in ZBrush! 
ASECBRUSH, I highly agree!!
EZRA52, again, this truck of yours is coming along really, really ‘smooth’ and pro like (I keep thinking this thing was made in 3D Studio Max or Maya). Also, thanks for the COOL tips.
DLANGLEY, ya, I remember NOW that video (when vr4 was introduced-the round looking ride). Once I finish this current project, I am going to go back to that video and PRACTICE (man, do I still need to practice-
). Can’t wait to see you make that LAMBO.
You know, was thinking, maybe ‘they-ZbrushCentral’ should make another row for HARD SURFACE modeling i.e. there is the Top Row, the Beta Row and the Main Row, now they should include a Hard Surface Modeling Row (now that ZBrush has all these cool Hard Surface tools)?? Just a thought.
Hi folks,
Well, I spent some of my modeling time today trying to smooth out some nasty little polygon groups or, more accurately, messes that seem to be a part and parcel of the group looping on a dynameshed subtool with the resulting triangle pollies. The problem was most noticeable on the hood and front fenders. I opted against retopo to try and stay true to the using just the normal tools in Zbrush. I would have used the Zbrush retopo tools even had I decided on that route. It turned out that the flatten and polish brushes seemed to be the most effective but on the really bad ones I did go down to the single polly level using the move brush to try and straighten out the little polly/edge tangles.
The rest of the time was spent fitting the doors, hood and fenders together to narrow the gaps to look as close to real-life size gaps as I could. I used the move and some smooth brushing almost exclusively to get that done.
Good sculpting all, TC
Ezra
Got the extraction to a shell done on the rear fenders, created the window frames from the edge loops that were left or created between the cab body and windows glass parts after group looping and then sized and installed the window glass.
As you can see the glass is transparent only one time, meaning any glass that is on the opposite side of the transparent glass is not transparent. Too bad but, oh well, it is what it is.
Have fun Zbrushing all.
Hey EZRA that is really coming along nicely!
I haven’t played with transparency but it seems odd that transparency renders like that.
Interior of the driver side door. Even modeled in the window track, lol. Lots of masking & polygrouping to prepare areas for very small moves/changes.
Ezra
Looks great Ezra!
Thanks Voodoo,
Just a small update. Installed a firewall and testing the new jpg export. Very cool.
Ezra
Nice start. I did a similar project not to long ago. Nice clean lines…
That truck looks great bipolar as does all of your work. Like youre diving helmet, I’m staying 100% Zbrush for this project. I’m nowhere near as skilled as you with modeling but it’s been loads of fun so far and it really helps to learn the program. The texturing on that truck is your truck is excellent. I have almost zero texturing/rendering skills. On my list of things to learn :).
Thanks for looking and commenting. Have fun Zbrushing.
Ezra
Nonsense…I’ve seen your earlier work, and you definitely have the ability and have shown it. Throw a plane with the truck your modeling in the back round for reference. And stare at your reference alot! Yeah starting my truck pieces in max was kinda cheating 
but I did the diving helmet 100% in zbrush. As for the texturing, give poly painting in zbrush a go. I find it much better than painting on a flat canvass…
bipoler - I have a plane with a side image of the truck set up and DO refer to it pretty often. All of the primary body parts began as extractions off of that image of the truck of the plane.
Playing around with lighting and stuff, all of which I know nothing about. Learned a little bit more though.
Ezra
hey EZRA52 first of all thank you for your comments about my work and animals are my #1 passion actually it has been since i was a kid always wanted to be a zoologist or marine biologist ever since my first run in with a wolf in my back yard and a friends horse also my friend david who used to swim with his pet sharks that his family had at the aquatic zoo i think all these things really sparked my interest early on… and i had in interest in art so i i figured i would merge the two together and that very passion is what drives me to try to be a better artist in all that i take on and all that i try to learn so early on i decided i would try to be wildlife artist and combine that with my passion for wildlife photography always loved jim brandenburg http://jimbrandenburg.com/ and his infamous wolf photography and his early work for national geographic … at an early age in my life i became very sick and was in the hospital off and on for what seemed like forever throughout school i new than that i wasn’t going to be able to be in the field and fulfill my 1st true passion so around that time my life seemed bleak with health problems and disease coming from out of nowhere and left me weak and bedridden, it was than that i stumbled upon this amazing forum and community that i truly do appreciate since it has given me a new out let on what matters most to me and a way of expressing my self and in no other way that was possible at the time, i truly do believe art can bring some type of expression and a voice to those who can not communicate what they think and feel any other way … i know for myself im happy i found many friends and what has come only to be known as my artistic family of sorts. and it has been a great adventure thus far being part of this great community of artist but my only wish is that i improve enough in my own work to be as good as the ones here someday so i can breath life into to my own work and express how i truly feel … 
anyways keep up the great progress you only get better when you apply yourself…
look forward to maybe seeing some animal sculpts from you in the future always nice to meet an animal lover in the art community…
Ezra, I am loving the progress you’re making on your truck. Did you figure out the transparency issue you were having with the glass overlap?
Dave
troy1617 - thanks so much for the kind words and encouragement.
DLangley - thanks Dave
Just added a few front end parts.
Ezra
looking great - keep goin !!
So far so good
