UK Caravans

privite · Dec 17, 2011

I think its about time i posted my progress on my range of UK caravans. At the moment they are in 3 different colours (cream, light blue and light green). The range also includes road, T junctions, other caravan park buildings and hopefully splines of the caravans if its wanted. I hope to get them onto the DLS in a few days to a week, and i hope you like them.

The steps

Im also having a few problems with the wheels. They look like they've been inverted. If anyone has any ideas on how to fix this i would love to here. BTW, I cloned it from the first one.

Please feel free to post your opinion and thought on here, as they will be appreciated.

Privite

johnwhelan · Dec 17, 2011

Which software are you working in? The wheel stuff is probably normals.

Cheerio John

privite · Dec 17, 2011

Some more

Heres another one i just made:

privite · Dec 17, 2011

johnwhelan said:
Which software are you working in? The wheel stuff is probably normals.

Cheerio John

Oh, sorry John, didn't see your post.

Im working on Gmax. And what do you mean by "normals"

thanks

johnwhelan · Dec 17, 2011

privite said:
Oh, sorry John, didn't see your post.

Im working on Gmax. And what do you mean by "normals"

thanks

GMAX does strange and mysterious things from time to time to make your life interesting and you need to know the right incantations to get it to work nicely. I can remember the Blender ones but I've forgotten the GMAX ones, Paul Hobbs GMAX tutorials talk about it and resetting something or other, or I'm certain that someone will be along shortly to say its all very simple and you just have to highlight something and click on a button somewhere.

Cheerio John

privite · Dec 17, 2011

Ok, thanks John. It is annoying, isn't it:hehe: i will take a look at the tutorials and see if that will fix it.

Meanwhile, i've exported the new caravans and got them into the game.

Privite

ray_whiley · Dec 17, 2011

These are very nice models and will be of great help in creating a mobile home park or holiday complex. They are, of course, essentially static, not for towing, and wheels are simjply a legal necessity so that they can be classed as caravans.

Have you thought of making any touring caravans (ie. for towing) or even better, as far as I'm concerned, motorhomes - which come in a great variety of models and sizes?

Ray

privite · Dec 17, 2011

ray_whiley said:
These are very nice models and will be of great help in creating a mobile home park or holiday complex. They are, of course, essentially static, not for towing, and wheels are simjply a legal necessity so that they can be classed as caravans.

Have you thought of making any touring caravans (ie. for towing) or even better, as far as I'm concerned, motorhomes - which come in a great variety of models and sizes?

Ray

When you say "towing", do you mean attached to a car, or just with a hook for towing. As i have found out, i can't make cars, my attempts look awful:hehe: . And yes, i have thought about making motorhomes, hopefully in the near future. Is there any one in particular that you were thinking of Ray? And if anyone has any ideas on what to make, i'd love to here them.

privite · Dec 17, 2011

Just uploaded the caravans and caravans with veranda's, so shuold be on the DLS tomorrow

Edit: the road should be up tomorrow too.

Edit2: No, actually Monday

johnwhelan · Dec 17, 2011

ray_whiley said:
These are very nice models and will be of great help in creating a mobile home park or holiday complex. They are, of course, essentially static, not for towing, and wheels are simjply a legal necessity so that they can be classed as caravans.

Have you thought of making any touring caravans (ie. for towing) or even better, as far as I'm concerned, motorhomes - which come in a great variety of models and sizes?

Ray

Can you run an eye over wheel problem? You probably know the GMAX incantations better than I.

Thanks John

paulzmay · Dec 17, 2011

johnwhelan said:
Can you run an eye over wheel problem? You probably know the GMAX incantations better than I.

Thanks John

Thanks John

Reset XForm usually works for me. In the utilities (hammer) menu IIRC.

Paul

P.s. nice caravans....

misterchugg · Dec 17, 2011

hi mate
are you looking at making some with 2 or 3 axles?
over here the single axle big ones are not allowed to be towed behind a vehicle

thanks
ron

privite · Dec 18, 2011

Thanks for the replys,

Ron, I will start that in a minute
Paul, I will do that now...

Privite

privite · Dec 18, 2011

paulzmay said:
Reset XForm usually works for me. In the utilities (hammer) menu IIRC.

Paul

P.s. nice caravans....

Thanks Paul, it worked!!

Privite

privite · Dec 18, 2011

misterchugg said:
hi mate
are you looking at making some with 2 or 3 axles?
over here the single axle big ones are not allowed to be towed behind a vehicle

thanks
ron

Is this what you had in mind?

Just made it so tell me if it doesn't look right

privite · Dec 18, 2011

And for Ray...

Any replies will be helpful

ray_whiley · Dec 18, 2011

@privite - yes, I actually meant the smaller caravans which could be towed by a car; I believe the larger ones like those you have made must be towed by a commercial vehicle or transported as a load. There are some which are made in two halves, ie. split down the middle, and are transported with a cover over what would be an open side. Ones similar to this have been used for many years in the UK as mobile classrooms for schools - some secondary schools I have known had more mobiles than permanent classrooms - as many as 15 or more.

As for motorhomes, my particular interest is in AutoSleepers, especially those with moulded fibregalss bodies designed by William Towns, who I believe also designed Aston-Martins. We owned one for many years! I would have a go myself, but I've never had a tried making models of cars or similar.

Ray

ray_whiley · Dec 18, 2011

@johnwhelan -

Can you run an eye over wheel problem? You probably know the GMAX incantations better than I.

John, I'm still very much a learner with GMax and have only tried wheels once -they were fixed (non-revolving) and turned out back to front on one side of my (very basic) models of old-time Belgian trams. I must really get to grips with animation some time!

Ray

privite · Dec 18, 2011

ray_whiley said:
@privite - yes, I actually meant the smaller caravans which could be towed by a car; I believe the larger ones like those you have made must be towed by a commercial vehicle or transported as a load. There are some which are made in two halves, ie. split down the middle, and are transported with a cover over what would be an open side. Ones similar to this have been used for many years in the UK as mobile classrooms for schools - some secondary schools I have known had more mobiles than permanent classrooms - as many as 15 or more.

As for motorhomes, my particular interest is in AutoSleepers, especially those with moulded fibregalss bodies designed by William Towns, who I believe also designed Aston-Martins. We owned one for many years! I would have a go myself, but I've never had a tried making models of cars or similar.

Ray

I thought you may have been thinking of the smaller ones. Luckily, the caravans shown in the screenshot have hooks too, so it was worth it. As for the autosleepers, i will take a look at them and see what i can do, but like you, i have never attepted cars.

Privite

misterchugg · Dec 18, 2011

hi mate
yep. just like that
see lots of them here in oz
thanks
ron

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