CAGD 495 Sprint Blog 2

2/19/26

For this Sprint I had the fantastic opportunity to 3D model and texture our 2nd Car model for our game. This was very amazing to me since it was my first time ever 3D modeling a car. Alongside that I also worked on many new models as well that would be used for our game. 

As I mentioned, the first thing I started working on was creating our 2nd car model. The car would be inspired by a classic 80’s version of the Trans Am muscle car. I started by bringing in some blueprints of a factory version of the car into Maya in order to have a scale reference for the intended car model. This included all angles of the car so that I would be able to scale it appropriately once modeled. Along with the car I had to model a separate set of tires for the car as well as a new antenna model for this car. This was relatively easy since the tire only needed to be modeled once and then duplicated.

One of my biggest challenges for this was the fact that I split up the car in 4 parts. I modeled the body, rear, hood and front of the car completely separately and once it came time to combine them, I ran into some minor issues. I found that a lot of my edge loops were not connecting entirely around the car since they had modeled separately which led me to fix them manually. 

Overall, by the time I had a good-looking mesh that I and my leads were happy with, I quickly went to UV and texture the model, and it turned out amazing. The car is definitely something I am proud to have worked and provided for my team. I was able to export 2 different versions of the texture file to showcase our red and blue players in game. After this model was complete and done, I moved on to working on my other cards that I had for this sprint. Most of them included creating some more assets for our game’s level design. 

I worked on modeling a battery, cannon ball, hardwood floor and some speed panels. As usual when creating these models, I made sure to keep our poly count low since most of these items will only exist in our games background. As soon as the models looked good they all got textured appropriately and marked as completed. The last model I started to work on was the retro handheld console. For the most part the model is complete and all I have to do now is make sure to UV it so that I can go and texture it. That will be my next thing I get to work on this upcoming sprint.