Blender Tutorial - Modeling Car Tires 

Here's an example blend with explanations inside: cgmasters.net/tutorials/tire_no_apply.zip -Chris

thanks!

There is a merge option in the array modifier.

Yep though this only works when the array modifier is at the end of the modifier stack else you're still left with a seam that's not merged after you bend it around in a circle. Having array at the end of a modifier stack then requires a couple extra steps to still be able to spin it around in a perfect circle. This is the modifier workflow used in the blend file I linked to a couple comments above.

I was trying to find an efficent way to have a simple deform of 360 degrees after subdivision without that annoying seam. I think I menaged to do it once, but I don't remember how. Any suggestion?

Sorry to hear you couldn't follow along. If you had any questions about anything you can ask away. And I'm sure you'll get to the point of understanding all this in the near future. -Chris

I was exaggerating a bit. The tutorio was fine. I ssimply had a lot of distractions.

haha thank you very much! -Chris

@@JackCreator use ALT +E :D ^^ .

Thanks sir it really helps a lot🙏🙏

@@abdelkarimkeraressi1418 thank you

Haha yep! Increase our knowledge base + course promo, good deal =) I put the rim chapter from the Jeep on youtube, so now a tire now completes the set in a way. They're some of my favorite things to model so I love having that info on our channel. -Chris

Yet you use a small i to begin that with haha, jk

@@mickyr171 never said he possessed those qualities now did he?😹

Oh yeah I actually used to pan the scene down and used the bottom of the window as a ruler haha, until one day I realized box select did that. Glad you liked the tutorial =D -Chris

haha sorry =) Figuring stuff out on your own is good learning though. Glad you still picked up some new tricks, and thanks for the support I hope you like the course too. -Chris

Thanks Andrew I appreciate all the compliments including using my own words to compliment me haha. Glad you liked the video so much =)

Hey, glad you're liking the tutorials, plenty more coming! -Chris

I am looking forward to this !

How do you do it man, how do you respond just milliseconds after I hit publish haha.

CG Masters haha because I have pressed the bell icon, so I get notified when u upload.

@@vfxbros9420 :D

Congrats! Hope it came out good :) -Chris

@@J.PC.Designs lmao np!

@@Theakm55 ты ведь русский, да?

for anyone that still having a problem try to rotate the null object

Thanks welcome aboard! -Chris

Can you make a tire without using a mesh?

This was quite a cool car to model, glad I chose this one for the course. -Chris

Sweet hope you like it! -Chris

Don carlos I appreciate the support man, and I'll actually be making some bonus content for this course which will include rendering in Eevee.

Lately it seems like there's been more and more max users with their eye on blender. Good to see =) -Chris

Can send you link, if you are interested ;) well just tires, but textured

We're venturing into full school curriculum territory haha. I'd love to though, I would, but I need to find a good balance between how much time I can afford to put into each course while keeping prices low and still keeping up with free tutorials and online support. That being said, bonus Substance Painter content is likely at least. I'm very anxious to try out that new car material set! -Chris

Great, Lots of us make models for games or other things. Will be keeping an eye out for what you come up with.

I've been getting into game modeling more this year so you can definitely expect my focus to shift significantly toward game content creation in the near future.

That would be great! Game models require trickery like normal maps. Also the thought process of resisting the urge to keep adding geometry. When we started our game, looking back I wish I had not added details people will zip right by never noticing. I am interested in your throught process of being a amazing high quality modeler to thinking this needs to work in a game and I needs lots of them. I have learned you can use one material, vertex paint many model pieces then throw them on the same UV map. A huge performance boost, but I got it figured out a bit late in our project and now looking back might have to redo some things as those textures add up into gigs. Anyway, thank you and I'll keep following and watching.

Oh yeah that makes sense. You're up close and personal with a model without realizing no one else is going to be that close or see it from certain angles. That will be a change of pace for me haha, definitely need to do a lot of research to make sure I'm doing things right before I make any complex training. Got any visuals or demos of your game out yet?

Hey, that course is actually already out =) Check it out here - cgmasters.net/training-courses/master-car-creation-in-blender/ -Chris

Now I'm interested in knowing the NX workflow because if it can produce an accurate tire in less than 20(or probably 15 for this particular tire) minutes then that's pretty awesome. -Chris

I honestly highly doubt it though.

@@blengine Yes. You can pattern geometry in a circular fashion. That saves a lot of time and you are also able to do very fast fixes.

Hmm, I still can't see it being faster than 15 minutes. The time consuming part is creating the tread shape in the first place. Spinning it around is only a couple clicks of the mouse. It just takes longer in a tutorial because it's half the pace and there's extra explanations. I wasn't able to find any decent NX examples on youtube. Can you recommend any?

Hey I responded to your email with the solution there. And glad you liked the tutorial! -Chris

Glad you liked it! If it's only something you do once in a while then makes sense if you forget a couple steps, but this video's here to reference =)

haha, it just kind of ended up really precise because it's a very technical kind of model so it required a very technical approach to get just right.

I have a separate rim tutorial, though it's even older than the tire tutorial, but the principles are still relevant - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TAlzJC2uzIU.html

I think a displacement map could definitely work, though it might increase render times depending on how detailed you'd want the displacement to be. Not sure though, I haven't tested anything like that before with tires. Glad you're excited about the course, thanks for the support! -Chris

Definitely makes sense to make normal as it will fake the detail instead of actual displacement.

I had an instructor who told me to unwrap your UV's as you're modeling .

That's a good question, there's so many crevices that I feel like this kind of tire is better off textured procedurally for the most part. In the course I texture procedurally, but then I select just the vertices on the sidewalls of the tire and UV unwrap them into a straight line so that I can apply a tire sidewall texture to it that has all the logos and text. If you were looking to unwrap the entire model, like for a game model, I think cutting a seam across it to break the circle, and then using the "unwrap" option might work pretty well. Though a game model typically wouldn't have this kind of detail anyway and would likely use a lower poly model that this detail was baked onto. So the unwrapping process of the lower poly tire would be easier. Good luck! -Chris