Who didn’t
think of being a firefighter once? I don’t know the reason, but when we
are kids it is one of the professions we all want to “do when we are old”.
When we grow up, very few have the guts to be firefighters… it is a very hard
job and you risk your life quite often to help the others. (As an American
would say) this is my small tribute to all firefighters in the world...
THE FIRE TRUCK
At first I
didn’t like the project that was assigned to me since there were a lot of other
things to do, like a weapon or a tank and we just made a car, but you cannot always choose, right? So I began working on it and soon realized that it
was more interesting than it seemed at the beginning.
It is made
of 25 objects (3 Chassis, 16 Complements and 6 Wheels) and 3,892 triangles. As
it happened with the Camaro it is very difficult to find proper
references about fire trucks since all of them are quite unique. Finally I used
this one.
I decided that
I will use textures in all windows this time (haven’t got to that point yet)
since a car might be designed for a more close up look, but generally a fire
truck in a videogame is seen in a more general shot.
One
peculiarity of this one is that it is not symmetric. The main difference
is that the rear-right side is lower than the left side to leave some room for
the stairs. The placement of the “trunk separators” is also not symmetric.
Another
thing you may have noticed is that I have strange cubes lying here and there in
different parts of the truck, those are individual objects snapped to the main
body and represent different hoses that will also be shown with a texture.
This fire
truck is designed to put out fires in residential houses or small buildings more than rescue as you can see for the fixed hosed mouth that distributes the
water on top of the truck.
The lower
part, if ever shown, will also simulate the lower parts of the truck with a
texture. I’ve set a separation between the wheels to avoid seeing the wheel on
the other side when turning if we ever get to that camera angle.
Stay tunned for the
next post (The Night of the Aliens) since we will start with organic modeling…
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