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Hi there. I’m new to 3D CAD and 3D rendering. That is my mannequin of a U.S. Military M1A2 SEPv2 Abrams tank.

The tank is modeled in SketchUp Professional 2022 and rendered in V-Ray 6. Typically I exploit Photoshop’s Auto Distinction instrument on the completed render, however no different publish work is utilized.

The emphasis on this mannequin is accuracy. I can’t create the attractive renders of you skilled guys and it takes me eternally to do absolutely anything as I fumble my manner by way of this, however dimensionally and shape-wise I consider this to be one of the correct Abrams fashions exterior Common Dynamic’s engineering workplace! (I put in a LOT of labor getting that stuff proper…)

A VFX skilled buddy of mine as soon as requested me to ship him the .obj (?) file of this. Once I did he actually rotfl as a result of it’s so dangerous. The earliest elements of the drawing are ludicrously excessive decision, as a result of I didn’t need circles that regarded like cease indicators, so I maxed the segments on every thing. The primary gun tube, as an illustration, is roughly 5 terabytes… xD

Thanks for studying.

spectacular however…

wait what ?

how did you find yourself with a 5Tb file for the gun barrel precisely ?
I take pleasure in modelling stuff only for the sake of modelling, with numerous decision, however how ?

A number of years in the past they constructed a startup campus close to me, 11 000 m2 on 7Ha
The whole BIM recordsdata represented lower than 5Tb. fairly certain it was about 4.

They have been utilizing revi…archicad ? utilizing devoted servers to retailer all of it and to permit easy accessibility, the very very first thing they did on web site was to drag the fiber to the on-site workplaces.
You imply to inform me that in sketchup you made a file containing a 5Tb gun barrel ??

I’ll have exaggerated the file dimension just a little.

no… Dezmo says his message is off subject.

you must click on on the arrow within the message subsequent to “off subject”

you’re in subject right here certainly together with your 5Tb gunbarrel

Aaahhh… I believed I’d tousled once more! Thanks for that.

Ah, okay, I get you now. If it helps, this isn’t some “I like killing issues with tanks!” undertaking. It’s an integral a part of a Abrams reproduction construct undertaking for use in a film. (And the film isn’t about “I like killing issues with tanks!” both.)

Additionally, thanks for the praise. It’s appreciated.

As somebody who’s modeled dozens of such issues (bodily, not in SketchUp), I share the sentiment. Additionally, rising up, I used to rant at how a lot the flicks obtained fallacious, like Rommel utilizing US M60 Patton tanks (mockingly) within the film Patton. Lately, Hollywood has gotten a lot better at getting the small print proper, and it definitely appears to be like such as you’re on it.

The choices have been:

• Low-cost and dangerous cgi;
• costly and good cgi;
• a fully-functional reproduction.

The underside line was an all-steel 1:1 reproduction labored out quite a bit cheaper and sooner to create than any good cgi model. Low-cost and dangerous cgi would have doomed the undertaking. The film is more likely to enchantment to the type of people that know quite a bit about tanks and the Gulf wars, due to this fact, as you say, getting it proper was a crucial situation!

Or the inflatable variations used to deceive Germans earlier than D-day…

Heheheh, however not more likely to idiot tank nerds and veterans!

I simply wished to chime in with this story.

Whereas I used to be finding out in Edinburgh, there was an election for the College rector, and a man known as Mark Ballard, who was a Inexperienced social gathering member of Scottish Parliament (he was contesting Boris Johnson because it occurs).

This Mark man was a pacifist, hated conflict, nuclear disarmament, all concerning the surroundings and so forth. He was additionally rumoured to OWN a WW2 tank – he was obsessive about, and beloved – tanks.

I’m wondering how a lot of that is true, however all of us have our shadow selves that we’ve to are likely to huh?

Human nature is fascinating! Many tank lovers have supplied their .02c on this undertaking. One man demanded to know why the reproduction didn’t embrace the anti-anti-tank missile system generally known as Trophy. I advised him it was as a result of the reproduction is for a movie set throughout a interval earlier than Trophy was thought-about to be used. (Additionally it’s as a result of i feel it appears to be like ugly as hell.) The man snorted and stated, “Good luck when the ATGMs are coming at you!” after which spun on his heel and stalked away. Not fairly certain what it’s he thinks the REPLICA tank will likely be doing…

Thanks! I’ve been revising the operating gear – drive sprockets, roadwheels, tracks, and so forth. – and it’s nearly prepared, so I’ll seemingly publish an up to date picture or two quickly.

Sure, do hold posting progress. I’m not within the film enterprise, however my sister and her husband are, and I’m a little bit of a fanboy of units and results.

Hey, fascinating! What do your sister and her husband do? Are they within the artwork, units and props aspect?

Right here’s the Abrams hull with wheels and drive sprockets:

I obtained “inventive” with the lighting…

The bearing plates, street arms, sprockets and roadwheels are largely full, save a couple of trivial refinements. That thriller ghost floating loafer wheel is awaiting a revised arm, and the ultimate drive enclosure is one other work-in-progress. The wheel hub covers are placeholders solely. I haven’t had time to work on them as but. Nonetheless requires loads of additions, modifications and tweaks (in addition to the tracks!), however slowly heading towards the end line.

The world’s nicest manufacturing facility…

Apart from the cleanest warehouse on Earth, I added the return rollers and the wheel nuts. Oh, and likewise the turret.

Very good! With the graceful curves and V-Ray rendering, I may hardly guess this was SketchUp. Arduous, horizontal, late afternoon solar might be very placing and it appears to work right here, so, hey, why not. If you happen to’re constructing this as a sensible impact, does it transfer, or do some elements transfer? Strictly exteriors or inside elements?

I don’t need to hijack your thread, however sure, my sister is a director and her present (2nd) husband is an artwork director. I keep in mind him sharing photographs of his submarine interiors for “Final Resort” which was cool to see in progress. It was by way of her and her first husband that I obtained to know Ron Cobb in any respect. Ron was the one who obtained me to purchase a Wacom pill in 1993. Simply watching him work and I wished one too, however after all, simply having one didn’t imply I may draw like him. He was proof that expertise was extra essential than any {hardware}/software program you would purchase. As an architect who does largely homes, I discover watching the creation of this make consider stuff very fascinating.