Dymaxion car

Doc Acme

I came across this today:
https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/images/526691/

Based on this:
https://www.daz3d.com/bus-maxis

But haven't found a way to contact James47 directly to inquire further as I guess he's not a vendor. I left a comment on the Gallery but wondering if there's a better way.

 

Ptrope

Great image - I just wish people woud stop calling it a Dymaxion. Inspired by, yes, but nothing actually in common with Fuller's cars. It also shares some design elements with a car called the "Fascination."

James47

I just replied to your gallery comment, it’s a fairly simple process to convert to Iray in the Surfaces Tab, there are only about a dozen or so material surfaces.... I used  DAZ glass shader, a generic paint shader and a chrome shader, then used a free HDRI.....

 hope this helps

Jim

Doc Acme

OK.  Thanks Jim. 

I'd be bringing into Lightwave where I've good tools to do that.  It's more the re-modeleing aspect I'm mostly curious about. It'll be a few months before I get back to my main system, so might contact you later to pick your barins a bit.

Just as an aside, I went to school at U of O in Eugene. One of my dearest profs. was a close friend of R. Buckminster. Bucky would occassionally poke his head into the class & ask Dave if he was available to go to lunch.  Class usually got cut short.

James47

I had the good fortune to do a photo session with Linus Pauling, a contempary of Fuller in the late 1970s when I lived in San Francisco...Needless to say, a very interesting man.

. let me know if you have any further questions.

Jim