You can use proportional vertex editing for that. To enable this, while in Edit Mode you can press the "O" key. You'll find a menu of options for this tool in the middle of the header of the 3D View as well.

I've tested my techniques on lesser processors with great results, so building the models shouldn't cause any issues. I don't know what kind of GPU you have though, and this may have an impact on how well the viewport runs in Material Preview mode when we're building materials in the course, and how quickly the final results render.

@@blengine I have gt 610 right now. Will it work? or if not then which GPU do you recommend?

@@bhaveshsolanki3298 I don't know exactly how well all different hardware will perform, but check out this page on Blender requirements to see more about what kind of hardware you'll need for Blender in general - www.blender.org/download/requirements/ I believe your processors meet the minimum requirements. Your graphics card does not though. And you'll need at least 8gb of ram. For graphics cards, the website above lists some minimums, like for Windows and Nvidia cards - "GeForce 400 and newer, Quadro Tesla GPU architecture and newer, including RTX-based cards, with NVIDIA drivers."...... For AMD cards - AMD: GCN 1st gen and newer." I've always used Nvidia cards so that's all I can speak for, but I've had nothing but reliable and good performance from them. You can use websites like gpu.userbenchmark.com to compare graphics cards and find the best one that you can afford on your budget. As years go by between computer builds and upgrades I forget everything about hardware and have to learn about it all over again. But the two sites that save my butt are userbenchmark.com, and pcpartpicker.com The benchmark site compares different computer hardware so you can find a good balance between performance and price. PC Part Picker lets you build computers piece by piece, and it checks for compatibility between all the parts, making it super easy to put together a new computer. Or you can input your existing parts, and swap something out to make sure new parts will be compatible.

I focus mainly on making large courses for a living, but I'm going to be changing things around soon to focus more on youtube videos, and I'll cross my fingers that it works out for me.

If you don't have decent references then it's going to be a lot harder to make decent blueprints. But as long as you have a couple clear photos of the car (even if they're angled photos) you may be able to model straight from the photos using image modeling techniques, but these are not techniques I teach.

Hey, yeah in the course we UV unwrap the tire cleanly so we can apply a sidewall texture to it. I unwrap the tire so the UVs are perfectly straight, that way it's super easy to make a texture for. Creating the sidewall texture itself is not something I cover though, but only because it's just a little time consuming to cover for a texture that's mostly just text in different areas. Let me know if you have any other questions!

I would definitely recommend being comfortable with Blender before going through this course, the techniques are pretty advanced. That being said, many beginners (even total beginners) have gone through the course with great results. Since the course is entirely step-by-step, narrated-realtime, with me saying the hot keys out loud most of the time plus a hotkey display at the bottom of the videos, and Q&A support through email, I'm confident you'll find the course worthwhile and get good results as well. Let me know if you have any other questions!

To save the material you'll just need to save the blend file, then it will remain in the file as long as the material is assigned to at least one object. Remember that if a material is not assigned to any objects it may be erased if you close the file, even if the file was saved. If the material is not assigned to anything but you still want to save it in the file (like if you just want to have a material database in the file), then make sure to click on the shield icon next to the material's name. This will assign it to a "Fake User" so that Blender things the material is being used, that way Blender will not delete this material if the file is closed, as long as it was saved.

@@blengine BTW do i need to worry about the clamp factor on the mix nodes? i'm in Blender 4.2 I see the clamped factors automatically as checked boxes. im also having trouble seeing the texture in the rendered view for some reason

​@@LadyHolyKnight I don't really remember this texture that well at this point, but clamping would just take values beyond a 0-1 range and clamp them down to a 0-1 range, but I don't think there's anything in the texture that needs to be clamped. From what I remember we're mainly just dealing with black and white colors and factor outputs, which are all already within a 0-1 range, so it should make no difference if they're clamped or not. When in doubt though, just flip the clamp options on and off and take a look at the results, if the results change then clamping has an impact and you'll need to decide what the desired result should look like. As for not being able to see it in rendered mode, send your blend file over to me at [email protected] and I'll check it out.

Thank you very much!

Hey, there may be other options, email me at [email protected] and we'll see if we can figure it out.

Hey, I'm not on Discord, but you can email me at [email protected].

I would only recommend this course if you're comfortable with the basics of Blender and you have some experience with subsurf modeling. That being said, the course is entirely step by step, narrated in realtime, and I'm always available through email if you need help, so many even complete beginners have taken the course with good results. Naturally the less experience you have the more of a challenge it will be, but should still be possible to get through if you take your time.

The Corvette one is outdated compared to the new one, and it's actually been unpublished since releasing this one. So the new one is definitely the one to go with.

Hey, yeah this course is the step-by-step production of a single car, from the first vertex to the final renders. For this course we use both blueprints and reference images to create the model. Many people do follow along using different cars and their own references. This presents different challenges obviously, but the course will definitely be useful as a guide to the whole process still. I also won't be as helpful with Q&A if you get stuck modeling a different car though. I don't know how well the guide mesh technique translates to other software. I've not heard anything definitive on this, but I'm assuming the capability is not there, or at least not there to the same extent. This workflow maxes out the quality of polygon modeling for hard surfaces far more than anything I've seen in 23 years, so it will definitely be worth learning Blender for.

@@blengine tha ks I appreciate the response! Look forward to taking this.

While things like harden normals and weighted normals can fix shading in some circumstances, that won't have any positive effect in most boolean cutout situations unfortunately.

Hey, thank you very much for that!

Yep, 5 years ago!

True, a 1-dimensional point has no direction so it wouldn't have a normal, but in Blender they're not just 1d points, they can also be used to store other information. Like in this case, you can look at it like the vertex not having its own direction, but rather it's representing the directions of the surrounding faces and edges.

Hey, this tutorial is quite old and I'm out of touch with rigging so I won't be able to help you much on this, sorry about that. I do plan on getting back into rigging soon and redoing this tutorial with the latest Blender, hopefully this year.

I think it's generally the same except some minor details. Like at 26:40 when I center things, I do this differently in the new course, and also the new course uses the newer Weld modifier to connect everything after wrapping it around.

Unfortunately this is the nature of Blender these days. There's a ton of tutorials, and only a handful are 100% compatible with the latest Blender version at any given time. The Blender Encyclopedia is no longer being updated because the funding just isn't there to keep up with that course, and at this point an update would basically mean an entirely new course. There is a lot of information in that course that's compatible with the latest Blender, but there will be many incompatible parts along the way, so I wouldn't recommend that course if you're looking for something more straightforward to follow, sorry about that. I would love to redo this course, making it even bigger as well, but with the way Blender is updated and tutorials are outdated, including by irrational changes to tool names and UI shuffling, I no longer think I'll be making another course like this.

@@blengine Okay, thank you. Sorry to hear that. I'm fairly new to this and it's just frustrating searching through a million videos to find a simple 2 click solution to a problem. I'd be willing to pay someone with knowledge just to be able to ask them questions when running into snags without having to search through their vast array of courses to find what I missed or ask a Blender community that doesn't really help either. I'm still struggling with simple, basics that I can't find answers to. Again, I'd pay someone just to point me in the right direction when I'm stuck. You give great, detailed advice. Sorry you won't be making more courses. Thanks for the reply, friend. Ron

@@ronaldhulsmeyer1052 I'll definitely be making more courses, just not one that's like the Encyclopedia course, though I may release tutorials similar to that on KZbin. If you're looking for some personal training, I unfortunately don't really know where to look. You could try posting in the forums at blenderartists.org though, and hopefully you can find some help.

lol it was free

Yeah no one's happy with the changes to Autosmooth/Shade Smooth by Angle. You should be able to use the Shade Smooth by Angle modifier for this tutorial, I THINK, but I'd never recommend using the Right Click > Shade Smooth by Angle option anymore. This option is destructive and will physically mark edges as sharp. It is also not compatible with modifiers and won't take them into account. So for the time being, adding the modifier to the end of your stack is the best option, but this doesn't work with everything either. For example, it does not work with the Bevel modifier's Harden Normals option. It's all a bit of mess right now, and we're all hoping the devs heard the complaints and fix this for 4.2.

@@blengine oh, thank you for a quick response. I never heard about this, it’s a pity ((

@@PoMkAc27 Oh, yeah Autosmooth is now Shade Smooth by Angle, and they changed the way it works so that its compatible with Geometry Nodes. Hopefully they bring the old functionality back, it was so simple, we'll see what happens.

@@blengine I hope so

Explanation isn't filler. Just 2x and mute the video if you only want to play copy cat. Why should they remake the video for that? Be thankful for the free education. The gull on some people.

@@Bassalicious IKR that's crazy dude is lazy to sit through a free 40 minute masterclass on advanced shading. Keep it up CG Masters your channel is a gem.

can you remake your brain, but with less filler and just substance? Nope, no that can't be done.

Thank you and glad you liked it so much!

Hey, this course is fully step by step and narrated realtime, and many beginners have had great results following along, but yes it's still really advanced and I would not actually recommend this for beginners. I do have a beginner's course here though - cgmasters.com/blender-for-complete-and-total-beginners/ This will help get you up to speed and ready for something more complex. Full disclosure though, I do plan on redoing this beginner's course and releasing it on youtube for free in a couple months. It's on Udemy currently so it's still cheap, but just letting you know this will (likely) be free soonish too.

Hey, send the .blend file over to me at [email protected] and I'll check it out.

Thank you for the compliments! Glad you liked it. I'm trying to get some newer stuff on here, but tons of distractions right now, hopefully soon though.

I don't have the answer to this one, sorry about that. My knowledge of this particular shader is pretty limited, especially since I haven't worked with it in a while.

Thank you I'm glad you like it! The course is getting quite old at this point, but I still think there's a lot of worthwhile stuff in there.

​@@blenginethat's no problem honestly. I came here cause I reached the normal video In that course too after watching it on youtube.😅 The course was designed quite a lot the way I like a course to be. I can see some stuff being old, but I am still learning a lot. Thanks a lot for making it, when you reach projects and you have an idea of what tools does what it makes it a lot more engaging.

Is your hood unwrapped cleanly? This texture uses UV coordinates so your objects will need to be unwrapped as good as possible to get the best results.

This is using a much older Blender version that handles background images differently. The blueprints are packed into the .blend file still though, there's just no backgrounds being displayed if you open the blend in newer versions. What you can do is go to File > External Data > Unpack Resources. Ignore the fact that this option may be grayed out, you can still select it. This will unpack the blueprints to a folder. Now you can add in a new background image object and select the blueprints from that folder.

@@blengine wow thanks a lot, I did notice the version issue, but did not think it would be a great deal in terms of showing reference images.

Well I did unpack the resources, but the blueprint files did not show in the folder, as if they were never packed... only the car image and the tire treads image appeared@@blengine

@@maboya I opened up the blend file in 4.0, went to File > External Data > Unpack Resources. Then I chose "Write Files to Current Directory". If you didn't try that option while unpacking, give that a shot and let me know what happens. I just tested it again in 4.0 and it unpacked the blueprints for me. Alternatively, you can find the images in the Image Editor window, just use the Browse button in that editor to look through all the images, and you'll see the blueprints there. The blueprints do not have Fake Users though, so if you perhaps saved this blend file and re-opened it then the blueprints might be gone from the file. If this is the case, then you can just redownload the zip file and try again. Let me know how it goes.