I'm working on a 3d model, I was easily able to make a side view from taking a picture, but I need a top view - straight down on the car. I heard that there was one in one of the manuals (my friken friend still has mine.. >:I)? Can someone please post a pic of it? here's what the side looks like, I need to make something simmilar to a view from the top :

 

That would be cool if you are making a car for like midtown madness or something like that.

 

Yeh, I'm doing the model in 3dS max, probably should make sure I have a low poly one too for games and stuff
I'm not great, but I can definatly make it. I don't have any tall buildings or stuff around my house... I'm trying to think of a way to get a clear view of it from the top, or even better, an allready outlined topview.
I tried it once with just side, trying to estimate, but I really haven't seen topviews of our cars to much, so it wasn't very accurate.
But I could post the obj file when I'm done with it, so anyone here who was more experience importing/exporting, or programming can add it into games
But I also want to use it for a little website, for seeing how our car looks in various colors, and "insta-rims". I think it would be fun to do

 

From Craig's site:


http://www.geocities.com/bracecraig/maxima/3ad.html

Upper left picture. Geocities won't let me link it directly.

 

Thanks, that helps a little, but it wasn't detailed enough for some stuff, but I went down to JC penny, and they have a straight drop off to the (firelane)"parking lot", so I took some that should work well... especially with the contrast between my poor white hood..

 

If you need any more roof pics I can probably get out on the roof of my house and take a pic of the tops of my 2 SEs in the driveway... one with a sunroof and one without

 

Sweet, could you write a tutorial dude? I know it's asking a lot but there are not a lot of quality car modeling tutorials for 3ds on the web. Just a thought.

Make sure to show us the results when you finish!