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Hard-Surface Game Asset · 02
McLaren MP4-12C
BeautyFinal Arnold render with lighting and post.
[01] — Asset breakdown
Project overview
The McLaren MP4-12C hard-surface car asset was modeled in Autodesk Maya using a high-poly to low-poly workflow, with optimized topology while preserving the key shapes, proportions, and details of the reference.
The low-poly mesh was optimized for game-ready baking, transferring high-poly details through baked maps. The asset was then UV unwrapped and textured using a PBR workflow in Substance 3D Painter, rendered in Arnold, and given final adjustments in Adobe Photoshop.
Project includes
Technical specifications
- Category
- Hard Surface Vehicle
- Polycount
- 51.3K tris
- Texture resolution
- 4096 × 4096
- Texture sets
- 1 × 4K
- Texture maps
- 6 maps
- Workflow
- PBR Metallic / Roughness
- Modeling
- Autodesk Maya
- Texturing
- Substance 3D Painter
- Rendering
- Arnold Renderer
- Post
- Adobe Photoshop
- Render resolution
- 1920 × 1024
- Frames delivered
- 15 renders & passes
02 — Breakdown · 4 frames
Final Renders
Arnold beauty renders with final adjustments in Photoshop — plus the raw frame before post.
03 — Breakdown · 2 frames
HDRI Lighting
The asset dropped into real-world HDRI environments to prove the materials under natural light.
04 — Breakdown · 3 frames
Modeling & Topology
Game-mesh wireframes — edge flow, silhouette support and where the triangle budget is spent.
05 — Breakdown · 4 frames
Ambient Occlusion
Clay AO passes that read pure form, contact shadows and cavity detail without materials.
06 — Breakdown · 2 frames
Normal & Color ID
Normal and material-ID passes — surface orientation, baked detail and the masks behind texturing.
07 — Texture sets · 4096 × 4096
PBR Texture Maps
The exported Substance 3D Painter channels. Hover a channel to preview it, click the map to inspect it at full resolution.
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