Aerial tramway

[N-drju]

Good morning Community,

I'd like to share my first non-building model with you. It was a really time-consuming task but I had lots of fun building it and I believe the final effect is quite decent overall.

Below, you will find a link to the aerial tramway car I made in Blender. Complete with totally pointless front and rear lights and amusingly redundant dashboard.

 

One of the hardest parts of this project for me, was to keep the file size within reasonable limits. The first draft of this object weighed 270 mb... I have set myself a goal of reducing this to at least less than 100mb without impacting the quality too much and I met this goal. While we're at it, I'd like to cordially thank @KlausK and @sboerner for offering their tips and teaching me how to keep the polygon count at decent levels.

The car also comes with five UVed surfaces - front, left and right liveries and a dashboard. You will probably need to reassign them upon loading the object. The default dashboard texture even contains an Easter egg.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M2-MdFrSZ6diiPCYdPrDjWDEfYzTeC1n/view?usp=sharing

Any tips and constructive criticism are welcome. Do let me know how you like it and what I should improve.

[Dune]

Awesome!

[sboerner]

Cool model. Are you planning to use it in a scene? It would be nice to see a few of these, maybe a *little* weathered and beat-up, ascending a mountainside on a cable.

[WAS]

This very cool! Great share.. something totally different.

[N-drju]

Cool model. Are you planning to use it in a scene?

Yes, this was the idea all along. I just need to make a pylon along with the conveyor line. Should be a cakewalk now!

Thanks for the comments Guys. 

[Dune]

Very curious to see this in your landscape. Good luck!