From the course: Modeling a Motorcycle in Blender

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Modeling the tires

Modeling the tires - Blender Tutorial

From the course: Modeling a Motorcycle in Blender

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Modeling the tires

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- [Voiceover] Now we can go through a similar process for the tires. Let's go back to the right view and hit the five key to go to orthographic. And for the tires I think all we need is a Cylinder. And then I'd like to split it down the middle and mirror it over before we begin extruding edges to create the curve on the side of the tire. Whenever we create an object, it's going to come in at the point of the 3D cursor. So what let's do is just click right over here in the center of our tire, like that. And now let's go ahead and create a Cylinder. And I'll go ahead and leave it with 32 sides. But I don't think we need any Cap Fills. So I'll pull open this menu and choose Nothing. And now let's rotate this around the y axis by pressing r + y + nine + zero and that will rotate it 90 degrees around the y axis. Now we can scale this up 'til it's about the right size. We may need to move it just a tad here. Now let's go ahead and tumble around and we can scale it in the x with s and x…

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