Original 3D wheel designs in the artistic style of "Grand Theft Auto V"

The lore wheel project

The Concept

With this wheel pack, my goal was to create a large variety of sports and high end wheels to fill the gap that Rockstar had created within Grand Theft Auto V. To align with the constraints of the game engine, I applied the following limits:

A maximum polycount of 12,000 (L0) 6000 (L1) 4000 (L2)
Fully working and usable inside GTA V
A wide variety of wheels that will fit within the existing sports and high end category
Fit within GTA's pre-existing lore and design language

Year

2022

Game Assets

Type

Experimentation and design studies

The Details

I started with creating a basic list of some wheels I wanted to start with, then went onto preparing a "Template" Blender file which contained Rockstar's existing level of details (LODs) for the wheel barrel and tyres. This would allow me to make wheels more efficiently whilst keeping the same consistent style as Rockstar has made in the past.

If you'd like to download the wheels and have a look yourself, you can get them here.

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I then started on some wheels! The fun with wheels is that you only need to model one spoke, or even in most cases, half of that spoke. Some consideration had to be given as some wheels with 8+ spokes would rack up a high poly count very quickly.