Cars The Need For Speed

[A3DR]

Is that this one?

Maybe it's the paint but the one I've seen on 2nd phase Vipers looks to have a bit more headroom, the one you've seen on that pic is what I went for, can easily tell the shape with a bit of reflections

Here's the most original car I've seen so far with all the factory options as it was delivered:
http://www.viperexchange.com/vehicle-details/1994-dodge-viper-19-miles-from-new-rt-10-tx-id-18739809

 

[ALB123]

Here's the most original car I've seen so far with all the factory options as it was delivered:
http://www.viperexchange.com/vehicle-details/1994-dodge-viper-19-miles-from-new-rt-10-tx-id-18739809

What the crap?! 19 miles on the odometer!! Good God...How can that happen? Wouldn't you think your first weekend with the thing you're going to go put on 50 miles or so? Especially being the 1st Gen. Viper. It was a mind-blowing call-back to muscle with a little bit of Hot Rod thrown in...and Dodge's attempt at taking the mantle away from the Corvette.

I didn't even know the original 1st Gen Viper had a hardtop roof option until about 2 or 3 weeks ago. I thought there was a soft top shell and that's about it. Even though I'm not crazy about the looks of the Gen 1 at all, I do think it looks better roofless, however, offering the roof is the right thing to do, in my opinion.

 

[CobraCat]

What the crap?! 19 miles on the odometer!! Good God...How can that happen? Wouldn't you think your first weekend with the thing you're going to go put on 50 miles or so? Especially being the 1st Gen. Viper. It was a mind-blowing call-back to muscle with a little bit of Hot Rod thrown in...and Dodge's attempt at taking the mantle away from the Corvette.

I didn't even know the original 1st Gen Viper had a hardtop roof option until about 2 or 3 weeks ago. I thought there was a soft top shell and that's about it. Even though I'm not crazy about the looks of the Gen 1 at all, I do think it looks better roofless, however, offering the roof is the right thing to do, in my opinion.

In the 19 miles he drove the car it might have scared the hell out of him, but he loved it so much he didn't want to sell it. I recall back in the day the average insurance claim for a Viper was $15,000.

Lots of older guys buy vettes and never drive them much and the viper is a vette on roids and then some, HAHAH.

The viper as we all know is a stick and rudder car, you either sort it out or it will sort you out, for most folks it was the latter it seems.

 

[AccAkut]

19 miles could be just transit distance...

local museum has a Peugeot 205 GTi, in the double digit odo range. Bought, driven home, put in a garage, owner died - 30 years later the heirs care enough to open it

 

[RufGTI]

So many great 90s cars, so many childhood memories

993 GT2 would be great, never understood why the early NFS games never featured that car (except for NFS Porsche). The race version would be great as well

Edit: Lol, according to IGCD NFS The Run was the only major NFS to feature the 993 GT2, because EA things I guess.

 

[A3DR]

Nice to see it with some colors at last

Barely got some basic textures on it (tires borrowed from the 512TR) but at least it's sitting in game with everything UVe'd and AO baked.
Got a busy week ahead of my so I dunno when I'll get back to it, most likely over the weekend or so.

Funny thing about colors, turns out the "Viper GTS Blue" paint seen on the original NFS game wasn't available until 1996 (that's why the car in the showcase video is RED), wonder why they chose that color for the in-game car, there was only Emerald Green, Dandellion Yellow, Red and Black for both 94 and 95.

 

[9kret9]

wow, looks great already, even without all the proper texture. So cool to see another masterpiece coming to life in AC.

Another difficulty coming soon though,
and that is choosing sounds for this huge v10, as again, it's hard to find equivalent from kunos ones.

 

[A3DR]

wow, looks great already, even without all the proper texture. So cool to see another masterpiece coming to life in AC.

Another difficulty coming soon though,
and that is choosing sounds for this huge v10, as again, it's hard to find equivalent from kunos ones.

I'm open to suggestions there

 

[Shigeno427]

I'm open to suggestions there

Easy, just copy/paste the Vortex V10 sounds, and delete all the gear whine

 

[CobraCat]

Easy, just copy/paste the Vortex V10 sounds, and delete all the gear whine

I think that would be pretty spot on.

Very similar to the real thing for sure

 

[CobraCat]

These old reviews are golden !

 

[9kret9]

Easy, just copy/paste the Vortex V10 sounds, and delete all the gear whine

Yeah that would do, if only it wasn't another mod and a paid one, as well

Of course anyone who owns vortex could do that, but there need to be one to release it with.
I doubt racesim studio would agree to use their sound, but who knows...

 

[mikey79]

Nice to see it with some colors at last

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Barely got some basic textures on it (tires borrowed from the 512TR) but at least it's sitting in game with everything UVe'd and AO baked.
Got a busy week ahead of my so I dunno when I'll get back to it, most likely over the weekend or so.

Funny thing about colors, turns out the "Viper GTS Blue" paint seen on the original NFS game wasn't available until 1996 (that's why the car in the showcase video is RED), wonder why they chose that color for the in-game car, there was only Emerald Green, Dandellion Yellow, Red and Black for both 94 and 95.

Wow. Wow. With a roof as an option. Im almost speechless, this is gonna be so good.
You'r skills are something else, and with the speed you model things, its amazing !
Its already looking amazing ! Well done, well, we didnt expect anything less honestly.

 

[Shigeno427]

Yeah that would do, if only it wasn't another mod and a paid one, as well

I was (mostly) joking, I know that wouldn't really be a good idea, albeit a tempting one

 

[djtopa]

So glad you are doing this...not a fan of Viper at all but AC is lacking open top manual cars!Cant wait to drive it on Tajo.Keep up!

 

[A3DR]

Well of course the sounds of the Vortex would be awesome but that's out of the question. Still lots of work to do with texturing and stuff so I'm leaving that for last. For now enjoy some side by side shots

Despite the similarities, it ended up being a completely different model, so it's not using anything from the Vortex itself.

And here's a nice shot with the hardtop on

 

[Shigeno427]

All of those shots are awesome!

 

[Some1]

Well of course the sounds of the Vortex would be awesome but that's out of the question. Still lots of work to do with texturing and stuff so I'm leaving that for last. For now enjoy some side by side shots

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Despite the similarities, it ended up being a completely different model, so it's not using anything from the Vortex itself.

And here's a nice shot with the hardtop on
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Strangely, without the top, the car looks too wide and flat...
Very nice progress anyway!

 

[CobraCat]

Strangely, without the top, the car looks too wide and flat...
Very nice progress anyway!

FOV distortion perhaps. Look up the RT10 via image search and in some photos the front end looks super fat and thick and in other photos it looks much thinner and flatter. Lens focal length can make for some serious distortion at times.

 

[AlleyViper]

Strangely, without the top, the car looks too wide and flat...
Very nice progress anyway!

When seen in person, that "too wide" and low look makes it awesome in the same way as a Miura. Being in front of it in person is completely different than looking at pics.