The "What Are You Working On?" Thread

[DanTDBV]

The au2parts Transit skins project has grown.
From 4 or 5 to at least 12 versions.

I have green lights for sharing the skins here and have been allowed to use the names of some of my former colleagues on the racing versions as drivers. I am very grateful for that.

I have been working on licence plates in Inkscape for 7 of them. The vector work is complete, now I need to do some bevel and emboss in photoshop and create normal maps.

The grayish area between the blue and yellow represent holographic copy protection strips.

I have recreated all of the letters and numbers used on the current Danish licence plates normally used on motorcycles, cars, vans and trucks.

I have yet to drive the Transit, as I have decided, that I will finish at least one of the skins first.

Happy modding

 

[stingray_SIX_TWO]

Brother's unite...incredibly these cars were on sale at the same time.

It was a bit of work getting the model scale and rotation right plus a myriad of other issues. Thanks to @garyjpaterson @mclarenf1papa @AccAkut @LilSki and whoever I probably forgot who endured my question assault today. You guys are what makes this community!

Onto the million other things I got to do now

ALPINA, Baby.

PS: The dimensions are set correctly now at length 4780mm width 1855mm and height 1330mm

 

[stingray_SIX_TWO]

From this...

to this...

Thanks @garyjpaterson ...onto the wheelbase question tomorrow!

 

[stingray_SIX_TWO]

Align using data...wheelbase is off by 5cm but all else is rotating, turning, aligning the way it should:

My subsurf had to be taken out because the main body blew the vert limit of the editor so lots of modeling to do...

My first transparency shader in KS Editor...yes I need to model the insides of the pop up headlights

Oh and for the modellers out there using Blender, this only started working with correct orientation and scale after I set scale in Blender to metric/meters and exported with scaling FBXALL set to .001 and -Z forward. Guess Blender has changed the FBX exporter settings somewhere down the road.

 

[stingray_SIX_TWO]

And the final step of my initial readiness test is loading it up ingame, drove one lap. Feels heavy and planted but lots of work to do on the suspension and, needless to say, the model. That said, it's loading and behaving as it should, currently borrowing sound from an S85 M3 V8.

THAT is a camera I will keep in the F6 collection .

 

[Porsche962C]

Well, I for one am sad to see that TWO's Circuit Mont Tremblant mod wip has been deleted. Was hoping it would be completed eventually. Suppose it happens. Does anyone know if the project has been ended?

 

[Mascot]

Well, I for one am sad to see that TWO's Circuit Mont Tremblant mod wip has been deleted. Was hoping it would be completed eventually. Suppose it happens. Does anyone know if the project has been ended?

Yeah, abandoning a project is understandable - people's priorities change, they lose interest, whatever - but why delete it?

 

[shmafoozius]

Most probably so they do NOT get bombed with "is there an update?" messages.

 

[Tony SSS]

Hello you all, I just want to say that from next year on, once I will learn 3D modeling and modding cars, I'm planning to make something ambitious and unique which no one ever thought about (maybe): recreate all of the Gr.4/3/B cars (excluding the Vision GT ones tho) from Gran Turismo SPORT with their proper interiors and templates too so that we can all make our own liveries just like in that game.

Now I already covered this in two threads I made, one that I created about my modding projects and the other on the Mod/App Requests thread, honestly I will only take part on modeling the exterior of all the cars and skinning them + making their templates, while all of you modders here can either take part in interior modeling or physics creation for all the cars, since I honestly don't think I have the skills to do either of these things. lol

(I may probably need tons of pictures from some of you of a Gr.4/3/B you happen to own in GTS from tons of angles and possibly the interior too, but I don't know if that news about taking pictures of interiors was actually true or not...)

 

[Blamer]

 

[DanTDBV]

My 3 first au2parts skins are done.
It is fictional racing versions of the livery, as it was when i worked for the company.

I will also do a couple of racing versions of the current livery.

Happy modding

 

[stingray_SIX_TWO]

Now that the car is set up in the editor and driveable modeling can continue. First up the lights beginning with the light strip. Was fortunate enough to find some spare parts pictures to get the signal and reflector bit right...

From this:

To this:

To this:

On to the pop ups and rear lights. These headlight units have 6 materials (headlight glas, blinker glas, chrome, black plastic, bulbs and reflector unit).

 

[stingray_SIX_TWO]

And the pop ups...

It'll take a while before it looks like this in game

 

[w219]

Great work you did here. Great motivation for those like me who are way less talented than you in 3d modelling.

 

[Danny kung]

Yeah, abandoning a project is understandable - people's priorities change, they lose interest, whatever - but why delete it?

I've never known the answer to this question.

Anyways. I'm working on my driving skills, but I just uploaded the most unfinished track, check it out if you have the time to get lost in a track. lol

You read that correctly...409 MPH in a 787b...a weird little feature of my track

 

[stingray_SIX_TWO]

Great work you did here. Great motivation for those like me who are way less talented than you in 3d modelling.

Appreciate the love man. Wouldn't call myself talented just yet, I been learning by doing mostly and benefited from this great community and all the Pros willing to share and guide along the way.

Believe me you can do whatever you want, won't be easy, won't be quick and the payoff is a long way out but you can do it.

Just start somewhere and keep going, this car is not finished by any means but recognizable and in game now and I started with this photo matching:

And then here...

To here:

To here...

The photo matching technique really helped my motivation in the beginning!

 

[Danny kung]

That Alpina is one of my favourites. Are you going to put the big 5.0 in it? Stunner

 

[w219]

I heard about photo matching thanks to you on this subject so i tried it without sucess. Then i discovered a great addon BLAM but now i can not find good shots of a 190 to use . I plan on forgetting this one in order to model a car we own but i like the 190 . It will do 3 years i work with blender and now i am into the car modelling, it seems i have everything to discover.

Edit : in order to avoid double post, i edit this one.

I got bored by the problems i had with the 190 so i tried blueprints of several cars .
Then i found one which works well for the moment, i am extremely happy.
I let you guess what model it is.
Hint : It is a Mercedes and it is related to the 190.

 

[stingray_SIX_TWO]

That Alpina is one of my favourites. Are you going to put the big 5.0 in it? Stunner

Well yes but also the 5.7 based on the S70B56 so not the regular 5.7L 387hp V12 found in the E38 B12 5.7 but the 416hp variant found in the E31 B12 5.7 Coupé based on the 850CSi will also be thrown in .

So there’ll be four cars initially:

- BMW 850i 1989 6 speed 299hp
- BMW 840Ci 1994 6 speed 286hp
- ALPINA B12 5.0 1993 auto 349hp
- ALPINA B12 5.7 Shift-Tronic 1996 + B12 5.7 1992 6 speed (as upgrade) 416hp

 

[Feliciano da Silva]

Well yes but also the 5.7 based on the S70B56 so not the regular 5.7L 387hp V12 found in the E38 B12 5.7 but the 416hp variant found in the E31 B12 5.7 Coupé based on the 850CSi will also be thrown in .

So there’ll be four cars initially:

- BMW 850i 1989 6 speed 299hp
- BMW 840Ci 1994 6 speed 286hp
- ALPINA B12 5.0 1993 auto 349hp
- ALPINA B12 5.7 Shift-Tronic 1996 + B12 5.7 1992 6 speed (as upgrade) 416hp

I do not know if you know www.e31.net