The "What Are You Working On?" Thread

[Sirknight224]

currently wip. Much further developed but had to take a break due to car travel.

 

[Kyuubeey]

Now this is more like it. These flow lines make way more sense than the stuff I was coming up with.

Thanks to my friend @Modek for giving me some help and drawing an example mesh, which I SHAMELESSLY RIPPED OFF for this. Although the rear quarter is mine and I will probably modify everything else a bit, so .

What I learned:
A: Do the mesh like you would draw the main lines: you are a traditional artist, you know these things. Design first topology second.

B: Try to translate things as evenly as possible, with X Y and Z controls mainly for height and width. It keeps a good, clean flow. Later, (probably) tweak with the mouse.

EDIT:

Hmm, not so sure about that front. I guess it'd be time to bust out the 2D program and draw a bit over the front end.

Although done with a mouse, because I'm too lazy to set up my tablet, that's right next to me , I think this is about what I'd want. I can get rid of the tri too,but I think it'll be unnecessary unless there's indeed a clear light cover modeled and it needs that specific nice curved edge. Eventually I intend to model the actual light part, and I think it sets up nicely from this.

 

[AadHofman]

First draft of new Sierra sounds (interior). To be tweaked, for sure.

 

[Kyuubeey]

Alright, decided to just do it how I should have from the beginning...

Modelled a "high poly" subdiv mesh of the light part, that I will use as a guide to place the body. Not super accurate,but not super inaccurate either. Forgot to take a pic of the flow, but it's reasonable. Much more so than what I produced trying to do it the other way. I'll simplify it and fit it to the body later, anyway.

EDIT:

And here it is grafted into the body as the same object. Of course, old object still saved and not visible. Baby steps...

EDIT 2: Oops, I mistranslated the light by accident so the shape is indeed off. Time to fix!

Hood's wonky, maybe now it's time to graft that raised part into it. Then I guess I could get to photomatching.

 

[AadHofman]

First draft of new Sierra sounds, exterior.

 

[Kyuubeey]

Looks reasonably accurate. I'm still puzzled by the front. The shape is most definitely the same as in the blueprints. It's just hard to make sure, because I'd need to match the exact roll and offset in addition to the traditional axis to get a good comparison from an angle like this.

I guess I'll find a picture from above and compare to that. Far easier.

EDIT:

Seems the fender arches are too wide, perhaps.

 

[Steinar Pladsen]

First draft of new Sierra sounds (interior). To be tweaked, for sure.

Where's the turbo whistle - it is much more sound it that turbo
(did you see the video we had from Tom Einar Aaserud?)

 

[AadHofman]

Where's the turbo whistle - it is much more sound it that turbo
(did you see the video we had from Tom Einar Aaserud?)

I thought there's too much turbo whistle already. If you mean the "chirping" sound, very prominent in the Aaserud video, it is my understanding that when the boost is much more restricted, like in a rally spec, the bov is much more active. You can hear some chirping in 1980's BTCC footage, but not much.

 

[Kyuubeey]

Tweaked the fender arches a bit, and small mesh improvements still. The car is slowly becoming more of a reality: until I will notice I completely ****ed up something that will ruin the entire project.

To now seems reasonable. Also good progress on physics.

Need to tweak the area just next to the bonnet line on the side, but that's okay. I will forever need to tweak *something*. See you after Half Life 3 when I can call the mesh completed.

 

[Steinar Pladsen]

First draft of new Sierra sounds, exterior.

I thought there's too much turbo whistle already. If you mean the "chirping" sound, very prominent in the Aaserud video, it is my understanding that when the boost is much more restricted, like in a rally spec, the bov is much more active. You can hear some chirping in 1980's BTCC footage, but not much.

Tom Einar saying it is more respond in the engine, even when you had high geared cars, you could easily just put on with the gears

 

[Steinar Pladsen]

UGH - Why is the BTCC not visible in AC? Should it be below the ordinary street RS500?

 

[Ghoults]

Looks reasonably accurate. I'm still puzzled by the front. The shape is most definitely the same as in the blueprints. It's just hard to make sure, because I'd need to match the exact roll and offset in addition to the traditional axis to get a good comparison from an angle like this.

I guess I'll find a picture from above and compare to that. Far easier.

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EDIT:

Seems the fender arches are too wide, perhaps.

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Make sure to compare against couple of images at least. Typically when photomatching you get lens distortion which means especially the edges of the images have distortion. In worst case if you have a cropped image from a larger image you'll get ununiform distortion which can make the pic totally useless.

 

[AadHofman]

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[Steinar Pladsen]

My mod doesn't have anything else but the Gr.A version...

? You did not understand It was not visible, but it is fixed now, it was an extra catalog
WE are testing now, together with Tom Einar. More comments will come here ;-)

 

[AadHofman]

? You did not understand It was not visible, but it is fixed now, it was an extra catalog
WE are testing now, together with Tom Einar. More comments will come here ;-)

Do note that I haven't uploaded the car with new sounds yet. I'd appreciate if feedback was kept in the mod thread, or private.

 

[Steinar Pladsen]

Brakes: to much brakes rear! Ajusted to 70% front
Car behaviour: To nervous and unstabile comparing the ordinary Group A car.
(we continuing testing now

 

[AadHofman]

You can always adjust it. As I said, in the appropriate thread please.

 

[Steinar Pladsen]

You can always adjust it. As I said, in the appropriate thread please.

YEs, we have adjusted to 70 on the breaks.
- Now we struggle with the back of the car. It losing the back even with dumps in the road. Just like it was a hill..

 

[AadHofman]

Errr, what? Please post in the mod thread. This thread is not for this kind of discussion. How many times I have to repeat it?

 

[Kyuubeey]

"I'd appreciate if feedback was kept in the mod thread, or private."

Found some nice onboard footage to nail these angles from. Just need to keep matching to front and from this angle. Doing it mostly by eye: I'm a 2D artist so I trust my eye somewhat in simple curves like this. Complicated photomatching for something like this, if mistakes in the setup were to arise, could easily lead me astray.