Please be aware, my comment may sound harsh, and it is nothing personal, just saying, hope this helps for any other attempts to recreate any other IRL models. I see that this 'conversion job' shows as released? I tested the 1.0, and I guess except flipped textures, rest seems have the same effect. Final verdict: 2.0/10. All you had to do, is get prepackaged high poly model and do all the wizardry, however, what was accomplished, was nothing. All was done was get premade model (yet people cheer 'good job, wow, excellent mod' since all the fuss is the OE author, not this case?). 1. First thing I notice, colors. Nothing was accomplished, nothing was done, yet everything can be found online and nothing matches. Even the vanilla names. Not even a try. 2. Absolutely disgusting and lazy way was the color coding in the interior has been made. I mean, have you seen A8 D5, driven it or at least seen it in pictures? There are separate materials and ways the interior is made. 1- leather, usually dark. 2- soft aka alcantara material, different color. 3- seats leather or alcantara, usually color coded 2+3 = same color. 4 - different color combo; 5 - different color combo; all can be seen in reference as per original brochures or configurators. This is just a beginning. Such a lazy way.. 3. I bet the OE 3d model was LHD, so just a simple 'mirror 3d won't work' textures have to be flipped, I mean, it's a simple job, ain't it? As we see the B&O Tweeters (which would be too much to ask, if on ignition they would pop-out), why rest of tweeters are not matching B&O metal shielding? Simple job, simple texturing. Or getting rid of B&O 3d Advanced, if too much asked? Steering wheel wrong color coding, DOES not have different color other than dark. Some remains of the leather on paddles, nonsense virtual cockpit, not matching font, why is there a G meter in plain A8? (why exactly redline is as of 3.800rpm?) 4. Everything is wrong, flipped and the screen weirdly proportioned. Textures on lower part of dash, strange rendering. Stalk, which I've mentioned won't do the job by just flipping, that's the VAG cruise control stalk (no textures tho?) and it should be ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE WHEEL. 5. normals on quite a few polygons wrong, all that needs is to select the vertex. 6. missing door gap rubbers or something, texture on headliner is not some hard plastic/leather, but should be alcantara 7. I won't bother the unmatching virtual display, HUD is wrong-stretched and displays wrong information unrelated to base A8 8. Wrong light materials, wrong sizes of licence plates (too large), too large logos (yet time is spent by making them 'silver' and 'black', instead of dealing with proportions. 9. normals on PDC, material colors (ACC) 10. why do we have to see body colored window/door sils? 11. V6 DOES not have TT setup, but single turbo.. by the way, wheel offsets are wrong. 12. Why are we choosing strange models? 60TFSI (NOTHING to do with 3.0 V6) = aforementioned 4.0 V8 TFSI with different setup than S8.. why it needs 6.3, it's just posse.. 13. "S-line" steering wheel.. silver/chromed in place of dark glossy plastic? 14. What does this got to do with Horch, no idea..I think, that's too much to ask to make proper badging for V6s - 50TFSI/55TFSI and V8s- 60TFSI / S8.. in my opinion, rather simple job, (if that cannot be accomplished, what exactly are being modded here, except taking prefab 3d model?) if not - then 2d logo can do the job if 1:1 matching fonts can be found. 15. why does the "interior" leather look glossy, like greased with a diesel? 16. j-beams, or rather, lack of the weight, how it works... Nothing works, drives, feels like A8 D5, no work added from the author, in this state, disappointing. Unfortunately, please keep trying, but.. My suggestion: NEVER to rush on release just because release and just because million beggars begging the same question on repeat. P.S. Hold on to your pickles, more mods will be tested in near future!
Such a great Mod ! Tho is it me or the car appears to be small next to others ? Should it be rescaled ?
HI! First of all I wanted to congratulate you on the work done, because, even if the mod has some errors, I realize that there is great work behind it. If possible, I wanted to suggest 3 small changes to make: 1) When you turn on the direction indicator you hear the sound but you don't see the warning light on the dashboard 2) When you change driving modes, the names appear at the top as ttsport, ttsport+... it would be nice to change it to comfort, dynamic etc... 3) It would be nice if when you put it in dyanamic, the speedometer graphics changed to the sporty one (which is the one used in the HUD)
Very good mod, I only have one complaint and that is that you should strengthen both the rear and front driveshaft as they are a bit too fragile
If I was a mod-maker, I would say big thanks to Hans for taking his time to post such lengthy constructive criticism. And what does the author do - he says "dont tell me what to do". Real professional
alright first of i replied to him once nicely (to an older message of him) and fixed most of the issues he reported. I am glad people take their time to find issues and bugs but not if they criticize me and tell me what i should do (for example: "try harder", "dissapptionting" or "never do this but do this..." etc
Let's not patronize on no party. Just saying, I know where the 3d model comes from, in this case- expectations (and added work) should be higher. Anyway, feel free to ignore my comment and criticism, it's a free world
its a really good mod. i have a mod like this but it does not have foldable mirrors.this is a amazing thing to drive
i only know this Mod that has Foldable Mirrors if there are more please tell me. I need to say yes the Textures in the Interior are waay too glossy Rescale is planned very cool. But the Car drives well atleast for me and i really enjoy driving around with it
