WIP Beta released Phool Start 3.2

Thankfully, not for long...



Now, it's important to clarify that not only quite a lot of work is still missing (mostly redoing all the previous configs+wagon ones) but also this will be a brand new mod, since I started from scratch, I'll maybe keep this thread as the discussion thread, but the repo mod will be 100% different (that's also why I'm not sure about keeping this thread alive, since it's linked to the dead mod...)

 

omg

 

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ll there be a Hirochi version?

 

pls make one varision that’s shamelessly CHEAP like no radio, crank windows no ac and powered by the hirochi talent engine. A shitbox so gutless is can barely move it’s own weight and you can forget about the highway lol

 

"hirochi start'
it's in the name already
nvm

 

Again, yes and no. Phool is the brand created by the joint venture of Hirochi and Cherrier for this version, so Hirochi is obviously involved, but a standalone Hirochi as such with Hirochi logos will not exist this time around.

That would be the Start Super, which already had everything you are describing there in the old version. And this time it might get even more pathetic, I'll see as I go.

 

what about a phool cherrier?

 

Nah, way too modern, I think the base Vivace already serves well its purpose, re-engineering it into something according for that time in those markets would mean so much work it would be a separate car of its own, take into account the Start would have a production run from 2014 into 2020, just when the original Sunburst ended production until it was too old and cheap to be sold even as a Phool, and by 2020, cars more dignified than this were already sold in those markets:

 

if I were you I would change the taillights a little bit and make them all halogen

 

“Phool” is a pretty strange name

 

It's flower in Hindi, hence the badge (and the letters, made out of the petals in the badge itself. And yes, RHD will be part of the mod since it's supposed to be mainly for markets in the area.

 

It's nice to see the Sunburst Start getting revived.
By the way, are the parts interchangeable with the Sunburst itself?

 

Mostly yes, but I can't guarantee right now weird things could happen...everything is designed to work together (parts + skins) so that's something to have in mind.

Anyway...big milestone completed. RHD conversion. Since again, is a car mainly for Indian markets, that was mandatory...and yes, I took into account everything, the door panels, the steering column, the brake servo, wipers, mirrors...even the seats, since the interior camera is now set in the seats (plus the cargo goes into the passenger seat in RHD config too)

All versions will be RHD standard, but I do offer every single RHD Start part as LHD, so you can build one if you want.

 

will it be a separate vehicle? it should be

 

Will try, not sure right now, so I'll see, first I want to finish the mod itself, which is now very close to completion finally:

 

Hey @JorgePinto how do you make badges for cars? I wanted to try to make badges. I know you need like normal maps and stuff but how do you get it to be like that?

 

Tomorrow the Start lives again And better (or worse, depending on your view) than ever!

I simply open the needed files (in this case, every material with 'sunburst2_lettering' on its name) and edit what I need following how the badge is done in every one, for example, the metallic map is the badge in red, with negative spaces in black, color map is well, the base color with a pinch of blur, and of course, the normal map...easiest thing is to do the metallic map, and upload it here:

NormalMap-Online

You'll get a normal file that can be used almost straight away (I normally delete the blue channel and make sure to save it as a normal map with the Intel Texture Works plugin for Photoshop, otherwise the normal map gets crazy and shows weird in the game)

 

is this able to do in paint.net? ahh imm so excited for the start!

 

Don't know really...should be. I'm very old fashioned, still using Photoshop CS6 for most of my texture works, but hey, still works.

Hopefully the Start is worth the small wait To be honest I already got the logo ready the very first day the Sunburst remaster was out, but of course, everything else took a while...

 

in the mod did you figure out how to make it a separate vehicle?