That reminds me from the time, when I though it would be cool to adjust brake balance by pulling handbrake just a notch or two to have brake shoes bit closer to drums, that was NA diesel FWD junk vehicle, so there was frozen rain and road was like a skating ring, I had bald tires and so it comes that at one corner someone came at me middle of the road, just slight tap of the brakes send me spinning on the field with my groceries flying in cabin Ah to be young and invulnerable once again Well, at least I would not look totally out of place in Fintray, that is automobile for gentlemen that have almost got out of teenager phase, almost
Since my wisdom teeth are being a gigantic pain(literally), I haven't been studying much... I don't know why but the timing is perfect(/s), right when I have exams. They have to be removed but the hospital doesn't have time until 19-11-2018. I can't focus with this pain so I do something that doesn't require 100% of my focus: mod. Spent too much time on the rear suspension yesterday. And it still doesn't work well... I redid parts of the front suspension today, the location wasn't right. Who doesn't love all kinds of blueprints That are all off by a bit. I also remodelled the front fenders, hood and part of the grille: If someone really likes to make a rear axle with good leaf springs, PM me, I have all info about the irl thing and stuff for you to use. I will do it myself otherwise. As said in the dev screens: I really love this update, I can finally add rotation dampers with the new system and operate the softtop with the new hydros. So I implemented that. The frame of the softtop is working well now, I only have to find out a way to simulate the cloth without spikes and randomness. I guess it's coming along decently but I'm not sure whether it will meet your expectations.
I never have high expectations. For me it's the type if mod, and I must say that you are doing a fantastic job. Besides the right hand drive gives me a chance to simulate my dads old fiber fab mg kit car.
Is speedometer will be only imperial or are you going add a metric option? Just wondering, I wouldn't care if you won't add the option.
Wood will be an option for the luxe version, normal versions have the painted dash(TD didn't come with wood) Imperial only, maybe a second set of gauges for other engines
That does look pretty good, I'd have to say... But one thing that bothers me slightly when looking at the dash, is that the gauge housings & the whole silver (white?) panel look a bit too low poly. Once you see it, then it does catch your eye every time
Something that might be useful (from https://polycount.com/discussion/126662/triangle-counts-for-assets-from-various-videogames): Forza Motorsport 3 LOD0: 172753 polys LOD1: 45074 polys LOD2: 21802 polys LOD3: 13134 polys LOD4: 6360 polys LOD5: 2556 polys Hi-res cockpit: 79845 polys Forza Motorsport 4 500,000-1,000,000 for auto vista, Lamborghini Reventon - 562,786 Halo Warthog 798,005 Gran Turismo 3, PS2, 2001 Cars - ~2,000-4,000 polygons Gran Turismo 4, PS2, 2004 Cars - ~2,000-5,000 polygons Gran Turismo 5: Prologue, PS3, 2007 Cars - 200,000 polygons (probably interior + exterior) Gran Turismo 5 Cars ~500K photomode Total polycount of the frame is important too, number of vehicles planned to run same time affects that a lot of course, go on map without car and see how many polys there are, 6 million can be rendered with pretty much anything game worthy, WCUSA has been 10 000 000 with single car. Anything less than 100 000 polys in a car is probably not worth it performance wise, but UV mapping etc. of course is another thing. For textures, limiting number is better than limiting size. Least amount of materials is good for this game version. I do agree with Sithhy, that there could be bit more polys and maybe texture sizes could be 4K or at least 2K for crispiness, 8K is not too bad for a car, ok I'm wishing again, but Of course we don't have lods for cars I guess, not sure if there is any way to get lods for cars or if those are done automatically, but adding 10 000 polys to any of the cars is not really causing any performance hit. It is interesting there as over 10 years ago polycounts started to be quite small impact to performance if at least bit of sanity was used when making mesh, but even today first thought of performance optimizing is polycount, while it is far more important to weld UV maps to big islands avoiding seams and having material count low. I was very surprised to learn that polycount has almost zero impact on performance with today's hardware. But then there is other things, like time, making high poly takes more time, making UV maps can take huge amount of time etc. Anyway Fintray is progressing nicely
Its something to think on, whats the sound of one hand clapping and also if a Tree falls in the forest does it make a sound?
Well maybe learn to respect that it takes time and effort to build mods a good mod can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to build, depending on the modders input into it, sorry about the off topic stuff there thought I would have some fun
Well half true it depends on the modders capabilities and understanding of a mod @Blijo can jbeam pretty quickly an example is the bus so @Blijo could actually probably do it within 3 weeks from now so dont go offtopic about string and shit
Thanks This car is almost completely scratch made. This means that I make everything myself. I'm a slow modeller and texturer and that takes a lot of time. Other things that take a lot of time are things like the rear suspension (idk why) and the jbeam of the softtop since that's quite complex. The bus for instance is made from almost modular parts and is thus super easy to jbeam(and far from done) So yes, I would be able to finish this in 3 weeks but I can't finish it in 3 weeks since I study, am a scout leader and have some sort of social life And I work on it whenever I want, nobody can tell me when to work on it since I do this for fun and not for you
