Released American 80's Fullsize Series 2.1

He he it's fun to see that when doing what is written in first post's description things are working better

By the way it's a black Delta 88 but nevermind.

 

hey man, it's a mod, i am not paid for making that.
So if you don't like it, that's one thing, but asking if i'm planning on remaking all the interiors just to fit your liking is a bit demanding and rude, don't you think ? Considering i like the result anyway. I made some textures using small bits of photos, but then i composed them, made a lot of manipulations in photoshop, and made all the normal map hand painted myself.
I never do just what you think i do, just slap textures and let it go.Just look at the cars in "normals" mode ingame and you'll see the work done on them. I spent days only on the interior textures.
If you want to see something made differently, just make it yourself. For me it's just pretty okay for a free mod.

Anyway i've done this mod for learning purpose so no, i'm not planning on making any textures upgrades on it.

 

I'm happy with the result and i can't make everybody to love it. I did my best on those interiors, but not everybody must like it, this is freedom of tastes.

Here are some educational images with details on the big work that was involved in every details of this interior, so i'm pretty upset by the way you're asking things and the way you reduct this all to the cluster instrument that is indeed a photo, a lot reworked may you disagree :

- I spent hours and hours on how i wanted the normals and speculars map to react, with average bright plastic and very soft velours fabric :


Even the head rests have very tiny bumps to simulate velours texture :


Hand made heightmap dashboard area before converting into normal maps :



Normal maps result overview :



dashboard textures overview, the cluster isn't the one used in the car, it has it's own gauge map :



So you may think all of this is just photo slapped into 3D model. But you know what ? i wanted to do an oldsmobile as close and realistic as i own one, so i used photos of my car and on the internet to have the more closer aspect as possible. Please tell me the interest of painting it all ? How do you do fake wood that looks accurate without using a photo ? i'm interested ... I mean, without spending three hours on just making fake wood painting for a similar result.


Also i don't care about the way things are done for a free mod, all that i care about is the result. I wanted it to look like an Oldsmobile interior.

So let's see how all of this is made: I used small bits of photos, that i've duplicated, merged, arranged to get this properly adjusted and fit the normal map work.
Colors were reworked all to get the result that i expected. Then i extracted from that work all the chrome area, and made the specular map react as it shoud, bright or matte, for every tiny areas.



Now let's see how the seats fabric are made on their diffuse part. You may think this is just photo and boom, but no, i spent maybe 8 hours to set it up and looks good ingame :




So let's see some steps involved in the achievment :

composting of the different squares parts, based on several photos, assembled together :



Then adding buttons with a dark smooth outline to make them pop and cast shadows :



adding tiny grain to add more details :



Then detailled dark dots pattern extracted by hand from a photo and adjusted :



Scratch made parts of the dashboard :



Sorry for the long explanation, it's not only to you that i'm answering, but i feel upset and i can't just let you say i just used photos and so that it has to be redone.

Asking if i could consider remaking the interiors is as nice as asking somebody that did an oil painting with all his heart "could you repaint it all 'cause i don't like it that much" .

Don't get me wrong, I like crits, i like improving, and i'm constantly putting myself into questions, and i'm never self satisfied. But there is a way of telling things, and if you had thought about it a bit more you could have avoid yourself for asking things the way you did.

My purpose wasn't to make something "dev quality", it was to do something that i have pleasure to do, and learn.

 

That's okay, but there is a huge gap between telling the cluster only is too much "photo-ish" and asking for reconsidering all the interiors.

I've made many changes in the Caprice Classic textures following what the Beta test group reported me as constructive crits.

 

The thing why the textures and so on probably look off is beam ng itself as all wood applications kinda look off wich is a problem sometimes

 

You're comparing a car that is all imaginary and not expected to be looking like a real one, with a car that i made for myself, that i wanted to look like my OWN !
So i want the velours to look like the one in my car, and the fake wood too. That's why this is a mod based on real car and not official content. It looks different.

The cluster being one issue, that's okay, but getting critics for choices for the overall interior is not nice.

Again, my purpose wasn't to make it look like the official cars. All mods i can see about real cars in GTA are using photo bits.

I take note of your crit about the cluster, i'm not that closed minded. You always speak about the whole interior while having issue with the cluster.
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The cluster isn't clear, that's okay. If your hating all the textures of the cars, then i say no, this is not true, but your opinion. telling using photobits is bad is not an objective critic, it's a personal taste.
Cluster being not clear is a fact. So i take note, but i won't fix it because i don't have time for modding currently.

 

Could you make the gear indicator in the Caprice move?

 

yep this is somthing forgotten indeed. When an update will be done but i can't currently tell when.

 

You can tell there is alot of work put into this mod. I enjoy it very much, even when my computer doesn't. That being said, I can't wait to see future updates. PS. I love the nascar engine.

 

My version has already the manual transmission indeed. But as said before, currently my professional obligations keep me away from free modding currently.
But i will keep you informed.

 

The transfercase is in the gearbox if i remember well, i can't start the game right now.