WIP's (and other fun items)

I can't believe it ...

Beautiful !

A good looking car that would make a great next project for you Marian

MG421982 wrote:

How do you feel about this little, low-line roof and unsuccessful racer?!    I guess there wasn't much to ask from a 2.0L Inline6 170HP engine back in 1953... although some might point the finger at the 1952 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL (W194) which won Le Mans in 1952 with an engine producing the same amount of power.

Maserati A6GCS/53 Pininfarina Berlinetta???

NEChris wrote:

Maserati A6GCS/53 Pininfarina Berlinetta???

True that.

GeeDee wrote:

A good looking car that would make a great next project for you Marian

Of course, my dear Watson!!
DITTO, DITTO!!!!!!!!

GeeDee wrote:

A good looking car that would make a great next project for you Marian

IT IS the current project. Actually, while working on this mod I discovered the Morgan problem.

WOW, looks very good!!!

keep it up mate

Great news Marian !!!

charger69 wrote:

WOW, looks very good!!!

Indeed. Simraceway is quite identical to GTL when it comes to file structure and mapping. Every single part is mapped completely and have its own shading, unlike Forza stuff, where most parts are mapped to just some simple coloured squares, without any shading. But I have to say that, in my opinion, the shading in GTL is somehow too strong compared to reality, so I don't see GTL as the benchmark regarding this chapter.

BTW, does anybody know if there's an automatic way to decrease the number of polygons for a 3D part?!?!? More exactly, I guess a modder builds BODY LOD1, then how he builds BODY LOD2, LOD3 and LODS4?! Don't tell me he builds them from scratch! Thing is there's only 1 LOD for this mod and so far I had to make the shadow based on this LOD... and it's BIG - 1.6mb.

hi MG,
I think each a bit serious 3d modeler have some polygon optimizer (check for some 3dsmax tutorials, eg. for the Optimize modifier, Multires modifier, Polygon Cruncher...) or there are some 3d mesh optimizer standalone tools (eg. the MeshLab), I quess.
note: such procedures may/will kill or deform the original texture uv-mapping.

when creating the car from scratch, it all depends on the artists approach - he just can have some lowpoly model as a base and he just use some subpatch/mesh smooth modificator to make it higer poly (with some kind of manual tweaking) there or here.

examples - 3ds max Turbo smooth method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Ea0Irkfwo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5DkbJzUONM

here we can notice the artists just did an ugly polygonal base shape and then they applied a smooth modificator to make it higher poly. it should work same way backwards...

... as you can see, creating a nice looking highpoly model is relatively easy.
a true art is to make a nice looking lowpoly / optimized model infact

In case you thought there should be more Gullwings around, here's another mod:









HAPPY NEW YEAR!

MG's mods are never enough!
Happy New Year

MG

Just love the gullwings Marian m8!!

GeeDee wrote:

Just love the gullwings Marian m8!!

Yeah, they're much better than Bingowings

Zee wrote:

GeeDee wrote:

Just love the gullwings Marian m8!!

Yeah, they're much better than Bingowings

I should coco!!! Happy New Year zee m8y!!

GeeDee wrote:

Zee wrote:

GeeDee wrote:

Just love the gullwings Marian m8!!

Yeah, they're much better than Bingowings

I should coco!!! Happy New Year zee m8y!!

Same to you and yours Hope the new years a great one for ya

MGA Mk.II

Great !!!

Ooooooh!!!!!!

http://www.mg-cars.org.uk/mga.html

http://www.barcboys.com/MGA%20home.htm

http://www.barcboys.com/1963MGAmkIIDlx.htm