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Post Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:02 am

Car Designer Demo 2

Another video showing off the Car Body Designer within Automation. Enjoy!


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Post Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:11 am

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Most excellent :) looking much better than the first one too! Now the possibilities seems to be more or less endless. Very sleek looks! Great work.
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Post Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:44 am

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Amazing work you guys are doing!
It really shocking how well you can move the parts around the body.
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Post Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:16 am

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brilliant once again more polished than the first video aswell. :D
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Post Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:01 am

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Looks brilliant! Seeing the use of the grills and multiple lights has made it feel even closer to release and seem a very flexible system. One thing I may ask though...........will there be an option to choose the car base colour in the designer? As that solid blue seems very....unfinished.
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Post Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:39 am

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Love it! That is fantastic. It was very nice seeing the two different model era styling and how the headlights, taillights, and grill placements function. By far this is the game I look forward to beyond any other.
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Post Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:53 am

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So... What would I need to do to add new fixtures?
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Post Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:13 am

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looks great - can't wait to have ago
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Post Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:57 am

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Wow, looks really great and fun. Can you adjust the thickness of the pillars around the windows?
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Post Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:28 am

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robt100 wrote:Looks brilliant! Seeing the use of the grills and multiple lights has made it feel even closer to release and seem a very flexible system. One thing I may ask though...........will there be an option to choose the car base colour in the designer? As that solid blue seems very....unfinished.


Yep, thats just the colour its set at for testing, you'll be able to choose :)
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Post Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:29 am

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Monkey_Mitchell wrote:Wow, looks really great and fun. Can you adjust the thickness of the pillars around the windows?


Maybe - When setting up the "Rigging" I try and give as much control as possible for that paticular car - pillar thickness would be quite a hard one to do though on most cars
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Post Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:44 am

Re: Car Designer Demo 2

What about control over the curves of the more rounded 60's coupes?.. Will we have much adjustment over that?

I imagine that might be quite a bit more difficult to get right than modern cars with their boring, mostly straight lines.

I think it would require multiple adjustments for roof lines, and wheel arches and things like that to really get a good amount of customization.
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Post Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:31 pm

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Difficult to say, its pretty much a case of me making a model and then implimenting as many controls as I can get to work well.


What doesn't work well in paticular: -

Multiple handles controling the same part of the car, so for example if you have a handle controling the height of the entire roof, it usually makes it harder to have one to change the roofline.

Anything that effects the window shape is difficult to do nicely, but can work well.

Anything with harsh, square shapes (like 80s cars) is hard because if you don't get it exactly right, you get kinks in the lines and it looks like you've crashed it into something!






So curvy cars are easier, thus you'd have more control over a 60s car most likely
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Post Wed Jun 22, 2011 1:47 pm

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Is the car designer and chassis designer separate? Like if you go with the width fenders would you have to manually increase the track width to get the wheels to sit just right?

Overall looks amazing. Every update gets me more excited.
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Post Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:59 pm

Re: Car Designer Demo 2

Yep, they'll be seperate.

As there are only a fixed set of track widths you can choose, it'll mainly be based on what tyres/wheels you put on it for fender/flare width
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