thecarlover's mods - Suburban/Avalanche now available!

[squidhead]

With the way morphs work, I can't give the option between curvy nose and flat nose. I'm not making this as an S14, but rather as a pony car for ~2005, since the wheelbase on the S14 is 20 cm shorter than the Mustang's. Basically a smaller, nimbler, more affordable muscle car. So while I will try to maximise the morphs, it will essentially come out looking like a much smaller Challenger.

Well, I can not say I know how morphs work, but I thought that a charger daytona type nose could be flattened into a regular charger style grille, but I might be wrong. But yeah, a small muscle is a great idea. I'm thinking if this is out early enough I'll see if I can get it into AMWEC

[thecarlover]

With the way morphs work, I can't give the option between curvy nose and flat nose. I'm not making this as an S14, but rather as a pony car for ~2005, since the wheelbase on the S14 is 20 cm shorter than the Mustang's. Basically a smaller, nimbler, more affordable muscle car. So while I will try to maximise the morphs, it will essentially come out looking like a much smaller Challenger.

Well, I can not say I know how morphs work, but I thought that a charger daytona type nose could be flattened into a regular charger style grille, but I might be wrong. But yeah, a small muscle is a great idea. I'm thinking if this is out early enough I'll see if I can get it into AMWEC

Depends on the morph to some extent. While the design might let me morph it to be at least somewhat curvy, the smoothing groups will destroy any illusion of that. With the smoothing of surfaces, if I smooth the front with the sides, reflections will be really weird around those 90 degree angles, but with the separate smoothing, when curving it the reflections won't line up with the sides at that will be weird as well. It really all depends on the model, and both those types of front ends are just not possible here while looking good.

[thecarlover]

Trans Sport has been updated!

That was the last of the models to update, so now my attention is entirely on the pony car. I'm hoping to have it done by next week, but I'm so busy with school that I can't commit to any set date.

[ohm1996]

Hey thecarlover, I saw a bug in a Trans Sport aka U-Series: weird rear window deform (cargo variant only, normal variant not affected).

[thecarlover]

@ohm1996: I'll look into it tomorrow, but that doesn't surprise me. I seem to have endless morphing issues with the Trans Sport.

Not much to show yet, with the ends still being flat, but here's the pony car so far:

[thecarlover]

Updated the Trans Sport again!

[thecarlover]

Pony car mesh is done and textured (but not fully smoothed), though I see that I should curve the roof upward a bit more...

[vmo]

The turbosmooth option is the best. Select square option or triangle.

[Madrias]

I like the looks of that! An angry little mini-muscle car. Looking forward to being able to build with it.

[thecarlover]

Coming soon...

[Oskiinus]

Looks pretty modern

[squidhead]

Looks pretty tiny. Will it be able to house a big v8?

[thecarlover]

It's substantially smaller than a Mustang, with a wheelbase of 2.5 m. That one holds a 6.6L V8 with some room to spare, and I did expand the engine bay slightly since. It should be able to take a 7.0L+ V8, but I haven't tested that yet. Engine bay is also fairly narrow, so there's limited space for turbos with a large V8.

[squidhead]

Nice!

[TrackpadUser]

Looks very nice for sure.

Any plans on making a scaled up version for proper american muscle boat action?