thecarlover's mods - Suburban/Avalanche now available!

[strop]

wow I'm loving your work. That body does have the potential to be morphable as both a front and mid-engined car... that would be amazing, of course, only if you can actually get that to work!

We certainly do need more not-lambo bodies. The Murcielago is a good 2000s base to go on, it was far more wedge like and squarish than the ones we have.

After that, if we had the 80s and 90s not-lambo bodies I would probably pass out from sheer delight.

[Starfish94]

omg thanks. finally can build kei cars now for my jap company

[thecarlover]

Thanks guys! I'll see what I can do about a front engine in the Murciélago body, but that's very unlikely. If I can fit something in there, I doubt it'll be very big. I am planning on trying something different with the sides, and have one or two inward morphing section to better places the vents you typically see on supercars. One more like the Gallardo, and one at the bottom like the Murciélago. No guarantees it'll go to plan, but I'll give it a try.

[Oskiinus]

Thanks guys! I'll see what I can do about a front engine in the Murciélago body, but that's very unlikely. If I can fit something in there, I doubt it'll be very big. I am planning on trying something different with the sides, and have one or two inward morphing section to better places the vents you typically see on supercars. One more like the Gallardo, and one at the bottom like the Murciélago. No guarantees it'll go to plan, but I'll give it a try.

Wait... you'll work on the Murcielago body?
Make it partially non-Zonda and we're done xD

[thecarlover]

Thanks guys! I'll see what I can do about a front engine in the Murciélago body, but that's very unlikely. If I can fit something in there, I doubt it'll be very big. I am planning on trying something different with the sides, and have one or two inward morphing section to better places the vents you typically see on supercars. One more like the Gallardo, and one at the bottom like the Murciélago. No guarantees it'll go to plan, but I'll give it a try.

Wait... you'll work on the Murcielago body?
Make it partially non-Zonda and we're done xD

It won't look anything like a Zonda, it's too different to attempt with a Lamborghini body. This will be Murciélago, but with enough morphs to have the option of looking quite different. I found the McLaren body can look somewhat Zonda-ish, and that'll likely still be closer than this.

Edit: This is also the most complicated body I've done so far, so it won't be done as quickly as the others (except maybe the pickup, due to those technical issues), but I'll still have it finished soon enough if I don't get any setbacks. I hope I do it well enough, as I'm really looking forward to using it as well.

[Slim Jim]

If it's released by the 25th it'll make for the perfect Christmas gift. Thanks for all your hard work!

[thecarlover]

Progress shot! As soon as I indented the side above the shoulder line and changed the view to the back, I knew I was on the right track... I need to tweak a few things, but most of it is lining up great on its own.

[UMGaming]

looking great =)

[Oskiinus]

Okay, that looks great anyway. Would be nice option to make brand new hypercar of my company

[strop]

The kei car is so good, I immediately knew that the IT guy in my fictional car company would at all costs want to import himself an N-Box/

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The not-Murcielago body may very well end up being the true form of GG's ultimate hypercar, Mercury. It was always aiming to have that wedge like line.

[thecarlover]

The kei car is so good, I immediately knew that the IT guy in my fictional car company would at all costs want to import himself an N-Box/

The not-Murcielago body may very well end up being the true form of GG's ultimate hypercar, Mercury. It was always aiming to have that wedge like line.

The exposed intercooler is a nice touch... I don't doubt that's likely the fastest N-Box out there The Murciélago body will definitely have a larger engine bay than the MP4-12C body, so a quite large V12 will be an option for it.


Here's an obligatory progress shot for today. There was a lot more tweaking than I thought for the shape of the windows and roof, but it should be pretty smooth sailing from there. The air intake morph positions should also be pretty visible (I never realised how flat the sides of this car look without that huge intake under the doors), and I might add a bit of a morph to the intake area behind the windows, though it would be next to impossible to make it morph in such a way to completely disappear.

[strop]

Sadly, I was unable to recreate a proper S07A engine, even the turbocharged one, because it's an i3 (but eventually we'll be able to!). Also the intercooler kept sticking out no matter how small the engine is just because of the way the engine is placed, so it's not even that much riced. It did get a hefty boost from 63 to 102hp and I replaced some of the panels with carbon fiber just because, slashing a handy 150kg off the weight while the fuel economy remained <6L/100km and a loudness of 26. This is after all still supposed to be every bit as streetable as the stock car, just zippier so our computer guy can do his shady outside-of-work business all ninja like. He's a very shady character.

[Oskiinus]

Great progress on the not-Murcielago! Hope it can fit 6500cc V12

[strop]

even better with 11L V12

Okay maybe even that much is too big. Wait, too big!? NOTHING IS TOO BIG.

[thecarlover]

Sadly, I was unable to recreate a proper S07A engine, even the turbocharged one, because it's an i3 (but eventually we'll be able to!). Also the intercooler kept sticking out no matter how small the engine is just because of the way the engine is placed, so it's not even that much riced. It did get a hefty boost from 63 to 102hp and I replaced some of the panels with carbon fiber just because, slashing a handy 150kg off the weight while the fuel economy remained <6L/100km and a loudness of 26. This is after all still supposed to be every bit as streetable as the stock car, just zippier so our computer guy can do his shady outside-of-work business all ninja like. He's a very shady character.

In that case I might have to tweak the .lua a bit to prevent that, or is it only visible because of the grill you placed down there? I can always shorten the front overhang (already at -5) and move the firewall back to compensate and keep the engine bay size.

even better with 11L V12

Okay maybe even that much is too big. Wait, too big!? NOTHING IS TOO BIG.

No guarantees of what I can do with the engine bay, but I suspect an 11L V12 just might be possible. Maybe.