Cars Matra MS650 Work in Progress

CaptainLykaios · Jan 28, 2022

As I have mentioned on one of my previous entries on Special Stage Route 5, I have been doing a project alongside the famous track from Gran Turismo series. Well I am now presenting the project that I have been working on and its the Matra MS650, a famous race car from the 1969 Le Mans endurance.
Its currently about halfway through production with few things left to do like the engine parts and engine cover, wing mirror, texturing the cockpit, interior and the aformentioned little details I need as well as create normal maps for any part that needs it.

However here it is.

NightEye87 · Jan 28, 2022

Nice! Looking good

Try to smooth out the front wheel arch, and fix the polygonflow on the bonnet.

Eugene Abramoff · Jan 28, 2022

Looks great!

Rodger Davies · Jan 28, 2022

Looking excellent sir, very nice!

TabsGaming42 · Jan 28, 2022

Hello ! If you need help for AO Map (to get a better look, you can PM me !

Davide Nativo · Jan 28, 2022

Wow they used a really big throttle pedal

Rodger Davies · Jan 28, 2022

Davide Nativo said:
Wow they used a really big throttle pedal

Everyone knows that's how you make a car go faster! Well, that and painting stripes on it, of course, but stripe-painting tech didn't reach France until the 70s.

CaptainLykaios · Jan 28, 2022

NightEye87 said:
Nice! Looking good

Try to smooth out the front wheel arch, and fix the polygonflow on the bonnet.

Thank you and yeah definitely will try and fix any Polygon flows before.

TabsGaming42 said:
Hello ! If you need help for AO Map (to get a better look, you can PM me !

Thank you for your offer once I get to it I might take you up on that

chrisracer · Feb 8, 2022

We need MATRAS! Very nice. Looking forward to this. Keep up the great work!

MackXit · Feb 9, 2022

I attended the '69 race and am working on a '69 championship season. This car would be an essential addition.

bongady · Feb 21, 2022

Wow, really looking forward to this to add to my Le Mans grid

CaptainLykaios · Feb 28, 2022

Update on the Matra it has been a while but unfortunately my University has kept me really busy with work and been having to divert my time to get it finished as soon as possible so I can get back to doing these projects and Special Stage Route 5, plus work experience hunting and general rest time I need as well.

Anyway here is the Matra now setup to be driveable within Assetto Corsa. It still needs few things ironing out, and few texture work as well as getting the shaders in AC to look just right and fit for the model

CaptainLykaios · Mar 5, 2022

Project is slowly moving along, I have managed to get quite a few major milestones to advance this project towards the end.
I've set up the cameras so they're in correct places, the driver has correct place in the seat and on the steering wheel and best part is the steering wheel turns with the character, I have gone and modified the original animation file to better fir the steering wheel and the character together and got best result for gear shifting as I can at this current moment.

Also lets show the Longtail version of the car that will also be done

And some Shots next to the Ferrari 330 P4 to compare a car on equal graphics

chrisracer · Mar 12, 2022

Looking great. Will you possibly be doing the 1972 car. We have the Ferrari 312SP and the Alfa T33. It would be the perfect addition. Looking forward to this one.

CaptainLykaios · Mar 18, 2022

chrisracer said:
Looking great. Will you possibly be doing the 1972 car. We have the Ferrari 312SP and the Alfa T33. It would be the perfect addition. Looking forward to this one.

Thank you kindly for the response and as far as the 1972 version I have not yet had any plans for other year models as of yet.

CaptainLykaios · Mar 18, 2022

Few small details are now being worked on to try and make the car as authentic to the original Matra as possible.
- Rivets to the Headlight Glass have been added
- Rear Engine deck has been lowered and smoothed to match the shape of the original car
- Cockpit has been bulged out a bit more and rivets have been redone and given a normal map
- Detail has been given to area under the cockpit with extra switches and wires
- Rear deck where it meets with Engine Deck has been smoothed at the rear to more closely resemble the real article
- Intakes at the back of the Longtail version have been added
- Adjusted the side intake topology to work better with AC's lighting
- Size of the Seat, Steering Wheel and Driver has been adjusted.
- Front intake shape has also been adjusted and more rounded on sides and elevated at the top

Rodger Davies · Mar 18, 2022

One of the best sounding cars ever too!

10 minutes of V12 pleasure for anyone interested:

https://soundcloud.com/tricolor47%2Fsets%2Fmatra-v12-engines

banenab · Mar 20, 2022

Can't wait for the release of the car!

Kenny 134 · Mar 20, 2022

My favourite Le Mans Car. Can’t wait.

Racer63 · Apr 5, 2022

Hi, same here, can't wait.

The MS 650/660 is one of two cars left to complete the grid for my first race of the 1971 WSC season.

Many thanks for your work. Really appreciated.