The "What Are You Working On?" Thread

[stingray_SIX_TWO]

A baby is born!
All is done but lods.
I dunno if physics is so realistic, some data i found was good, suspensions are the main problem.
For sure it run very nice and really fun to drive. My mini challenge's man is very happy with the result.
James Gornall, last mini uk challenge's champion, was so kind to give me all the setup possibilites for car and by rules. So excited to see it running in a league
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Is that wheel a MOMO F1 V35/c by any chance? I ripped it out of an E30 I bought a few years back, it was way too small for daily driver duties but a beautiful racing steering wheel none the less. Had the Benetton Racing horn button in the center too .

 

[stingray_SIX_TWO]

Thought I should make a skin that matched my driving skills, scrappy at best. MX5 Cup

Your weathering tex/materials skills are very impressive. That said, if you took out a bit of the depth on most of your corrosion/scratch areas it would more closely align with the thin sheet metal cars use in real life. Your surface looks more like iron or steel and you've nailed that look but that is not the body panel material which in case of the rear bumper is actually plastic.

 

[00Hunter00]

Your weathering tex/materials skills are very impressive. That said, if you took out a bit of the depth on most of your corrosion/scratch areas it would more closely align with the thin sheet metal cars use in real life. Your surface looks more like iron or steel and you've nailed that look but that is not the body panel material which in case of the rear bumper is actually plastic.

Thanks very much, you have a good eye for detail. I did keep working on the texture before release and got it a bit closer to where I wanted it, although I did fail to notice the back bumper should really be plastic.
Also as ive no way of adding to or altering the normal/height map for the car "in game" then with the final skin I faked the corrosion depth with a simple white line highlight and inner drop shadow just painted on. Also helped to tone down that bumpy iron style effect and looked a bit more like car paint. Specular/reflections was another head melt but close enough for me.

Final skin here: Scrapyard Mazda MX5 CUP Skin

 

[KittX]

btw a "cheap" trick is you can make a bump/normal map and then use it's green channel for example (just invert it if it's standard DirectX tangent normal map) and apply it to the main texture with Linear Light blending mode and some semi-transparency.

 

[Stereo]

Chipping away at my medium-term goal of all painted exterior bodywork. So more seams beveled out, and a roof wing.

Still needs door handles and a hood scoop but that's about it.

 

[jonelsorel]

I'm on the home stretch now, with Fonteny. Just adding all the non-grass vegetation to sections 50-100 (so, ferns, flowers, cow parsley, dandelions, bracken). I'm still on course for a pre-Christmas release too, all being well

Unashamedly raising the bar once again and I thank you for it. I think I know where most of my virtual km will be driven at next year.

 

[chili pepper]

Unashamedly raising the bar once again and I thank you for it. I think I know where most of my virtual km will be driven at next year.

I don't claim to know you or anything of your virtual driving abilities, but it might just take you that long to do a clean lap of the place much less learn where you're going. I still find myself scattering my digital guts across the lovely French countryside from time to time...

 

[jonelsorel]

I know! The scenery is THAT well done!

 

[Ben O'Bro]

it's this time of the year again
and i've had bad ideas again...

 

[Stephen O'Sullivan]

@Ben O'Bro It looks a little chilly to drive. I hope there's a heater.

 

[AlleyViper]

Finally a home for Arch's 240Z physics?

 

[CobraCat]

it's this time of the year again
and i've had bad ideas again...

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Devil Z !

 

[Leonardo Ratafiá]

it's this time of the year again
and i've had bad ideas again...

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it seems we will have a new great combo from the team (?) @Ben O'Bro + @kuu(whatever comes next)

 

[Ben O'Bro]

i wanted to post something so i can't really back off from it now...
cause the start of a model from scratch is probably the more painful -this and each and every step afterwards till 1.0

 

[Kyuubeey]

I guess I can take another look at this thing. Geo from some nice measurements.

 

[Stereo]

Whenever I think maybe I'm overdoing it on the details (edge of the glass separate material) I remind myself that it's instead of having to do any texture work.

Weird framing primarily cause it has no right door yet so both doors spin around the left door's axis.

 

[Ben O'Bro]

who knew 1.0 was attainable some day : https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/porsche-911-singer.29318/

now we need LAC 1.2 ...

 

[Ben Dovah]

I'm putting waaay too much time into a joke skin.

 

[AccAkut]

I'm putting waaay too much time into a joke skin.

Uhh, tag me when you release that

 

[Ben Dovah]

Uhh, tag me when you release that

Will do. This one might take a while though. It's surprisingly difficult to get it looking right.