Picture Post & Commentary

[Gunnie]

Fredskin, great job with the car!

 

I found some bugs in the car, for that reason I'll release later, maybe not today

 

About the secondary color, yes, I think the original Sabre turbo of GTA IV has got the secundary color too, but it's hard to do, must do more polys and faces and select these new polys under the carbody and then, put in the material the secundary color for this selection.

 

Well, I'll try too with my version

 

Greetings!

[Fredskin]

Ok, Gunnie for the second color, if you arrived to do this , can you explain me on msn (you will find my adress on teh profil i think), your is good well too...

 

Thx Jason for comment, yes i will smooth the headlight a bit, a for the rear bumper i have just increase the height too looks more "lower" as Puma said, but just a bit, because i don't want to have a low rider one ! lol !

I've add an other exhaust too...

 

Well, i'm playing with texture right now, maybe some update curent night or tomorow morning, i will see !

 

Keep your work guys !

[jos116]

Pics of my version of the 205, doin it this time without meshsmooth (or any other smoothing modifiers like NURMS or TurboSm). So, its purely done with hand.

 

 

Smoothing groups+wire

 

I like your roflcopter, Burner .

 

-Jos

[Gunnie]

I like your elemental Sabre JP, looks very VC, and I love it

 

And now, Sabre turbo IV v1

 

For download later, soon!

 

@ Fredskin: I know how to do a secondary color but isn't easy in this car.

 

Greetings!

 

Edit: OMG Jos! great, I want to see it finished soon

Edited April 10, 2008 by Gunnie

[Sylvania]

Gunnie that's pretty cool.

 

I'm not usually a fan of any modified sa cars but that ones alright

[Fredskin]

Well i've some trouble with texturing, and my models was f*cked (mesh), so the good point is i've made a backup of my files yesterday, so i just loose some improuvement i've done today...

I need more time, but i've got it, because GTA4 is going out in 18 days right now !

[Claude GTA3]

Well i've some trouble with texturing, and my models was f*cked (mesh), so the good point is i've made a backup of my files yesterday, so i just loose some improuvement i've done today...

I need more time, but i've got it, because GTA4 is going out in 18 days right now !

Could you also make the wheels?

[Fredskin]

Sure i can, here the last pics i took before texturing and having trouble :

 

 

Damaged parts, wheels, interior and bumper done.

[jp245]

I like your elemental Sabre JP, looks very VC, and I love it

 

thanks i like the IV sabre your doing too just some constructive criticism texture the bumper with the sa metal or make your own texture cuz just grey dosent look so hot XD

[JostVice]

looks awesome gunnie, but texture it SA style (teh bumper) and i think also it needs a bit touching on the rear...

 

Anyone know any reference pic for a underbody? I really dont know how to come with this. I'm using some textures i found on various games, maybe those can help me out.

[Gunnie]

Thanks all for the comment!

 

@ Fredskin: Great job with the wheels! You're really amazing!

 

@ jp245: thanks a lot! in GTA IV, the front bumper it's grey only, but in the paintjob you can put any texture you want in the bumper, the original texture of sabre it's valid without problem

 

@ Jost_Vice: Yeah, I didn't edit anything in the rear, and maybe needs a bit update...

 

Some other works I've made this month:

 

 

 

Called landtwo how codename. It's an added car in my San Andreas. I'm making a mod where I'll add all cars from anothers Grand Theft Auto 3D (like GTA III, Vice city, Liberty city stories & Vice city stories). This is the original Landstalker from xBox of GTA III, with SA style & stuffs.

 

Features:

 

 

• Customizable in TransFender with:

      - Primary & secundary color.

      - Bumper lights.

      - Exhaus.

      - All wheels.

      - Stereo.

      - Nitro

      - Hydraulic.

• SA style light.

• SA plates.

• New carcols.

• New handling.

 

 

 

It's the FBI Rancher civilian version with another front bumper, some added dummys for tune and a bit update in the handling. It's remplace the Rancher Lure (rnchlure.dff & rnchlure.txd). Some features:

 

 

• Customizable in TransFender with:

      - Primary & secundary color.

      - Hoods

      - Vents

      - Bumper lights

      - Spoilers

      - All wheels

      - Exhaus

      - Stereo.

      - Nitro

      - Hydraulic.

• New carcols.

• New handling.

 

And I'll search for anothers mods made by me

 

Greetings!

Edited April 11, 2008 by Gunnie

[SLAYERMAGGOT]

Gunnie your Car Projects are very cool!

 

When do you release your GTA IV Sabre, because its so beautiful

[Timpo]

dude you gotta release that landstalker right now I dig it.

 

 

It's the FBI Rancher civilian version with another front bumper, some added dummys for tune and a bit update in the handling. It's remplace the Rancher Lure (rnchlure.dff & rnchlure.txd).

 

that's exactly what I have done with the FBI Rancher in my game too you also need to add it in the cargrp.dat for it to appear on the road.

[FullMetal]

@ Gunnie: You have improved ALOT. Really, that Sabre Turbo is so impressive! Can't wait for the download!

 

Are you planning on doing more vehicles? Maybe do some (proper) converts .

[MR.V8]

That Sabre Turbo looks great! I've also been planning to do something with the Sabre...

But anyway, i dug out my Impala and umm...well...it ended up being a Caprice

 

 

And btw, and its not done, its missing some parts...

[Puma06111991]

Nice work all, but please: don't use those graphics mods anymore. It gives a wrong picture of the mod and I don't think that's fair: people download on what they see on the pictures, and when they see that ingame the car doesn't look like on the picture, they feel kinda screwed...

[3niX]

Well...

I come with a batch of renders... The 205 now sits (unfortunately) at 7000+ polys. The polycount is so high mostly due to the wheels which are nearly 1000 a piece. Aaand mostly due to the fact that Im a beginner in this...

 

Hmm... I like what you guys are doing with the Sabres... nice.

 

@jos - Its OK... not perfect (though neither is mine ) but at least you got the basic shapes correctly.

 

@Burner - I feel your pain... its hard to let go of something youre used to... I couldnt switch from 3Ds Max even if my life depended on it (even though I barely model).

[Gunnie]

 

Nice work all, but please: don't use those graphics mods anymore. It gives a wrong picture of the mod and I don't think that's fair: people download on what they see on the pictures, and when they see that ingame the car doesn't look like on the picture, they feel kinda screwed...

Yeah, that's right...

 

Guys, in my two lastest cars (Landstalker 2001 & Rancher XL) the game has got ENB Series, a grapich update of BorisVorontsov (you can found that in Miscellaneus).

 

I'm making now the Sabre & Landstalker 1998 (from LCS ) soon some screenshots.

 

Greetings!

[Claude GTA3]

Gunnie, would you care to do GTA 3 Xbox Infernus, Cheetah, Hardtop Stinger and Banshee

[Burner]

I love it when I find old stuff on old backup disks. I got bored, so I went through a few of my old backup CDs and I got the idea to look at the autosave files in the diferent zmodeler versions folders. Didn't find much exiting, then looked in my other car program folders, and found the mostly completed model for this in the FCE finish folder(as an NFS:HS .fce file, I used to use fce finish to do my normals):

 

 

The 1971 Burner Tumbler concept. Last time I had worked on was 11-12-02, for Midtown Madness 1. I kept searching through other folders and found most of the original textures (body and logos) in another car's folder. The rest had to be remade, which wasn't much, and the model itself had the mapping already done for the most part.

 

The textures are based off some Stecki created for a car he made for Quake Rally(racing game made from Quake 3). The interior is the 67 Pontiac GT0's from EA's Motor City Online. The wheels and foglights are new, the sidepipes were swiped from my 63 Corvette, and I removed the old sunglass sporting NFS:HS driver.

 

Polycount is 2352 for the model. Only an MM1 freindly 1552 without the new foglights. 1110 for each wheel.

 

Here's a sign of the times. Found this tex I was working on in 12-10-01:

 

 

I remember seeing other people do the stretched thing at the front and back at the time and I was giving it a go. You won't find any textures like this being created nowadays lol.

 

I also found these pictures in my 70 Chevelle folder. Have no clue why they were in there, but here they are. These were taken 12-16-02

 

 

Antialiasing makes a huge diference now, eh? This was 1 computer and 2-3 graphics cards ago, so I didn't have that option. I think this was Voodoo3 graphics. You youngins prolly don't even recognize that name. This was every car I had completed up till that point(only 21 cars?!).

 

It's funny how disorganized my comp used to be that makes discoveries like this possible years later

 

 

 

 

 

[Claude GTA3]

Oh, and Fredskin, IV's Sabre Turbo has MUCH bigger exhaust pipes?

[Tchuck]

Fixed it! Lighting is better on the headlights and foglights, and there's a proper musclecar wheel.

Click on it for 1600x1200 version.

[/tease]

[JasonThummel]

I like that Sabre gunnie, you just need to map chrome to that bumper and it looks kind of strange around the back wheel well.

 

I found this "Thing" I made over 4 years ago. It was supposed to be a Stallion but I riced it out.

That thing is just god awful.

Edited April 11, 2008 by JasonThummel

[Claude GTA3]

I found this "Thing" I made over 4 years ago. It was supposed to be a Stallion but I riced it out.

http://kingjason.freeservers.com/images/riceforlife.jpg

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[MR.V8]

Well heres my version of the Sabre, basically just a Sabre Convertible.

 

And with the roof on...

[Burner]

 

Heres my version of the sabre

 

 

Jsaon: Lol, that's one of those "it's so awful, it's cool" cars.

[Mark]

I'm incredibly envious of your texture library Burner. Seems everything you touch turns to gold!

[SLAYERMAGGOT]

Wow so much hot cars, i'm gonna crazy.

But i want really the GTA IV Sabre.

[lowridincrew]

Burner: OMFG AND OMFG

 

1st OMFG: The Cutty Is In Tha Buildin'! still waitin' for the Supreme tho.

2nd OMFG: 1963 Impala in your sig! How could i tell? Cause i love impalas

[javi13]

Fixed it! Lighting is better on the headlights and foglights, and there's a proper musclecar wheel.

Click on it for 1600x1200 version.

[/tease]

I havn't seen that before, is it going in game, or is it a polymonster?