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Ok .. thanks to my outrageous genius (cough, cough .. =D) I found a way now to manage the different lightbar setups (respecting the two different transparency levels for the alley lights cutouts surrounded by less transparent coverage) using only one mesh (by altering the outer one or two dummies to orange if desired) but with just different texture files ..

The standard setup (if you agree so far ... ::)) will be the plain red/blue with white alley lights since this is the most common setup concerning the 1976 Fury, alternative textures will be:

1) one single orange flasher on driver side w/o alley lights ('Cali Setup', will add mesh for that)

2) two orange flashers w/o alley lights (considered as the common '77/78 setup)

3) two orange flashers with additional alley lights for 'the lighting freaks ..' =D

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I agree with Dark One, I looked through some videos again and noticed the single driver sided orange rear flasher on most of the cars, so that's what I would have suggested, too :D

Nevertheless I added round alley lights (which are only seen on the plain red/blue lightbars so far) to the lightbar edges (with interior spots of course), for those who want to choose I will provide different textures, two outer orange sectors, one with only on driver side and w/o it but white alley lights, that ok ...?

You might want to decide yourself if you want to alter the two outer siren dummies to orange ones, this can even be done in NFSWizard by just changing one letter each ..

.. pics show the driver sided single orange sector and the new alley lights (tested it also with an interior ODL for that but does it make sense to you?

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thx guys, did the best I could although I must admit that I've never seen the original TV show so I cannot really tell which of the many cars and backup vehicles used might be 'the one and only' possible version, let alone of the many different cruisers they used anyways during the years .. :-[

http://hazzardnet.com/forums/topic/5006-the-patrol-cars-in-pictures/

The Hazzard boys' Gen'l Lee and Rosco's cruiser are seemingly the most copied and replicated TV show/movie cars ever after the Bluesmobile and Bandit's '77 Pontiac perhaps =D

It appears to me that the choice of that simple and plain white 'Hazzard County' scheme allowed the use of a great variety of different base cars so only the experts might be able to tell the backups from the 'closeups' or steady cars, on most screenshots I haven't seen any orange flashers or alley lights .. :-\

Btw even if I render the orange flashers again they will be inactive anyway since the car lighting needs 10 dummies (because of the four taillights of the '75 Fury) so only six dummies are left for the lightbar but np for me I will do it if you like it better ^-^

Still enough time to agree on a certain 'unified' scheme or lightbar shape since I haven't uploaded yet =D

48" or 52" lightbar w/ or w/o one or two orange rear flashers, alley lights, chrome/veneer trim or not ... :o

Most 'common' recognition of the Hazzard cruiser I found is this of the '77 Fury variant:



from: http://hazzardnet.com/forums/topic/4733-roscos-patrol-car/

Quite a good source for some graphic arts, pity I haven't found it earlier .. :P

Some other cruisers from different departments of many used in the TV show, see also above link ..



link of another '76 Replica:
http://topclassiccarsforsale.com/plymouth/288006-1976-plymouth-fury-sheriff-rosco-coltrane-dukes-of-hazzard-tribute-police-car.html





The '76 didn't seem to have orange rear flashers as I saw on most pics, only the later '77 ..

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.. should be o.k. like that? 8)

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question folks ... current (and almost final) state of Rosco's Fury ..

I mapped Sheriff Rosco's face (the grimmest usable one I could find so far =D) now to the driver's head, but I'm not quite sure wether it should be provided with or without sunglasses, plz. compare first two pics (admittedly I haven't found any pics of him wearing sunglasses, did he ever wear some?) :o since it is a rather small texture area his face doesn't look very 'defined' .. ::)

Maybe if I enhance his eyebrows yet a bit in the way I already did his teeth it might look better w/o sunglasses ..?
I'm 'not very good' at cosmetics erhm .. so I might have to ask my GF about it but I'm afraid she will probably try to make a 'beauty queen' of him in the end (and yet even tweeze his eyebrows) .. poor guy :-\

I'm aware that the real car didn't have a trunk 'Sheriff' sticker but I added it since most fleet cars have that for recognition, hope it is ok for you .. ??? (.. if you don't like it it is easy to remove since it is a layered object of two polies only ;))

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Editing Projects / '75/76 Fury continued: Sheriff Rosco's car
« on: May 02, 2017, 8:10 AM »
First sketch of Rosco's car based on the new Plymouth, just the door decals done so far .. :police:

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thx @all :) sry. got lost in details again (as usual ::)) but I couldn't resist giving the driver nice 'old style' sunglasses and mapping the steering wheel's middle strut to a higher trim level with 'wooden veneer' imitation like the dashboard has it .. =D

I just uploaded the Fury Racer now, the Calgary City Police cruiser is to follow 'on the foot' ^-^

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.. one last detail added to the Racer Fury, a Plymouth hood emblem like it can be seen on pics ..



Not all contemporary Furys had that let alone Fleet cars but a nice detail of yet another 74 polies :)



.. some more pics of the Calgary Fury, driver has a uniform now ..

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Frank, can you show wires on different angle, more like from centerline instead of side of the car, and grill hidden? I think that there should be no problem with doing correct polies for that part. However, it seems like some original polies around the area will need some work, too. It's always about additional work here and there, eh?  =D

Absolutely correct Rider66, that's what the Calgary cruiser mapping painfully made clear to me, the bonnet needed some more rework .. :) .. I scaled the rear bonnet verts in width and also aligned the frontal V-shaped edges to the headlights' centre lines.

The Racer '75 Fury is already updated with the new bonnet, too btw .. ::)

@Paul: Do you have any info about how the historical CPS uniforms looked like? ??? And no, haven't thought of the Satellite yet but shure is a nice one, too. The grille reminds me of the GTX btw, had that in HP2 ..




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.. all in good time Zpectre, but I'm pretty shure you mean the Coronet? ???





or do you mean the later '77/78 Monaco? Since we already have that:







but they all could use a rework now that I did better bumpers, lights and stuff .. pheeew :P

Another question is what might be your most favoured Sheriff Rosco car since ..
Quote from: Wikipedia (source)
His patrol car (in the first season a 1974 Dodge Monaco or a 1970 Dodge Polara (First 2 episodes), 1974-5 AMC Matador and 1976 Plymouth Fury. In later seasons a 1977 or 1978 Dodge Monaco or Plymouth Fury) which also serves as his daily driver except for a few episodes where he has other cars, such as a 1977 Pontiac Lemans in the 3rd season episode "To Catch a Duke" which he apparently saved his nickels and dimes for, as he claims. This car can routinely be seen parked outside the Police station in stock footage exterior shots for the rest of the series ..

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Editing Projects / Re: 1975/76 Plymouth Fury rework .. started!
« on: Apr 27, 2017, 10:52 AM »
thx Dark One, me too .. :)

The first one will be - since I promised that to my friend Max the ..



'75 Fury:



Nice decent scheme btw .. can't wait to see this on Sergi's Dolphin Valley ^-^



a frontal view of the two-door variant with Twinsonic lightbar but giving a good impression of the paint scheme:



the 'Double Dietz' lightbar is already prepared and ready for service:

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Final correction of the rear bumper's outer edges, they were exceeding the body too much laterally ...

Car_test.zip is attached again .. meshload 548kB, polyload 3186 (most recent and odds-on final state ;))

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Editing Projects / Re: 1975/76 Plymouth Fury rework .. started!
« on: Apr 27, 2017, 12:39 AM »
I have now 'recessed' the taillights into the rear bumper so is now actual part of it (though I detached it again and merged to :OC part for proper ODL lighting) .. :)

last pic: seems the cooling device needs an overhaul .. a probable result of too many excessive test rides .. cough ;) :o

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Ok, managed to close the gaps in the way I described (and left those holes for the light cones .. see 'new_front_panel.png') :)

Also made new exhausts in the way it can be seen on the real rearview pics, closer to the middle and cranked downwards ('new_exhaust_pipes.png')

Since it no longer has an internal Police light (which would disappear because of alpha channel transparency method ;)) I also tinted the windows again more and detached the side windows as :OT part so they can be hidden in menu, very useful for the few smokers that are still left .. =D

see attached pics of current state, I also added the car for testing (car_test.zip) without internal sounds .. fce meshload: 549kB, polyload: 3199

I will see what I can do about the layered taillights still, that's a reasonable objection Paul always had raised, if the bumper normals don't get messed up I will try to 'countersink' them into the rear bumper as a merged part so let's see what will become of it .. ^-^

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thx Dark One, I already do have much fun being just at it, even more than on the '77 ^-^

@Rider: got an idea now .. I will seperate the base plate polies of that grey square behind the lenses and create new polies from the edges' verts to the body so I can fill the gaps around it while still leaving a rectangular gap for the lights =D

Sometimes you don't see the forest for the trees ::)

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