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Stifen_DYAugust 22, 2023

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Italdesign Scighera

Italdesign Scighera
Authorrata_536
Added On April 2, 2023
Views 4,115
Downloads 429
Version Hot Pursuit
Brand Italdesign
Favorited 1 times
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File updated on: April 12, 2025

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Description

Higher quality model as EA replacement plus a few minor fixes.




Stats:


512x texture for high quality texture mod on VEG patch


256x texture can be used instead by renaming CARGAR.TGA


2972 total combined polygons for compatibility with unpatched game:


1592 polygons for high quality model (LOD0)

882 polygons for medium quality model (LOD1)

470 polygons for low quality model (LOD2)

12 polygons for tiny model (collision) plus 16 polygons for taillights

New sound engine, sampled from youtube*

Removed a few annoying outlines in dashboard. 

An alternate file is included with the gear indicator working in the best way I could make it within the current limitations.

Major revision to performance, it is now AWD as it should, while keeping some reliability on cornering

Completely revamped the colour list, now featuring real Alfa Romeo shades (credits to NFS1McLaren and Schnoobler)

Edited showcase to display the red Alfa Romeo logo on the spoiler (MASSIVE credits to Schnoobler), and have a new loading slide in PSX style

Reworked model for the Extended Lights patch (don't worry it has Xenon headlights). Now the spoiler brake lights only turn on during brake :D

Full source is included: model as .z3d file with materials and dummy settings, texture as .TGA and .PDN files with layers for ease of work.

Notes:

So, this is it. All PC cars are completely revamped. It has been a trip. Also has been a hell, especially when a car has different variations acording to its lifetime, like this one. The older, original model had a much stepper and shallow front end, which happened to be the most pictures on the internet that I could find for reference. Also it had two set of rims, which are also present in the game, the alt set even making it into the loading slide. It triggered me real bad so that's why I replaced the image altogether. Plus, it's a bad angle if you ask me.

Then there is another problem: the dashboard. Inside the ZIP there is a file called FAILDASH.QFS. BUT, there is a really nasty bug on the game's engine that prevents the tiles to show on their correct place, making all of them stack in the same place. That's valid for the 355, but not for this car. If the bug is fixed 200 years from now, the new dashboard can be imported.

The alternate file has a semi-working gear selector, except for the R which could not made fit into a 64x64 canvas. Anyways the quality gets reduced to pretty much shit at this size so yeah, that's why it's set as alternate file. If the bug is fixed 100 years from now, this dash can be used.

Sound, well that's the only part of this that went actually smooth. Surprisingly got a perfect sample at the first try from an Alfa GTV which also features the 3 litre Busso engine. Then I added the turbo whistle cos the Scighera has two of them and I want them to be noticed. I couldn't find turbo whistle samples online so I whistled myself. Voice Acting as a car is a thing now.

Model wise, the original EA model is actually VERY good in terms of general proportions, the biggest offenders being the standard HUGE wheels that all cars have, and it is a little too high clearance because of that. The other handicap to this car is the game engine itself one more time, which is in the limbo between NFS2 and NFS4 where it has no moving spoiler capabilities. In any of the two other games, the feature could be used. In real life, the big rear spoiler houses a small(ish) flap that acts as air brake.

Changelog

  • Version 1.1 uploaded April 12, 2025

    rata_536 uploaded a new version. The new file is 4.11 MB.

    Model updated for Extended Lights Patch
    Did some stuff for dashboard
  • Initial version uploaded April 2, 2023

    rata_536 uploaded initial version. The original file is 0 B.

Visitor Comments

  • noise - 2 years ago
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    rata_5362 years ago
    Remko2 years ago
    EvoX2 years ago
    Stifen_DY2 years ago
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    Just looked at all the cars you uploaded for nfs3, It puts a smile on my face. Haven't played nfs3 for ages but going through the screenshots I felt like reinstalling it again.

    Any future plans?, or do you need a rest;)

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    • rata_536 - 2 years ago
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      Stifen_DY2 years ago
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      Current plan is the Nazca C2 coupe and all police patrols, then some extra cars and a full traffic pack for Stage 2.
      Reply
  • marast78 - 2 years ago
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    I tried before to do the Scighera gear indicator working. It will work technically fine, the only problem here is that it will look like crap because of the overcompression of the small indicator TGAs.

    It works for simpler and bigger images, like in the 355.

    I guess this is why EA didn't do it for the car either, even though the indicator itself is so much in the face.


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    • rata_536 - 2 years ago
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      Yeah the additional bitmaps are limited in size so the game will start compressing them, so the plan was to keep canvases small (and square at powers of 2).
      Reply
  • LEGIONART - 2 years ago
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    we seriously need a mw and carbon version of this car... one of the most iconic cars in the Hot Pursuit Games
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  • Kai-The-Performer - 2 years ago
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    With this car, we can say that NFS 3: Hot Pursuit Remastered is complete.

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    • Schnoobler - 2 years ago
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      NFSF1McLaren2 years ago
      Kai-The-Performer2 years ago
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      there is still much more to come ;)
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    • rata_536 - 2 years ago
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      NFSF1McLaren2 years ago
      Kai-The-Performer2 years ago
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      Yeah Stage 1 is complete, but as schnoobler said you'll want to wait for what's coming next. And by wait I mean wait cos God knows when.
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    • Kai-The-Performer - 2 years ago
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      You take care of beautifying the game, and I'll take care of adding more modern cars. But in the same way, in which you have done with the original cars

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    • rata_536 - 2 years ago
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      Kai-The-Performer2 years ago
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      Well if that's the case that you want to follow the style of my cars I can provide the basic assets I use like the wheels, exhaust and the basic test texture, ready to adapt and develop from there.
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    • Kai-The-Performer - 2 years ago
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      it´s here, but it has many polygon errors, and the front is no longer the same as seen in the photos, since it has already been corrected
      https://www.nfsaddons.com/showroom/nfshp/7919/kai-the-performer-lamborghini-murcielago-sv.html

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  • EvoX - 2 years ago
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    Haha it shines like an Xmas tree from behind
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  • maximilianominos - 2 years ago
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    pete95162 years ago
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    ¡You are doing an amazing work with all your nfs3 cars! Is there a chance that you guys start converting your cars for nfs4?
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    • rata_536 - 2 years ago
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      maximilianominos2 years ago
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      There is a plan somewhere down the line but I have no clue on the time for that as I won't be working on that myself. 
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