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  Cooya! - 8 years ago

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  Wow... I really like what You did to the basecar. Your attention to detail and realism, especially the rims, normals and odl-parts really makes it shine.
  
  But... there are still some little things that bother me somehow:
  
  1) It´s not centered correctly so the wheels are sunken in the ground in the players car menu... Just a little click in FCE-centerer and I repaired it for myself... so no big deal here...
  
  2) The windows turn solid black with cracks instead of transparent with cracks after crashing the car. I think It´s possible to fix with detaching the glass parts from the :HB-part and attaching them again after that... but I´m not sure anymore as my active NFS-modding time is sooo long ago...
  
  3) I am not too happy with the new super-wide colortrim around the car... for me it was besser in V1... and less blurry ;) ...but this is a minor issue, too
  
  ...But: What REALLY bothers me is your scaling. It´s fantastic that you mind about scaling and making your cars fit together what is often a real issue... but I have really no idea where you got your scaling-factor from as it seems to fit absolutely nothing in NFS4... not the tracks (okay... thats unfair as the track textures are really huge sometimes) , not the default cars, not the custom cars... I know its hard to find a suitable sollution that satisfies everyone but compared to every single car I have in my "contemporary random 49-car-roster from many different authors" it looks like some kind of a childrens electric toy car...
  I don´t want to sound rude and I am really not in the position to judge as this is a thing of personal preference but for my personal taste you should re-think your scaling factor ;)

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  Zpectre - 8 years ago

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  When it comes to scale the "correct" one was always from JP RACING, but no one followed that standard so the cars are scaled closer to their EA equivalents.
  
  I need to reinstall HS with the Modern Patch to test your cars. I'm glad you're working on improving these classic gems. I was doing the same with my own cars but stupid me decided to play with fire and add an unformatted HDD to my gaming machine... Result was an HDD conflict and my whole games HDD was erased with all the progress I had on the cars, all the tools, HS installs, etc. So I lost motivation. Maybe I go back to them one day.

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  FranknFurter - 8 years ago

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  thx Cooya for your honest attention and a having closer look at it .. :)
  
  to 1: it is on purpose that I set cars a dash or two lower on mini grid to have an in-game 'flexed tires' impression, it's not that I wouldn't know how to properly center a car :D
  Real cars' tires (I assume that you own a car?) except for those super high pressure nitrogen gas filled less-than-low profile racing tires also 'sink' in a little by the weigth compression unless the car is lifted by a hydraulic ramp ;)
  
  Unless you want to run on unrealistic solid rubber toy car tires? xD
  
  to 2: I cannot tell about that since I do not use in-game damage nor do I do damage models have to test out that perhaps .. :o
  Could be for reason that the windows are being set 'non-transparent' and made clear by alpha channel method for tinted windows impression and the sunstripe .. more or less a matter of 'what you will and what you get' maybe :o
  
  to 3: that's actually a matter of 'one pixel's width' we already know that -LOL
  
  to 4: that's an issue to be better discussed in a new editing thread about 'car scales' or of that kind since would take too far afield here .. :D
  
  only thing I can tell about is that it was by the same token always also annoying me to sometimes have child drivers sitting in too large cars making long arms for they can at least reach the steering wheel .. :p
  test it , import a car and switch to 'real meters' in ZModeler and compare the wheelbases among your cars to real values :o
  
  btw it's as well just a click in CarCAD to upscale it to a whatever desired size again ;) I recommend the Standard 106% NFS4 oversize btw ..
  
  The car to come is outta schedule kinda being a real classic beast tho .. and it is NOT scaled in any way .. that better? Not telling here is real sudden surprise .. you may as well look up skirt that one literally xD

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  FranknFurter - 8 years ago

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  That's bad sad too :( .. same happened to me years ago with my HP2 installation when my 5 year old son uninstalled the game instead of starting it .. work of years was lost within just a mouse click .. never w/o backup in my life again .. :o
  
  Do you have a list of what cars and/or tracks you miss the most? Maybe we can help the 'Dark Palatine' to brighten up again? :)
  
  JP and NUH cars were the only ones I know were being correctly scaled agreed :D
  Of NUH I know were using professional CAD software that's why ..
  If you look for example at the Polizei T4 it isn't touched in size in any way ..

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  WiLL - 8 years ago

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  Yeah, um, it be great to see, Zpectre make a come back Tour! I liked his Cars much back then... :) Frank I have the, T4 Van? Pursuit, installed, ever since I seen that, I knew I had to Have it! :)) that Van is Real Sharp Greatly made I think. Nice
  But, u know me I had to change the Siren lights ;)

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  FranknFurter - 8 years ago

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  Uhhh not that again bro plz. I won't rework for you that T4 this time like I did the PSL5 from Nils jokin' pal .. LOL
  
  Perhaps a vector would also look awesome on a German police car eh? xD
  
  That's why I love LED lightbars on newer cars .. simply change the dummys' colors - that's it ::) -LOL

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  Zpectre - 8 years ago

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  FranknFurter, all of my own cars are available at this site. :D What I lost were the updated versions I was making.
  
  The collection of addon cars I have are backed up in the cloud so I can recreate the installs relatively easily.

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  FranknFurter - 8 years ago

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  So it's more the working/game and testing environment you have lost then? That's bad too but more than that it's annoying redoing that to status quo with all applications, file associations and and .. hope you'll find the time and motivation too again bro .. :)
  
  .. and it couldn't be restored by for example 'GetDataBack' HDD rescue programs? That's bad .. :(
  
  But if that particular HDD is not yet formatted I can send it to you if you want to? They're not large files, 3MB zipped each for both FAT32 and NTFS version ..
  Should be at least possible to regain all *.z3d files on a deep search maybe?

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  Zpectre - 8 years ago

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  It happened a while ago, no turning back now.

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