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The Imperator is such a great supercar.. and your rendition is just perfect. I love it. 
Thank you for building not just the 80's but the 90's version aswell. It is such an amazing addon for our 1999 favorite game.

I'm so glad you're making them. They're so gorgeous. Those taillights remind me of my W201 all the time

They are in fact from a Mercedes S-Class W116

I don't think that making the doors openable is a very good idea...
if you use the ":OT" part for the doors, everytime you race on a summertime track against opponents, you will race against 7 opponents driving with their doors open. I don't think that this looks that cool. The same story when using the ":OL" part: 7 opponents will mock you everytime you race at night time.    ...And the ":OL" part vanishes very sudden when cars are still in close distance because it is used like the ":MB" and ":LB" LOD parts and is only shown together when the ":HB" part is loaded.

Of course it is! 

Oh... really?!?     Well... at least there should be. Otherwise things can go terribly wrong as you can see

WOW! This is a masterpiece again. It seems like you are getting better and better with every car you are making for NFS4... And they get more and more detailed. Look at all the logos, the lamps, airvents... amazing. And thank you for adding a side mirror as this was not necessary on an italian car but looks just more complete that way.
I have nothing to criticise here... well... maybe ONE little thing.
There is a little problem with the outer headlights penetrating with their base:

I like the new and very detailed dashboard. great work! A lot better than the original one.
And I am SOOOO looking forward to the Isdera Imperator. Finally a very nice 80s (and 90s) supercar. I am pretty sure that the early one still has Mercedes logos as Eberhard Schultz still had the permission from Mercedes to use their badges as his early CW311 car was from such a high quality. I think Butch is building the version he showed in his collection some pages ago.

@ noise: A CW311 for NFS4?!? I have never seen one and I am pretty sure that Thomas Egelkraut did none... Can it be that you mistook it with the C111 by Felixx Autobahn? If i look on Thomas' homepage via wayback machine it seems that I am right.
https://web.archive.org/web/20001001160751/http://tomsgarage.btwracing.com/cars_nfs4.shtml
Where did you find one? I am curious.

I think it look A LOT better than the original texture... 
and suuuuper faithful to the original. Great work. 

You can improve the quality even further by blurring the alpha channel a bit. I usually just use the standart softener 1 or 2 times in photoshop. If you use the "BMP 7D" code for the texture you can have many shades of grey on the alpha.

Just look for some nice (and free) PNG textures as they already have a transparent background. I always search these sites for good tree textures to start with but normally I modify them further for my personal taste:


https://www.pngwing.com/en/search?q=tree
https://www.vecteezy.com/free-png/tree-texture
https://pngtree.com/so/trees-texture

The stripes in the skymap appear where an alpha texture is not completely white (opaque) or black (transparent) because the textures overlap a little bit and are building this lines that are less transparent. It is almost impossible to get rid of them completely... but you can reduce the effect by painting the outer pixels of the alphamap darker to have them more transparent.

Nice work on the buildings textures. The houses look really great. I am not too happy with the trees though... they look like a comic version of the original ones. too colourful and too unnatural. Did you use an AI image upscaler? better make new textures on your own. They don't have to look completely the same. As long as they stay "somehow" true to the original ones a little difference can make the difference.

Of course it is possible to do. It has been done for NFS4 so I don't see any problem in doing something like that for NFS3 aswell. Unfortunately you can't convert NFS4 tracks to 3 (yet) but maybe you could just give NFS4 a chance:

https://www.nfsaddons.com/downloads/nfshs/tracks/6946/thunder-mountain-3-virtual-road-ai-fix.html

It is a pretty good track...The little "downer" is that it was build in the wrong direction so you have to choose backward direction to drive it correctly.
I am sorry that I will not help with building a NFS3 track as I don't care AT ALL for that game as NFS4 is basically the same game but doing EVERYTHING better.

Ohh.... yessss... She is sooooo beautiful! And I love the little details like the emblems and logos a lot. It just could use some windscreen wipers for rainy weather
...And although this is an italian car made before 1970 that does not have them by default I would love to see some side mirrors. A car always looks somehow strange without them. Maybe some nice chrome plated Talbot Berlin ones... They were very common on sportscars
Can't wait for the new dashview. The old one was already pretty fantastic so I am curious what you can do nowadays.

PS: After seeing the picture with the back of the Aston Martin DBS sticking in: Too bad that you already made clear what cars you are going to build this year because after these two beauty queens we desperately need a Monteverdi Highspeed 375 S designed by Pietro Frua:
https://assets.dyler.com/uploads/posts/390/images/8340/monteverdi-high-speed-375-s.jpg

I was just about to ask if you were still alive...
...And there you are with an almost completed new car again.

And she is such a beauty queen!!!  I love your new Ghibli! 

No... It has not. 

omg yes
They aren't in my archive? Insanely good that you've found them in yours and thanks for uploading

Unfortunately only some of his cars are in your archive as the NFS-factory network that hosted "Millenium Design" already died a loooong time before you started it and therefore you could only collect what was available on other sites.
I thought I preserved all of his cars as they were insanely well made for the time they were build (1999) but unfortunately that were the times when HDD space still mattered and I saw no use in keeping cars that got "obsolete" because someone made a better version of the same car. Stupid me.