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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.

Since we were talking about the cars made by Dave Katyher (Millenium Design) here:

https://www.nfsaddons.com/showroom/nfshs/10766/pete9516-jaguar-xjr-15.html

I was searching through my archive to find as much cars made by him as possible... unfortunately the Jaguar XJ220 and the Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno are lost but all the rest is here:

https://uploadnow.io/f/LCJq1rg

I am pretty sure that most of the roadmarks flickering is just a Z-buffer problem caused by the markings sitting a little too close to the road polygons. It's just tooooo long ago but I think we fixed that issue by either moving the road or the markings just a tiny bit. NFS4 is quite a diva when it comes to draw distance priority. We have this problem with transparent polygons like trees on tracks and licence plate dummies on cars aswell.

Yes.. Why? We are here and we are reading. But we are just a handful of people left. 
You already told us your plans for this year before and I still can't say that I am unhappy with you choices!  Especially the Isdera Imperator and the Ferrari 512BB are the cars I am looking for but I love every single one. I like that you keep updating your old classics, too.. like the Maserati, the Austin Healey and the 250GTO and I like that you always have a heart for the strange underdogs like the Mega Track aswell. I can't wait to try them all.

PS: If you think about unique cars like the Panther Solo I... You should consider one of my childhoods dreams aswell... the Panther 6 as six wheels are possible in NFS4 via :OLB and :ORB-parts

That looks amazing! 
Tiny details can make such a big difference.. I am impressed.

Japanese cars can be pretty amazing... especially some 70's concept cars like these:



...But I don't want to bring some bad ideas here as I am totally fine with the Ferrari 512BB, Lotus Esprit Turbo, BMW M1 and Detomaso Pantera coming next

And yes... I am an "old car guy" aswell! I just can't find anything amusing in nowadays cars. They all look somehow the same... totally bland. I don't care anymore. My personal rides are 36 and 28 years old now:

Ohh... Nice update on the Oxia. I really like how it's improved. There is just one little thing that bothers me a tiny bit: it's missing visible window frames. The original car has very prominent blackening of the window's edges and therefore your model looks a little bit like it's made of paper:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdWheels/comments/1dcufoz/peugeot_oxia/?tl=de


PS: The Proxima looks fantastic! Thank you again! 
PPS: The first two rows of your picture collection bring tears in my eyes... soooo many wonderful cars to be made for NFS4 

That's a very nice dashview! I love it. And I am very curious about that "grey car", too... looks like a 1970 Buick GS /GSX. Interesting choice for a NFS4 car.