'69 Charger by Krystoff

[FranknFurter]

No those are in-grille marker lights on the Gran Torinos ... that'll I have to do for the '75/'76 Furys as well as different tailllights headlights and stuff .. and if I manage to still I'll try to do also a Sheriff Rosco car on that base then

Another Charger screenshot .. Banana 'Papa' Joe watching over his reign ..

Add: You can tell by the different roof colour I made some minor changes in mapping ...

so here's the car now for testing, it misses some sound files so you just copy them from EA Camaro, the full upload will then have Dixie horn ... or if you manage to you can also export the Dixie horn sound from Ocareng.bnk to .wav file and replace it in imported Careng.bnk from Camaro then ..

Have fun!

[WiLL]

Hi Frank looks fun... an your pic seemed Dark next page back,.so was tuff to see it was the Toreno car. on the lights there. Yea,I want try import the horn to the other motor, sound so wish me luck on that C'ya 

[FranknFurter]

Is sent man .. becalmed is sent ... LOL

[Cooya!]

Very nice!
Just the new 2d rims just don´t work... the are too lowpoly to fit the rest of this very detailed car and completely stand out. The original wheels on Krystoffs conversion are beautiful and not too highpoly aswell... so for me this is a heavy downgrade that literally destroys every upgrade you did to this car

[FranknFurter]

Thx Cooya .. you maybe be right concerning that since I'm a fan of nice looking wheels too
I did the base car in pre-VEG patch times as well so every single poly counted ... had a look at the original wheels from Toca again they're almost double the polycount of the textured ones, that would raise the car's polyload alot

I also looked at the wheels from Reggaeton's Carbon Charger again, they have a much lesser polyload almost like the textured ones as an alternative, only thing is they look kind of distorted in length as you can also notice by ZModeler's attributes window of it .. must have happened during conversion, but if you insist on that I can tell Remko to again withhold the upload to exchange the wheels still?

That's then another day of correcting the Carbon's wheels' mesh and texture rework to also a brighter look but if it is worth the wait for you guys?


Add: Not too bad that thought folks ... compare last two pics, textured GT wheels with inner part (just the spokes textured area) hidden ... I like those wheels since they make a nicer in-game turning impression because of an odd-numbered edges count (15) instead of being 'symmetrical', that's why ...

Next pic is vice-versa the outer 'distorted' part of the Carbon's wheels hidden so just the spokes part is visible, there's not much of polycount left so perhaps an alternative to the textured inner spokes area of the textured ones if I combine both?

.. thx for that objection Cooya! and ... I'll see what I can do Sirs ..

[FranknFurter]

2nd Add: Just a 'quick'n dirty' insertion of the Carbon's wheels' spokes into the Charger's textured GT wheels ... didn't think it would work out that well ... just the textures have to be adapted to each other a little but I like the outcome too so far and is only 50 polies more then before per axle(!) makes 100 polies more for the whole car that's not too much

And those are really getting close ..




.. plz. see attachment showing Carbon spokes part area inserted to textured GT wheels ....

[FranknFurter]

Here's final outcome of merging process so far ...

Polycount increased to 4565 polies that's little more than 60 polies to previous state, could delete some polies from the steering wheel as well as some of the body's rear lower part so carmesh .fce load is still kept below 800kB ..

Final updated Charger in car menu (last pic) ... testcar w/o sound files is attached to next posting

[FranknFurter]

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Cooya wrote:

''so for me this is a heavy downgrade that literally destroys every upgrade you did to this car''

You didn't like the wheels so much, that's all isn't it?

I remember you had some nfs4 projects like a BMW concept, any progress?

@FranknFurter: I look forward to the Charger.The menu pic is great, including the vidwall.

[FranknFurter]

thx much to you noise, but is all ok with me sometimes you need 'em kickin' ass to trim things to perfection we all know ...

btw .. those original Toca racing wheels are of more recent date actually .. they're from nowadays' Mustang GT so wouldn't match old Charger anyway





I like the new trim with better wheels, here's another detail I added ... textured tire walls with that typical white lettering on them and also new mapped tires profile .. is even much better than before with that plain look isn't it .. how do you like it folks?

So here's again for testing on next post d/l ...

Pity still that NFS doesn't show reflections on wheels and other parts ingame .. where's 'em hardcode hex tinkerers eh?

[FranknFurter]

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[Cooya!]

"sometimes you need 'em kickin' ass to trim things to perfection we all know ... "
Hehe... I am sorry. It was not my intention to kick ass... But sometimes I am just a little too honest to be polite
But since my critics ended up in this absolutely astonishing set of wheels I don´t feel too bad about this
Thanks for not being thin-skinned Frank! It looks fabulous now!

[WiLL]

Yes the Charger does..! Thanks Cooya, for saying that.. at least  I haven't heard them, words in a long time.. thin skin. So I know Frank. Is a Great guy to me an he puts much work into.. his Rides! Like I try to an do on the Tracks C'ya.

[FranknFurter]

thx guyz .. I'm an too old ass to be thin skinned though I hope not to become a grumpy old fart then just nagging all day -LOL

plz. ignore all next since is all O/T ..

The 'Ripe Stuff' - from Space Cowboys movie - love it .. LOL *cough* *gasp*



Seems there's not a close enough english match on that so here's German ...



Have found me a nice license plate already for then later ...



If you watched me talking to myself then here's my excuse ...



Worst case scenario:

https://www.youtube.com/v/B0jMPI_pUec

For the younger ones among us who don't know .. he also made that famous one back from his 1971 album:

https://www.youtube.com/v/bNCT6pA5I9A

No-one ever played better Rock flute .. inspired many later to come ... listen from on 50:30 'Wish upon a star' .. hope your cheap PC speakers will manage that got some custom build ones

https://www.youtube.com/v/pPQxLRv8owM

Tarja Turunen was best Lady singer pity she quit on Nightwish lately ..
Being a real educated opera vocalist her voice is giving me showers down my spine each time ..
Track five 'Two For Tragedy' is simply amazing ... no more words .. Scandinavian gravity is here ..



Sin seekeress ...

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[dandresden]

Lmao about picture
Hmmm...How about Duffy Duck to be license plate ?