Omni

Was there work done on the Omni? well really no, decided the other night to record some video. just for the heck of it. the sounds that the Omni uses comes from a car I released to Racer earlier my Dodge Caravan (pictured below with the Tradesman). The gauges aren't exactly matching one is for the Dodge Caravan model(the black tach on the bottom right hand side of the screen) the other is the Omni speedo (bottom left hand side of the screen).


(talk about a size difference)

Anyways heres the link to the video (subscribe and comment would be nice)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACd19i4rzlI

The Omni....

Has had more work done to it, rebuild the front grill, Now I think it looks much better, the GLH-S also got the same treatement.

Omni and Mini...

My two smallest cars that I'm working on right now, have had some minor work done on them...

The Mini, I had modeled its grill, and now its fitted into its area, purposely is a little small though, as there will be a piece that goes around the edge, probably will end up having it body colored.



The Omni, got badging, up front it got the Pentastar, and Dodge, and in the back it got the Dodge and Omni badges. need to put the 3rd brakelight back still though.

Mini, oh Mini....

Where art Thou Thy Mini....

Ok thats enough Shakespeare for me lol. I have done something to the Mini (Morris? Austin? either or) built up the grill, its a bunch of glorified boxes, that was still a pain to do, mainly the first row was a pain to get everything right. Also tweaked with the windshield frame a bit, still needs a little more tweaking though. Still plenty left to do on the little thing, it seems such a small car, that is such a big undertaking really.

Omni GLH-S, small update

Did just a little bit of work on the GLH-S (Omni) the other day, just forgot to post, haven't really worked on it today, because, 1. I was testing out my old graphics card to see if it had driver issues or hardware, sadly, hardware, and also it seems my back is in quite a lot of pain today, I suspect its from when I replaced the starter in a friend's car, how i did it idk, much like the cut that across 3 out of 4 fingers on my right hand, all in a direct line, cut my fore finger middle finger and pinky, missed the middle finger somehow lol.

Anyways the GLH-S has been fitted with the Pizza wheels (I had modeled and put a basic texture on them earlier) and slightly redid the headlights on the GLH-S to appear more roundish at the edges.

Some Fun

Well I had put a Fairmont Wagon into Racer not too long ago, and quickly learned a bit of CG on it, like doing pearlescent paint jobs on it, then I thought I'd explore a funner side of what I can do, and decided to cut the car right behind the driver's door and make something like the Half Car from Davidsfarm (on youtube), but his is a Pontiac 6000. and this is clearly NOT lol. utlizing a wheel from my Omni, and front wheels from my Aspen. But alas I have created something fun, and to go along with the two redneck rollercoaster cars (that were also from Davidsfarm). Now I need to make a half master lol.


And also I have worked on the GLH-S "summore" and added the necessary body kit so its one step closer to looking like a GLH-S, only problem is I'm missing my Centurion wheels still, might put the pizza wheels on for now just for something other than what is on there right now.

Some Updates

Well haven't really posted here, just been kind of busy around the house recently, sister (and her husband and of course my niece) came up for the weekend, then not too long after waking up saturday I got a call from my friend who was stuck at McD's because his car wouldn't start, so I had to go get it going again (its a Ford so what do you expect? lol). Then I just didn't have this blog on my mind at all, whoops, oh well so heres a smal update on whats going on with the cars
Well first of all, the GLH-S has come back, 2.2l turbo burble and almost all, suspension isn't quite right yet (working on it) and the wheels aren't back on yet (again working on it).

Now I also kind of playing this game (I guess thats what it is) for Racer, called Racecity, and well, I thought of an idea I shouldn't of thought of and made it real lol. Now what is it? Well it started out as a Ford Econoline Cargo van, and now, its just a race van, with a 351W, 5 speed manual transmission, posi rear end, widened track, a whole list of things really. But it is incredibly quick, for a van and not having THAT much power to it. It goes around the Nurburgring at just over 8 mins. I will admit, its not the prettiest thing ever, but funtionally its awesome.

Omni work...

Its been in Racer for a while, some have thought that it needs polys in certain area (where they are I can't see myself). But if my head is on straight, this is the 3rd model I've ever done, well 4th really, my very first one was scrapped early on. But still for what it is I feel its pretty good really. Anyways about the Omni, Suspension has been tested, again and again. and I have also made new head light and tail light (and reverse light) textures to go on the Omni. So heres some shots.

Doing the Slalom

In response to a previous Comment

Sadly an idea was to be had from a comment made in my last blog post... and I made this



I felt it was too funny not to do lol. Also did some small work on the CG shaders so now the car is fully CG'ed I believe. awesome

These Crazy Thoughts inside my head...

They keep on telling me to work on the Tradesman, because it is getting close to feeling like it should be released, working bugs out of it now, getting things just right, etc. The Raven variants now include both a 360 2 bbl, and a 440 4 bbl. both with only a 3 speed automatic. The mirrors have been remodeled and "mirrorized" (basically they are functional now). I put a fitting mask over the rear view mirror so you now have some blind spots in the rear view mirror. And I went ahead with Plum Crazy

Tradesman, stealing the show again...

Yet another post for the Tradesman, this time I've done up the interior gauges to light up at night, and made it have a few colors (still wondering if I should do Plum Crazy lol). I am usually a fan of red vehicles, but for some reason I like this van in Yellow, which is fine by me lol. Also made some new sounds for the thing.

PT work....

Well I've been messing around with CG shaders so I decided to have a go and fool around with it on my PT, so now it too has bump mapped tires(Thanks to Evan for the Textures and bump maps), and I decided to play a bit with the CG shader on the still un baked PT body, and I know sometimes I say I am like Top Gear, ambitious but rubbish, but for once, I feel I wasn't, ok the color isn't perfect but I feel I've created something really beautiful with this color, bright in the light dark in the shade (attributes of Inferno Red, I should know I actually have a PT that is this color).

This one is my favorite

Ok taking the pictures at dusk doesn't exactly showcase the colors greatness but the color really assisted in some great looking shots.

The Van gets "CG'ed"

With the rather recent introduction of CG shaders to Racer, which can do bump mapping, and some other neat features I have yet to figure out completely... Anyways I decided this Tradesman van should probably get on with the new type of shaders, so tucking the old shader away saftey, where no harm can reach it (so I can have a non-CG and CG version of it, for hopefully a later release). I went ahead and worked on some CG shaders to this thing, bump mapping and some other nice little features, really need to brighten up some of the interior textures still, But so far, not so bad I think, the tires and the license plate got bump mapped, had others but they didn't look as great I felt and they, I felt weren't that significant if I left them de-bump mapped. Also got around to getting a good texture on the glass, and remapping the exhaust tips to chrome, because everyone likes shiny exhaust tips lol.


Yes even the lettering on the tires now pops out

mmm shiny exhaust tips lol

Work on the Tradesman Continues

Just imagine the day, July 23rd 1978... Your done with college for the summer, You decide your going to goto the beach for a little while so you pack up your van with everything you will need to camp there for a couple days. The van of your choice? the Dodge Tradesman van. Flash forward 31 years, and some change, later. and my Tradesman just got a new texture both inside and out, this little B200 that is powered by a 360 and boasts a 3 speed automatic. I am pretty sure now that the textures are out of the way, the list of things to do on this thing are very, very small. So far for this little conversion, I've had the new textures, new wheels and tires, lights (this includes driving lights, brake lights, and reverse lights). a new Steering wheel, and plenty of fiddling with the car.ini.

Small Update

Ok as I mentioned before I'm working on Several cars, without showing pictures of any of them well nows your chance to see these cars

76 Aspen Wagon

76 Tradesman

Morris Mini

98 Grand Caravan

Chrysler 300M

Triumph Dolomite Sprint

1987 Dodge Omni

and I knew I was forgetting one...
Chrysler PT Cruiser


These are all the cars I'm working on right now (unless I forgot another one lol). Anyways, The PT, Aspen, and Tradesman are conversions (or adaptions same difference really though). The rest of the cars are completely mine. I'll try to update this blog every time I make progress on one of the cars, and if I decide one is worthy of being released (two cars I have right now are getting close) I will post them up here on my blog.

and I just noticed that for some reason blogs have a good tendancy to make you type a lot more than you intend to ever actually put down, weird lol.

First Post...I Guess

So I just got this blog, what you'll most likely see in this whole thing is me updating about my 3d model cars, and releasing them here for Racer (www.racer.nl).
Anyways here's a short list of the cars I'm working on currently...

1976 Dodge Aspen Wagon (with an assortment of engine sizes)
1976 Dodge Tradesman B200
Morris Mini and Mini Countryman
1998 Dodge Grand Caravan LE (high possibly of a same year swb Dodge Caravan LE)
Chrysler 300M
Triumph Dolomite Sprint
1987 Dodge Omni, and 1986 Shelby GLH-S

Now as for my past experience at doing this, I've worked with Zmodeler 1.07 for quite a few years now, tried others (currently trying out Rhino), but some how I've always been able to stick to just Zmodeler, though I myself am terrible at textures. Previous Cars include the 1986 Dodge Caravan SE, 1987 Dodge Caravan SE, 1989 Dodge Caravan ES Turbo, 2003 Chrysler Town and Country, 1992 Jeep Comanche, 1988 Ford Econoline, (I reworked it into a 1976 Ford Econoline, that is unreleased), and a 1985 Chrysler Laser Turbo. Some of the cars I modeled myself, others I adapted to Racer.