Ewor 2011 progress -Bowler Nemesis WIP Body 5

Here you go peoples the model is now mapped and I have a basic version of in game ( just to check polys at this stage ).

The poly errors you see above have since been fixed.

The images below are just some quick renders with a test texture after the body was mapped

As you can see its starting to get there , still a long way to go till its running on a track but at least its starting to look it should. I know all of you who paint skins will be looking forward to painting this one.

Will post more eyecandy soon..  next is the suspension and the wheels so i can at least drive it LOL

Ewor 2011 progress -Bowler Nemesis WIP Body 4

I have done a bit more work to the model now and have nearly completed the base model, in the images below you will now see what will be the damage parts for the car, the part of the model that is blue will be the main body and the chassis parts which are grey atm are also part of that. All the other colours will be debris items. in the 2nd and 3rd images you can see sort of what the vehicle will look like once these pieces are detached.

The next step is to get the model into rfactor to see what it does to the polys before I go any further as some of you may already know rfactor sometimes does terrible things to polys and what looks like a great model in a modeling application looks like a giant marshmellow in rfactor. I will post some spinner screen shots once i have it in game, fingers crossed it still looks as good as it does now.

Ewor 2011 progress -Bowler Nemesis WIP Body 3

I have done a little bit more to the body, As you can see I have now added the doors as seperate pieces and have added the door jams

next is the inner guards and underbody panels, and the rest of the inner body panels at the rear of the car, then comes the big job off modeling the suspension, which is always a chore as rfactors vertex bending is crappy and it does horrible things to polys. hope you like how its turning out I will be posting more wip images soon

Ewor 2011 progress -Bowler Nemesis WIP Body 2

As promised I am uploading some more WIP images, I have now added the front bumper and have also added the tailgate section. As you can see from the images both the bonnet and tailagte sections are seperate pieces and thus will both be able to break of as damage.

next on the list it to start the underbody panels, and the inner body panels in the cockpit, so the doors can also become seperate pieces. Hopefully if all goes well I should be able to get that done today.

Ewor 2011 progress -Bowler Nemesis WIP Body

Just thought I would add some early test renders of the body, to show youall how the model is progressing, so far I have spent 4 days on the body and I am not even close to being done, poly count is about 7k polys total ( including the cockpit, so i still have plenty of room to add even more detail.

I will be adding some more images soon as I hope to get a lot more of this model completed over the next couple of days.  Please feel free to comment and let me know what you think

F1 2010 + Softh

Since I was mucking about with SoftTH I thought I may as well see what other games the new version works with. It never used to work with F1 2010, But it does now.. the game is way way more addictive in Tri Screen, the sense of speed is just awesome, and the FPS is still good as well.

Here are a couple of screen shots from the Melbourne GP track, which is one of my favorites :)

Dirt 2 + Softh

I decided I needed to drive again, so I found a tranformer that would work with my wheel ( as mine had died ) and fired up dirt 2, since i have the Tri screens setup, I decided to see if I could get the new version of SoftTH to work with Dirt 2 as it was a pain in the ass to get working before.

 The new version of SoftTH ( SoftTH204alpha) works like a charm no more pissing about with configs as it configs its self when you start the exe. Below are some screenies from Dirt 2.

The new version also has was better performance, frame rates have increased massivly, with the older versions i used to get 30 fps max in Dirt 2 when running SoftTH now i get over 80fps , which is a huge boost

Ewor 2011 progress -Bowler Nemesis WIP

Since I have not uploaded any eyecnady for awile now, I decided to post some early test renders of the current car that I am working on which is a Bowler Nemesis. The model that you can see in the images below is just the basic chassis, there is a lot more detail to go on it yet, at the moment its just over 1800 polygons, so i have a fair few still to play with. All the models for this version of EWOR are going to have very complex damage, I am trying to make the damage as it would be in real life, so bits of body work etc will be able to break off from all over the place. One other thing to note is that with this release of the mod all vehicles will have both a left and right hand drive option, with the exception of the single seaters.

Please check back soon as I will be posting a bit more eyecandy over the next few days, not only of this vehicle but the others as well.

Ewor 2011 progress -Update

Just thought I would make a post to let you all know how the mod is going.

I have completed 90% of the models now and they are currently in the UV mapping stage which is taking some time as they are a bit more complex than before. As for the release date of the mod, well thats kinda unkown atm as I dont know how or what I have to do in regards to the suspension in regards to rfactor 2 so I will just contiue to get them all ready to a stage where i just have to complete the suspension models then dump them into rfaco once its released. I did think about making this mod for the current version of rfactor but that would just mean I would have to redo it all again when rfactor 2 is released which would kinda be a waste of time.

So far I have completed the following.

2 x super buggys, 3 x class 1 buggys, 2 x 4x4 (Toyota  Land Cruiser 60 series, Nissan GQ  Patrol)

and I am currenty working on a Bowler Nemisis and a VW Touareg.

Once the models are ammped I will post up some renders so you all can see them.

 I just hope that the new version or rfactor has a better way for the suspension to bend other than the current vertex bending as that kinda limits the way the suspension can be modeled as the vertex bending

more updates soon