Have you people visited the Aircraft design forum lately?

If so, take a look at these pics I made on my progress with the mercedes.

If you never did visit the other forum, then I'll tell you this.

Project Mercedes is the GMAX construction of the German car formally known as the Mercedes SL600. It took me a hell of a long time to get this far.

But before that, I was at the point of sending this project to the scrapyard. But a change of heart has forced me to send it to the recycle yard instead.

What will this model have when finished?

It will have literally everything.

1. Movable steering wheel, Accelerator, clutch pedal and brake pedal.
2. Steerable front wheels
3. Active suspension on all four wheels
4. reflective textures on the surface, windows, and side and rear view mirrors.
5. Highly detailed interior
6. Animated doors, trunk, hood, and EVEN the side windows as well. You heard me right.
7. And lots more.

This project will be the first big undertaking of all time for me. I will be real busy on this model, especially the interior.

But this will not be the only car project I have in store for you people. I am also planning on make a '79 Corvette Stingray II when I'm done.

Ok, now for the pics.









It's not yet finished as you can see. When done, I'll start on the Corvette.

What other cars do you people want me to make?

I'm getting rather good at it.

Note: My first model will be somewhat of a Frame-rate eater.

nice pics and model. My little list:

BMW Z8
BMW X-5
Mustang - any year is fine
Jeep Cherokee, Grand Cherokee, or military Jeep
Explorer Sport Trac (can get some photo-real textures, sounds, pics etc of this.... )

You know, it would be kind of neat if you could link the CD player to Windows Media Player, that way you could listen to music while driving...

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I don't like that tone.

Many flight sim users who have cars (the controlable kind) don't really use them a lot on roads. The roads are bumpy anyways.

Instead, a lot of flight sim users drive these cars around on the tarmac or along the runways (where the surface is concrete and smooth). Besides, most of the details are in the airports themselves, and all aircraft start in an airport.

I have been putting forth a lot of work on this model. I have spent months trying to prepare this model and to get it to be how it is now.

I am already planning on making 2 versions of this car.

1. A clean model that will not have a DVC and will only have a few animated parts. This will reduce the strain on Low-end PCs.

2. A full model that will have litterally everything on it. This is for High-end PCs only, due to its high poly count for its outer surface and detailed interior.

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What in the world does GTA3 and GTA:VC mean?

How many of you are even aware of the Bricklin SV-1 ?

.......now that would be a nice addition to anything......and it was out before John DeLoreans 88 mph wonder.........

Is this for FS? Cars in flight simulater tend not to handle well due to the way they set up the terrain, they crash easily over bumps. I do love to take that Mercades that was posted a week ago and do doughnuts at down the Vegas strip or launch it off the ArrCab carriers.  Actually, that's how they test the steam catapults in real life, by launching old cars off them.

That would be awesome!  You could have a 1971 Hemi-Cuda vs. a 69 Chevelle SS!  Or even better, a Boss 429 vs. an F/A-18 Hornet!

Hmm, a souped-up car vs. an F-18 Hornet. 8)

Now that will be a sight to see.

I've seen a video clip of an f1 car against an f18 and in terms of acceleration the f1 car has an edge but the the f18 far far far far far far out ranks the f1 in terms of top speed.

I'm using the so-called FSREGEN thing and it's confusing me.

I installed Middleman but there still some problems.

Can someone here please help me on this? A tip will do fine for me.

I tested a previous scenery model that was supposed to have a hard surface (a helipad). Well, it appeared in FS2002pro, but the aircraft just went right through the surface without crashing.

Where am I going wrong?

Oh, one more thing.

I need some photo images or possibly a diagram of the Mercedes' interior. Remember, I'm making the SL600 model.

Sorry I haven't replied to this post in along while, but I was a bit busy trying to figure out how to construct the interior of the Mercedes SL600.

I have new pics for you people of the model in FS2002pro.

I was expecting the frame-rate to be impacted in a negative way due to its high poly count, but surprisingly enough, the FPS is still high (note: I have a high performance PC).



This is another view.



I know that the interior is not finished, but you can imagine the kind of trouble I went through just to get the interior side-walls correct (extruding polys, uniform-scaling, adjusting a TON of vertices, etc.).

What do you think?

how many polys??

Hey everyone, I have just finished half of the interior.

This dash-board took me some time to set up.


The rear portion of the interior was already easy to make. I highlighted some of the polys so that you can see the details I made.


Here is a better view of the front interior.


I also have animated the doors.


Don't worry about the seats. I'll start making them as soon as I am finished making some more details (pedals, steering wheel, side windows, etc.).

I will soon be looking for textures of the car itself.

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Regardless of its high level of detail, this model will still be FREEWARE. It will be posted on simviation.

As for the release date, I expect that this model be finished just after FS2004 hits stores.

that's okay...

Nissans are also one of my favorite cars (however, corvettes are mostly cherished by me).

Ahh yes, the Austin Martin Vanquish. I've seen that movie already and it's good. For a car like that, you'll be seeing a lot of reflective textures.

Well well well. I know I have a talent for cars as well.

A truck huh? A truck should be a lot easier to make since they are a bit more box-like.

At the end of this month, I'll be moving soon to a new neihborhood (and a better one) that is just next to mines. I know a lot of people there who own very good cars (MR2s, Cobras, Big-@55-yet-good trucks, etc.).

That way, I can get a lot of help when it comes to getting textures, sounds, and photo images for the panels.

Even though I'm better at making cars, I will still have the hobby of making planes as well.

   Since we're talking about  Cars,  how about  the 63'
  vette  with  split rear window.  The 64 looks just
  like it except the rear window went all the way
  across.  1 more car, the 1967  dodge Charger.

99 Wrangler? How about an 03 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon. Now that'd be awesome.

Justin

A double decker london bus would be nice (I could even help there, I travel on them nearly every day) or a Ferrari F1

I've only seen a single decker, Where do you get the double
Thanks
Mitchel

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i saw it at flightsim.com a while back. . .i think it was by Shigeru Tanaka. . .but i am not positive