Slow Times - 908 in progress

Well as I said , ADD kicks in, as well as starting a new contract. I probably won't be doing much for a while, a real job has started. Fun while it lasted. Jaguar is half baked, on the way. The Audi revamp is underway, there are some interesting changes, small but significant and I am currently looking at it. The RS Spyder is further along ... but as I say time is disappearing. And there you go I start a new one, the Peugeot 908. As if there wasn't enough that I want to do, I find another that just "needs" to be done. The game cry's out for it ....

I will wander in the weeds for a while. then refocus ... basically the story of my life. So many cars, so little time. Stay tuned, there probably won't be a lot during the summer but I will be picking away. Oh, BTW, picture is a preview of the 908 under construction ...

LMP Clean-up

Comes to the end of a project and am ADD kicks in ... what's next. Well I started to clean-up some of the work I did last year on the the ALMS 2007 cars, I have started the Porsche Spyder RS and the Audi's. I have learned an awful lot doing the 90's project so I want to apply it to these cars. Probably do the 2008 versions as well. To begin with, I deconstruct them, break them into parts and clean up the polies. I hope to reduce them to about 2200 each. They sit up around 2700. I will remap using standard sized bmp's, the original large ones chokes the game engine. I will also construct the low res VE file. With the 90 Group C mod I am now running 18 cars on the laptop, (a smaller machine than my racing one". The game is built for 16. If I get anything more than that, it is a bonus. I don't know how far I will go, but the new Le Mans coupes look pretty cool for sure....mmmm maybe.

Jaguar XJR-11 Model Done

Was a bit tough without a proper blueprint. There is a lot of eyeballing involved but I think it is going to be okay. Might be a bit "choppy" over the fenders and I think the front radiator duct is a bit high up on the nose. I may look at it, but the poly count is up there now so I am reluctant. I may do an automatic simplify by 90%, then add some to smooth the fenders. I put the wheels and driver in the libary, pretty useful. Will keep this feature in mind for the future.

Jaguar XJR-11 Model Started

Haven't found a proper blueprint, so I am using a pretty generic, (poor) one and going to have to eyeball the differences. This is one one my favourite cars, I have a bit of connection through a friend, with one of the Jaguar drivers and he always loves to see any Jag that I produce. (Don't they say, "Six degrees of separation to anyone on the planet"). The XJR-11 competed in the World Championship races, the XJR-12 was used at Le Mans. There are visual differences in the body but I beleive the engine was the key change.