Shape ideas

[Chulk]

Batmobile: Which one?

Obviously Keaton's movie was the best!

Grease Lightning:

Travolta's car in 'Grease' (I suppose)

The Sheepdog from Dumb & Dumber:

Hate the movie and everything related to it except JC

Ford T

A must have classic!

Other legendary cars:
- General Lee
- DeLorean from Back to the Future

Yes, please!


Here's a couple cars I'd love to race with:

[CTG]

Fighting against my daemon (the car I always wanted to build) - seems to be too hard to make a decent 3D model. At least the engine is ready. If I say the torque value is constant between 74h and 89h, will you find out which car it is?

And that constant torque value is 202. It's not that hard to find out which car has such a strong engine...   

[Overdrijf]

Wow, I missed something in this topic. CTG is on the loose.

[CTG]

Okay, it's time to finish (or rather suspend) creating new 3D shapes and try to work on engines / dashboards. On one hand, knowing the physical background of CarBlaster tuning values, it seems to be fun. On the other hand, dashboards are still annoying - any volunteers to create some? 

So what's left (will be updated, just like airplane set):

Bugatti Veyron: finish dashboard

F1 car: upgrade to season 2013 (waiting for the new paintjobs)

Flinstone car: engine setting, dashboard

Ikarus 260: revise torque curve

Knight Industries 2000: finish dashboard

Lada Niva (Comeback): engine settings for the non-tuned version, dashboard

Lada VAZ 2105: engine settings, dashboard

Mountain bike: "engine" settings (basic concept: 2 smu weight, max. RPM: 512, waiting for bike experts' opinion), "dashboard"

Porsche 550 Spyder: dashboard

Roller: project status is the same as for bike

Skoda 120:: minor change of the 3D shape, dashboard

Subaru Impreza WRC: fine tuning of the engine (acceleration curve is a bit weird); finish dashboard

Top Fuel dragster: dashboard

[zaqrack]

max RPM for a bike can be hardly over 180RPM and that's already far from the efficiency peak.

Most efficient pedaling comes in the range of 90-110RPM. Typical long-term power output of pipsqueaks is at 300Watts for several hours, best sprinters can output 1500-2000Watts but of course only for a short time.
This is of course all for a racing bike

[CTG]

max RPM for a bike can be hardly over 180RPM and that's already far from the efficiency peak.

Most efficient pedaling comes in the range of 90-110RPM. Typical long-term power output of pipsqueaks is at 300Watts for several hours, best sprinters can output 1500-2000Watts but of course only for a short time.
This is of course all for a racing bike

Thanks! Unfortunately the torque curve contains 128 rpm steps, so it must be manipulated a bit to get a realistic bike.

[CTG]

Porsche 550 Spyder: dashboard

Is it possible to make a dashboard with transparent parts? Spyder has a way too small windscreen to apply the usual pvs modules.

[Duplode]

Is it possible to make a dashboard with transparent parts? Spyder has a way too small windscreen to apply the usual pvs modules.

Yes, it is. Dashboard resources with an "m" suffix (dasm, inm1, etc.) are transparency masks. I suggest you to check the Indy dashboard, I believe it is quite close to what you want to achieve.

[CTG]

Is it possible to make a dashboard with transparent parts? Spyder has a way too small windscreen to apply the usual pvs modules.

Yes, it is. Dashboard resources with an "m" suffix (dasm, inm1, etc.) are transparency masks. I suggest you to check the Indy dashboard, I believe it is quite close to what you want to achieve.

1, Thank you!
2, How could I be that stupid, I've already edited Indy's dashboard in 2009...
3, It gave me a silly idea that needs a lot of time to complete (maybe it isn't worth to do).

[Friker]

*#&@??ß[??]!!!

Losing some custom vehicles by copying files - in a bad direction...

Your mum did not teach you to backup your data?

[CTG]

*#&@??ß[??]!!!

Losing some custom vehicles by copying files - in a bad direction...

Your mum did not teach you to backup your data?

That was the backup process...

(the punishment for editing cars at my workplace? )

Rumours say that they spy our internet usage.

[dreadnaut]

Versioning is a very good habit to pick up, if you have 5 minutes to read a tutorial. hg or git will save you a lot of pain.

[CTG]

Versioning is a very good habit to pick up, if you have 5 minutes to read a tutorial. hg or git will save you a lot of pain.

It happened when I wanted to copy the files from the pendrive to the computer. Somebody was talking to me, I wasn't really aware and picked the inverse direction. It would not be a big problem (as the files were still there), but after that the pendrive was formatted, because I needed the whole storing capacity for something else. Few hours later I recognized the mistake...  (quite typical deconcentration error)

Not a big loss anyway:

- Flinstone car (only .3sh)
- Skoda 120 (only the crappy 3D model)
- roller & bike  (easy shapes)
- Bugatti Veyron's dashboard (90% ready)
- Ikarus colorset + engine setting (the last version was made on my own computer)

[alanrotoi]

What about the Mean Machine 00 from Wacky Races?

[CTG]

Btw I think this one will be the slowest Stunts vehicle ever. Top speed is around 120 km/h (~75 mph), acceleration (0-100 km/h) must be about 25-30 s. 

Slower than this one? 
(Attached is a .RES file intended for JTK's van that was lying in my Stunts folder - last modification date is 2010-10-24. I think that the tuning data roughly matches the specs JTK posted in one of the threads; I probably have made it a little bit faster for sanity reasons, though.)

I wonder if somebody finishes the "JTK's van" project and we use it at least once in a competition, will the lazy Kalpens come back?

If the answer is 'yes', I'll start it immediately.