Hello speed dreams community I am a hobby 3d modeler and racing game player. I ve steped across Speed dreams a few weeks ago and really liked it. I just found that in speed dreams 2 some cars are a bit less detailed than they deserved, certainly for performance reasons i suppose. As one of these cars is one of my all times favourite I decided to have a go and rework it. Here I am now with a new model for the taipan lts-r more detailed and with twice as much polys (12'00 without the wheels) in it but i like it. Here are snapshots of what i achieved so far:
Note these wheels were downloaded on the google 3d wharehouse and so are too heavy to be used in speed dreams.
This model is still a work in progress but it starts to remind me of the original taipan lts-r. I still need to add the rollcage (which will cost quite a few polys on this car). The texturing is not finished and not great (but it is only my second serious UV mapping and I based it on the tutorial made for torcs). The wheels are only there to make it nicer and to see how it would look like with 3d wheels (which I think would add a lot more realism to speed dreams).
I already asked for that in another topic but will the new graphics engine be able to handle multiple shaders for the same model ??? It would certainly add realism and maybe free a bit of performance (with less reflections to compute).
I am using blender 2.6 (because of multiple reasons, the main ones are: powerful knife tool, powerful UV mapping and it is free) and I think support for blender 2.6 should be better (no .acc exporter and missing documentation). I don't just say that because I am a regular blender user, but rather because blender has become a very powerful modeler and with the new tools in the 2.6 versions models of high quality could be achieved quite quickly. And the most important aspect to me: If there is a way to create mods easily using totally free means it might motivate people to work on mods.
Anyway I hope you like the model and feel free to comment and make suggestions.
Have a nice evening !!!
JJ