Forum: MarketPlace Showcase

Subject: Shark Attack Concept-Car a few steps away from finish .

robert.sharkey opened this issue on Mar 23, 2002 ยท 15 posts

robert.sharkey posted Sat, 23 March 2002 at 4:25 PM

As mentioned in a earlier post i've cutted the hood the way it's a flip-front. The hardest thing on this was to find the ringt angle-point that the hood can be opened without touching the wheels too much. Means it's not possible to not touch the wheels, because otherways the hood couldn't open as much as needed. But it stives the wheels now on a really small area. Now i also have to find a good line which doesn't destroy the sideline to much for the doors. After this the door-inlays can be done. After cutting the doors the engine will become a new fuel-injection-system and cylinder-covers. And finally the whole thing had to be run trough UVMapper to assign the groups and all the materials. At end the base collor will be a grey fading to black with a appropriate reflection-map. SHARKEY

ClintH posted Sat, 23 March 2002 at 4:31 PM

OK - I'm selling the Camaro. I want one! Very nice Robert. Clint

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robert.sharkey posted Sat, 23 March 2002 at 4:37 PM

Hey Clint, may we can trade as long as your Camaro is a 68'SS. Hehe. Robert

ClintH posted Sat, 23 March 2002 at 5:21 PM

Robert - I wish! I want to get one of them for my wife as a restoration project. Mine is a 99 Z28 kicking out around 340hp.. By the end of summer I hope to have her in the 400hp range. :) Clint

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lalverson posted Sat, 23 March 2002 at 7:58 PM

You have no Idea how hard it is to keep Ionne's from diving down my dialup connection and popping up on your system to woo you into taking a test drive. Very sexy, sexy car

Valandar posted Sat, 23 March 2002 at 8:06 PM

Dude, this car ROCKS! I can't wait to see the finished version, and all the add-ons that you (and other people?) will add to it.... wowsers...

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ChromeTiger posted Sun, 24 March 2002 at 12:51 AM

Oh yeah, this baby is going in the garage right next to the Silver Vision...I see wonderful things happening with this fine automobile...I'll be watching hard for this one. One suggestion/request, Robert? Could you include a texture template with this one? I see several custom paint jobs in my head already... Can't wait! CT

davidm posted Sun, 24 March 2002 at 8:14 AM

WOW! Great shape Robert! Love those wheels. Looks like a 21st Century incarnation of the classic Sixties Batmobile! Great work! Dave :-)

ClintH posted Sun, 24 March 2002 at 8:24 AM

:) I see Corvette lines in it. :) Clint

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robert.sharkey posted Sun, 24 March 2002 at 3:29 PM

Chrometiger, for shure the template will this time be included. Clint, yes, while i'm a corvette enthusiast (have a 72 Stingray LT1) which likes the 67'Mako Shark Corvette there is some shape adapted from it. But as the corvette tends to not bring the power to the ground i added the hugh rear-spoiler to it. Oh and yeah, not to mention the flip-front. Yesterday night i tryed a lot of shapes for the doors, but all of them had destroid the sideline to much to use em. But what i've found out is that it's not possible to create the doors the way that the will open upwards. It's simply not possible about the technical side of the cars shape. So if it will receive doors, they will be anyway normal opening ones. SHARKEY

ChromeTiger posted Mon, 25 March 2002 at 2:44 AM

Sharkey, This may sound nuts, and in fact may be impossible to do, but I think I know a way to make your doors, without ruining the lines, and still have uniqueness... How about doors that pivot slightly out, then straight forward? Your cut line could be just ahead of the rear wheelwell. The door, when opened, would move away from the body approximately 6-8 scale inches, and then move directly ahead, as if on a track. That actual door panel wouldn't have to be any larger than the space from the rear windsheaild joint to the front of the rear wheelwell to allow ample access (based on the images above). Hope that maybe helps you out a bit...I'm not sure logistically how it would work in Poser, but I could see it working on a real life version of this baby... CY

robert.sharkey posted Mon, 25 March 2002 at 6:04 AM

Thanks a lot for your help Chrometiger. Have found a solution for the doors with your suggestions. Will try this at evening at home with the actual model. SHARKEY

ChromeTiger posted Tue, 26 March 2002 at 1:45 AM

Glad I could help, though what you have above isn't quite what I pictured...I wish I were a modeler so I could post a pic of it. Let's see if I can detail this out a bit, in case what you have above doesn't work (looks good by the way): See the light green bar you have at the leading edge of the door? Picture two of those, one high, one low. When you open the door, they swing outward, bringing the door straight out away from the car. The bars would pivot 90 degrees, so that they point straight out of the car body. The door would have two tracks along the interior side. The occupant would then push forward on the door, sliding it along the tracks & pivot bars, toward the front of the car, almost like a sliding glass door. The door itself wouldn't need to swing up. Structurally, this would be a better arrangement, as the door pivoting up like that would need more support than the single pivot point you have. Also, there's no way to install the hydraulics you'd need to keep the door in the raised position. Just providing a little more in hopes that it helps. I know this is a 'concept car', but from the look of the Silver Vision, I think you'd want to keep as much realism as possible as well. Can't wait to see the finished project! CT

ChromeTiger posted Tue, 26 March 2002 at 1:50 AM

Additional Note: Looking at the current door assembly, and looking at the hood, it doesn't look like you'd realistically be able to open the hood with the doors open. Switching to the pivot & track assembly would allow you to raise the hood without the doors interfering, as they'd stay level with the body of the car. I'm probably being a pest at this point, but my grandfather was an aeronautical engineer, so I was taught to over-analyze everything... ;-) CT

robert.sharkey posted Tue, 26 March 2002 at 6:20 PM

Thanks for the help ChromeTiger. As you described what you meant i've tryed how this would look, but wasn't happy with this methode. It lost with this the dynamic of a sportscar. So i decided to make the bar much stronger and forced my brain to find a solution to swing the doors up with no muscle-power. Then i got the idea. Into the inner door is a spring (red) and cylinder in the disk. So when the doors where pushed outside the spring and cylinder will moved it automatically upwards. The disk is designed the way that there is a automatic stop about the inserted angles. Uhhh, don't know if what i described can be understand. But anyway, this will technically work. Now i've just to convert the whole thing to meshs, assign materials and groups and do the CR2. Think i can finish everything to Thursday. ChromeTiger, if you wants i'll send you a copy to test. Just send me a mail to: sharkey@cybergate-corp.ch SHARKEY