SLR scale has always been off and doesnt represent real life, so the next best thing is scaling to a rim that will look right.

I like what you are doing but i suggest you make it work with 221MWM as that is what 90% of the people use.

Other then that a wonderful job, it seems like you have been doing this for way longer, have you? and if yes can you show some of the stuff you made?

@ Jaziba: Thanks! This is the second mod I have started by myself. My first mod was the 1993 ("Foxbody") Mustang. I have also done a number of tweaks to various cars by other people, including a pack of new parts for the Ford Sierra.

Also, as far as why I'm using 2.3.0LE, it's because that game version isn't as picky about having everything work at the same time. LE loads all of the packages when they're needed, unlike MWM, which loads everything when the game starts - this means LE is a bit more crash-proof, even if it does mean it's harder to hunt down bugs. These pics were taken from my "test installation", where I keep mods while I'm working on them. I have another "main" LE installation, and then an LE2MWM installation that's made to be basically the same as the main LE installation except that it's based on MWM.

@ Grudas: Thanks for the advice. I think I will scale it so that the 19" wheels fill the arches a little bit better, but not so much that the car is really under-scaled. My original intention was to get the car to look the same on 19" wheels as in that photograph, which also shows the car on 19" wheels. But for practical reasons, I will scale the car down.

I do not understand your question entirely, but the finished car will be compatible with 2.2.1MWM.

Harrison15, Really nice work on the cars! Not my kind of car, but its nice!
I don't know if its just because its 2.3.0LE, but im not sure if i like the reflection xD

Great work ,Harrison15!
This car is just AWESOME!

Thank you! I'll try that and post the results when I get a chance.

Added 6 days later:

Aaaaand the rescaling is done, along with most of the light glows and some more of the HSV parts.




Pics of the HSV rear bumper / lights / spoiler during the day.


G8 spoiler.


Light-glows on G8. Front bumper / quarter panel glows not done yet.



EDIT - some notes: These pics were taken in MWM (technically LE2MWM) this time around. Also, I forgot to take a pic that clearly shows the side of the car, but the scale has been reduced by 2%. The 19" wheels now fit a little bit better.

Looking great!

@ JC: It would have been more obvious if I took a side-view pic. I'll make sure to do that the next time I take a set of screenshots. The car now looks "properly big" and fits 19" wheels comfortably, versus it being too big and 19" wheels looking tiny.

nice car :X

Random question for an experienced modder: Is there any way to create a "shift light" (a light that lights up when the engine RPMs exceed a certain value)? I thought of creating a glow mesh that uses the cockpit_RPM thing in the CFG and then setting it to rotate 180 degrees once it passes the desired rev limit, but that does not allow for multiple RPM needles (I still want the standard one) or for attaching it to a part other than the chassis.

Also, is there any way to read the time of day and whether or not the car is "on" (lights are on, engine is started) from within a part's java? I think I might be able to create pop-up headlights that open by themselves when the car turns on.

Thanks for the response, Bigg Boss! For the pop-up headlights, Franco's 3000GT wing was actually what I was thinking of using as the basis. What I need to figure out is how to read the time of day from within the java for the part. I'll have to go code-diving into the sources for the rest of the game, I guess.

As far as the needle, I remember reading that someone was unable find a way to access the current engine RPM reading (they were working on variable cam timing), but if I could figure it out, I would probably use the same method.

Neither of those things pertains directly to the Commodore; they're just for random other SLRR things.

Added 14 days later:

Got another scripting question. (I also posted this to GOM.)

I am having a problem getting a tuning menu to read the values from the menu into the part's variables. I have created tuning menus before, but I can never get multiple-choice menus (like the standard fuel type menu) to work. Additionally, even though I have gotten slider-based menus to work, I cannot get this one in particular to work; it seems very stubborn.

Here is the code in question. (I am omitting part of the java source because not all of it is relevant, and it is a rather lengthy class file. This IS for the animated headlights I was describing before.)

	float rads, degs, fullcloserads, fullopenrads;
	float old_rads;
	
	float old_open_mode;
	
	public int isTuneable()
	{
		return true;
	}
	
	public void buildTuningMenu( Menu m )
	{

		demonstrate_sleeper = 1;
		
		old_rads = rads;
		degs = rad2deg(rads);

		old_open_mode = open_mode;
		
		String[]	headlightmodeText = new String[4];
		headlightmodeText[0] = "Standard (Full Open/Close)";
		headlightmodeText[1] = "Full Close, Custom Angle When Open";
		headlightmodeText[2] = "Custom Angle When Closed, Full Open";
		headlightmodeText[3] = "Custom Angle Full-Time";

		m.addItem( "Headlight Mode: ", 2, open_mode, headlightmodeText, null );

		m.addItem( "Custom Headlight Angle", 1, degs, (rad2deg(fullcloserads)), (rad2deg(fullopenrads)), 1.1, null ).printValue("   %1.1f degrees");
	
		m.addItem( "Reset to factory defaults",			0);	//this should always be with cmd=0
		

	}

	public void endTuningSession( int cancelled )
	{
		if( cancelled )
		{
			rads = old_rads;
			open_mode = old_open_mode;
		}
		else
		{
			if (rads != old_rads)
				GameLogic.spendTime(5*60);
			if (open_mode != old_open_mode)
				GameLogic.spendTime(5*60);
			getCar_LocalVersion();
			if (the_car)
				the_car.forceUpdate();
		}
		demonstrate_sleeper = 0;
		animate_progress = 0.5; // forces animation to reset
	}

	public void handleMessage( Event m )
	{
		if( m.cmd == 0 )
		{
			rads = fullopenrads;
			m.gadget.osd.findGadget( this, 1 ).setValue( 0 );
			m.gadget.osd.findGadget( this, 2 ).setValue( rad2deg(fullopenrads) );

			setSlotPos( 7, null, new Ypr(0.000,rads,0.000) );
			
			open_mode = 0;
		}
		else
		if( m.cmd == 1 )
		{
			rads = deg2rad(((Slider)m.gadget).value);
			degs = ((Slider)m.gadget).value;
			((Slider)m.gadget).changeVLabelText( Float.toString(degs, "   %1.1f degrees"));
			setSlotPos( 7, null, new Ypr(0.000,rads,0.000) );
		}
		else
		if( m.cmd == 2 )
		{
			open_mode = ((MultiChoice)m.gadget).value;
		}
	}
	
	public float rad2deg( float rad )
	{
		return(rad * 180 / 3.141);
	}
	public float deg2rad( float deg )
	{
		return(deg * 3.141 / 180);
	}

It is actually Java. SLRR was built using Java, and all of the cars use Java as their basis.

I'd really appreciate it if someone would help me figure out what the problem is here. There is nothing glaringly wrong, but yet it doesn't work! So frustrating.

W00t! I think I may have found the problem, thanks to Bigg Boss93 and Franco's posts on GOM. I am probably missing the following line in the buildTuningMenu method:

GameLogic.player.car.wakeUp();

I'll add this and see if it works. I do not have access to my SLRR installation right now, but I'll do it later. (This is mostly a note to myself more than to anyone else, but should also help anyone who has similar problems in the future.)

@ Radu: Thanks for offering, but I have already done the RPM and speed gauges in the Commodore and I know how to do those in general.

Added 7 hours 20 minutes later:

Aargh! I found out that the code I had written is correct, but the animation code prevents the tuning menu from altering the variables! It has something to do with thread execution; I'm not knowledgeable enough about Java to have any idea how to fix this. I tried a couple of things that caught my eye on the Java database, including setting the "rads" and "degs" variables to volatile, but that didn't help.

Miran? Wichur? RAXAT? Anyone?

Added 18 days later:

More Commodore stuff!

FYI: dG.Cyanide @ GOM has offered to help me with the Commodore.

HSV GTS E3 front bumper and rear wing, converted from FM4 by Joealex. Rear bumper coming soon. Also shows carbon fiber hood, interchangeable badges, and hood addon bits that are interchangeable. Also note that the wheels here are the W427 wheels. GTS wheels will be here too eventually.

Again, rear bumper not done yet; neither are badges. Note the chrome trim on the trunk; this is a custom trunk.


V8 Supercars front bumper and grille. This has been done for a while, but I haven't gotten around to taking pics of it. Regular Commodore SS front bumper will be based off of this one. Rear bumper again not done yet. Note the wing in the background.

Chevrolet Lumina (Middle East) grille.

Chevy rear badge.


Other things that have gotten done but aren't in pictures yet: The interior has been re-done so that it is recolorable by exchanging textures; Holden, Chevy, and HSV steering wheels (the Pontiac one used to be the only one); and the G8 GXP wheels have been imported too.

# radu_cainamisir : Did you try to put a little releflection at the lights texture?

if you use the transparency(alpha) the reflection doesnt shows up

Added 2 minutes later:

(at least, this is what happens to me)

i understand, but i mean at the texture "lights", or what name you have, to set the spectacular level and a little glossiness

I refer to the color, This is my setup:

Thanks for the tips about the glass. I'll try some things out and see if I can get it to look any better. Though I won't be changing the red tail-light glass - that looks fine to me.

Added 2 hours 29 minutes later:

This is the result of adjusting the glass material. I think it looks way better.
(Decreased opacity from 50% to 30%, and darkened diffuse color from 150 to 90.)

Nice work man

RHD chassis and re-texturable interior:



(Interior color can now be changed by swapping out texture files. Tan interior is also possible but not shown in these pics.)

Fun with scripting. Watch what happens when I hit the "skip 8 hours" button.


(Not 'shopped or otherwise edited. The lights do, in fact, go up when the time is between 7PM and 7AM.)

Also, the car that this is attached to.



Incidentally: Does anyone know what part of the core game scripts controls whether the lights are on or not? Or how you could tell whether or not the car is started? This would be a huge help.