abdelkader Wrote:
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> Helmut, to be honest, I took the idea from you
> because I noticed this solution in the F40
> Challenge carset you mentioned and I really loved
> it. It was a pretty clever thing to do.
>
> I decided to make dark grey windscreens because I
> think it looks more realistic. When you look out
> of the window you don't see cars with blue
> windows. What you see is darkness through which
> hardly anything can be seen.
>
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> shlund Wrote:
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> >What about the rear lights? - as far as I can see
> they too are in the Ferrari bmps.
>
> As you can see, they are visible when placed on
> the carshape but it's down to Porsche's rear shape
> why they are not well visible.
>
> >Will it be possible to make round head lights (as
> BMW) or will it be too much stretch??
>
> Well, I haven't tried to do it. I suppose that it
> would be too much stretch because, as you see, the
> fragment of a livery which is responsible for the
> headlights is extremely small. It would be a hard
> thing to make the lights roundshaped...
>
> To be honest, I also find a Porsche with
> rectangular lights quite disturbing
> I have just got cracking with making small
> elipses on the livery bmp to make lights
> roundshaped but what I managed to make were small
> and narrow futuristic headlights which in no way
> resemble a circle.
>
> >Perhaps it is now possible to make the WTCC
> series with a matching carshape and bmps...
> wonderful >news
> Sure it is possible but it demands more work.
> Usually the car painters painted their cars in the
> way that open wheelers are painted. Now they would
> have to paint liveries so that they look good on a
> particular carshape. The task is manageable but
> quite a demanding one.
I know what you mean because the Le Mans shape requires the same way of painting
But it is absolutely possible to make the bmps fit to the carshape... Let's see what happens and perhaps try to learn how to paint on the Porsche car shape..