Patriotic Canadian

honestly, i think just standing on the throttle for thirty seconds while on your roof is a pretty dumb thing to do, especially since i've heard that the motors don't even have rev limiters. i'm actually suprised more trucks don't go up in flames come to think

I'd go the other way around, make sure freestyle is as good as can be and then make racing out of it. The racing layout doesn't need to be as finely tuned and it's much simpler. doesnt make sense to base the complicated thing rigidly around the simple thing

I'm glad they put arrows on the ramps. Wasn't sure how to go over them until now

Honestly i think this'll play to Toddleduck and bradshaw, bradshaw did motorcross and ducface CORR trucks, both of which are bulit around rhythm sections and playing off them. My bet's on them oh, lee odonnell too, i'll bet he's manic after racing

well so much for saying they won't change anything. i like the skatepark thing they're going after, this could be good

Calling it now Donny gets freestyle in BJ's truck, Vaters gets racing, and all the despotic emotionally dead suits in feld collapse into accounting singularities which are later used as paper weights by more intellegent people

what does 3d physics even mean? physics that operate in three dimensions? that's sort of expected. That's like bragging about round wheels or a car with seat belts. yeah, we know, good for you

if that was actually blood, they would've been getting donald out of there with a shovel

Does it mean i'm wrong? Don't photocrop. It looks crap and takes no skill, learn how to do it properly with vector tools

\ behold, the most boring car in the history of mankind. i hate these things

or he could just do it the right way and put it over a dirt texture and set it to multiply

photocrops are bad and you should put down photoshop before you get hurt

Nitro circus certainly, but i think 199 was a different truck. The NC truck was the madusa one Keeping track of how FELD minds frames is a bit of a spider's web of stupid also, would everyone who's there mind gettin me shots of Wild Thang? i want that sucker done by week's end

I really don't know why kohler hasn't scrapped wrecking crew yet, that thing is as old as i am and it shows

DIBS. MINE. CALLING IT NOW, I MODEL THIS THING

Oh god it's perfectly symmetrical. Why.

yeah, no. That's not how that works

THE BACKFLIP RAMPS ARE BACK. WHY. they loveing ruined 14, why the love are they back, especially with the backflip loveing wall at the scoreboard side of the floor. They know there's a better way to do this and they still decided to make half the track unusable just like last year. bloody hellfire

Hey so it's vegas time again, and i'd just like anything and everything. Most importantly though, Titan, avenger, Max-d, zombie, 2xtreme, Captains Curse and El Diablo really anything is always a help, but, reference pictures and nice pictures to look at are not even remotely similar. I don't want to play the despot, but it's just true, people come to me with images they think are really helpful, and they're just not. I'm sorry, but unless i say something, that's gonna happen again, and i don't like wasted effort or eager helpfulness in vain. So first, let's talk orthos. Orthos seems to be a word i accidentally invented, but it comes from the word Orthogonal, which basically means a picture or drawing without perspective. Now to illustrate this, have two images. Now obviously no image in the world is going to be a perfect ortho, but even then, the bottom image is as close as can be to a perfect ortho as can be, but the top one is all but useless. Why? Because it's not orthogonal. Two reasons for this, firstly, the truck is obviously higher than the photographer, and therefore at an angle and is not a perfect representation of the shape. Secondly, and more importantly, it's closer to the camera, meaning to get it into frame, he's using a very wide lens. In order for cameras to get close objects into frame, the glass in a lens is curved. If it was entirely flat, the camera would be useless at a range of less than 30 feet, so the glass is curved to bend more of the light coming at it, therefore fitting it to the frame. Now our eyes do this too, what with being round and such, so it's no problem at all, unless you want an image to be orthogonal. The distortion of the light distorts the shape. So, taken from far away, zoomed in as much as possible, that curve is now in physical terms, flat. So now any image taken will be pretty much the best representation of an object's true form. Orthos can be rough, especially for scarce shots like a top down here. That's a pretty good ortho, certainly useable, but you'd have to knead out the perspective by eye, which is easy enough. Now that's not to say all shots that aren't orthos aren't helpful, the first one there was so high res it gave me a lot of definition of the finer details of the body, but it's useless to work against. Now onto reference images, which is what the first picture of max-d falls into. These are all reference images. They're used alongside to better understand the shape. Orthos are for broad stroke shape, reference images are for stitching in the finer details. There's a million billion images of iron man from a hundred feet away in the air, not so many of the little triangle shape and how it flows around the embossed logo and into the fender. That's the good stuff, and there's no real formula to it aside from the fact that it's all focusing on the finer details. The max-d one is a good description of the little ridges along the engine bay, the louvers on the engine bay and the shape of the pauldrons, and all those are fleshed out by the fact that it's from directly behind the truck with little perspective, whereas the CC one is a great description of the headlight shape, the window sill and the relation between the hood and the fenders, and only works well because it's heavily in perspective. so yeah, don't want to play the despot, but i think if the people with the camera know what's really the good stuff, i think there shan't be any wasted effort or disappointment. Also, take six times as many photos as you think you need. I always think i took loads, but i get back and oh, just seven pictures of kelvin reimer's cat. great. But yeah, if you got something, i'm always happy for it, cheers

Yeah well crazi taxi exists, and cabs can be crown vics, rolls royces or a 1922 essex, it's the same aesthetic archetype at the core, yellow thing what be taxi rael gud

the old taxi motif is a beat up 50's-60's american car in yellow and checkers, not some particular car like a nash rambler or a land yacht caddy, just any old car in yellow, how is a '57 chevy not an old american car

But are they exclusive from each other? I don't think so

wat

Subtle. Also, cap that fence with geometry, it's pretty obvious it's just a texture without being framed