Deanna Troi's Conversion Studios

[Franch88]

It's nice to see you interested with the low polygons cars modeling, but looking at the polygons placement, I'd say that's not a good start... You can find lot of examples to see how the best ways to place the polygons. Keep training.

[Deanna_Troi]

Thanks everyone!

Okay, here's the improved mesh placement for my Crown Vic. So far I got the front and the top and the back windscreen done, now I must start the back and the bottom (Not an easy task, but hey ).


Also, I got bored, so I converted something hehe:



Originally made by Paul_7 back when BOX Designs exist (2001)

[matyii]

Your Crown Vic's model looks nice so far! And the other car looks nice too! Going to try out when it gets released!

[Franch88]

The model is looking good, now the polygons placement is more convincing. But, you could still split the side windows part to have some more polygons like is with the doors zone.
Nice conversion too.

[Fuyunyan]

Nice work!

[Deanna_Troi]

Thanks y'all, for the lovely comments!

But, you could still split the side windows part to have some more polygons like is with the doors zone.

I could do it, but that'll require me more time and more learning, which (as indicated) would take months, so i'll just leave it as-is.

While I am still working on the scratch-built Crown Vic, i'll treat you to four more MM1 cars converted to MM2!

1985 Buick Regal (original author Paul_7)




1985 Pontiac Parisienne (original author JN_Parisienne, Camaro, and Qwerty_86)




1989 Pontiac Bonneville (original author Qwerty_86)




2000 Pontiac Grand Prix GT (original author PR0_ironchair)
NOTE: This particular car did not work in MM1 (it crashed MM1), so I thought i'd convert this to MM2 just to drive it.

[mm2mm1fan]

Great job on the cars, that Crown Vic looks cool .

[sajmon14]

Great cars Some of them have some normals problems that need to be fixed. By the way does the MM1 dashboard need some fixing/position editing after converting to MM2?

[Deanna_Troi]

Thanks for the comments mm2mm1fan and sajmon14!

Some of them have some normals problems that need to be fixed. By the way does the MM1 dashboard need some fixing/position editing after converting to MM2?

Unfortunately, BMS 2 PKG tends to muck the normals up, and I am not too good at fixing them. As for your second question, actually, I used the dash textures itself (along with the dash steering wheel textures), assembled them using Paint.NET, and enlarged the image carefully so that it will fit when I use Maxoff's MM2 Dashboard Placer, and from there I fix and position them, using the screenshots I took of the original car's dashboard as a reference to position them properly. Although the image may be blurry, but hopefully you can still make them out.

[KingAndy]

Great cars! It's really cool to see these nice MM1 cars now on MM2. Also, by knowing your previous works I expect them to be great quality, usually these kind of conversions always use recycled stuff from the default cars.

About the normals, try to split the model into different parts with the polys facing about the same direction (like separating front, back, sides and top) and normalizing each part separately. If you download Blender, convert the car models into .obj and importing them there, you can do that more easily and usually with better results.

[Franch88]

Very nice conversions and dashboards adaption, you got a good idea.
Yeah, there are some normal problems, maybe pretty difficult to fix, but the case shown in the rear part of the 1985 Buick Regal, on the second screenshot, looks more to be the one of not connected vertices.

[Seahawk]

Good to see some low-poly sedans back.

[carfan1061]

Wow MM1 car conversions to MM2 I love the look of MM1 cars so you probebly know how exited I am to see you do this

[Deanna_Troi]

Thanks everyone for your comments!

Wow MM1 car conversions to MM2 I love the look of MM1 cars so you probebly know how exited I am to see you do this

Yeah, me too . In fact, i've been wanting to drive 'em in MM2 for a long time and now with the available tools to make MM1 to MM2 car conversion possible, I can now finally live the dream!

Anyways, some more MM1 to MM2 car converts:

1986 Toyota Camry (original author Qwerty_86)




1986 Dodge Lancer (original author Qwerty_86)




1989 Buick LeSabre (original author Qwerty_86)




1989 Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight (original author Qwerty_86)




1991 Mercury Sable (original author Qwerty_86)
NOTE: If you're wondering about the headlights, it's because the reflection mod blocked them.




1991 Ford Taurus (original author Qwerty_86)




1991 Ford Taurus Police Cruiser (original author Qwerty_86)
NOTE: There are no damage textures for this car. Since I made the SFPD skin for this car, i'm not too good at making damage textures. Also, this car uses the same dashboard as the civilian version of the 91 Taurus.




I'm about to release these (and the ones stated hereafter) MM1 to MM2 coversions soon, so look out for these. I might upload it to MediaFire.

[sajmon14]

Awesome Will the police Taurus have any other paintjobs?