- KingAndy
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I don't understand why nowadays I see people who don't waste one or two more days to create a dashboard for their car convertions. It's not that hard to create and the 1st person view is on of the coolest things in a racing game. Addon cars just to take screenshots are not really cool to play, right...
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It's 2015, the community no longer has the spirit it used to. Generic supercars with copy/paste tuning and sounds is about as good as it will get for the most part, and anyone who still plays MM2 is lucky to have even those.
See if you can find some old websites with relics from over 10 years ago. They used to make some very creative cars and tracks back in those days. When I was younger, MM2 was also a game about flying airplanes around an alien invaded SF, or driving robots over ramps in one of the many stunt versions of city.psdl. They may not have been of the same level of quality as the best addons we have today, but there's an undenyable sense of pride and effort in some of them.
I actually still have every one of the things I used to have somewhere on my PC, and sometimes go back and play them again for the sheer nostalgia factor.
See if you can find some old websites with relics from over 10 years ago. They used to make some very creative cars and tracks back in those days. When I was younger, MM2 was also a game about flying airplanes around an alien invaded SF, or driving robots over ramps in one of the many stunt versions of city.psdl. They may not have been of the same level of quality as the best addons we have today, but there's an undenyable sense of pride and effort in some of them.
I actually still have every one of the things I used to have somewhere on my PC, and sometimes go back and play them again for the sheer nostalgia factor.
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Speaking as one of those modders who don't make dashboards, I don't make them because I think they're pretty useless in this game. Even dashboards of the highest quality, which are based on pictures of the actual 3D interior, end up looking 2D with bad resolution. You may as well make a cardboard cutout of a dashboard and fixate it to your screen, because that's essentially what dashboards are in this game.
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Make dashboards isn't that much easy as it may look for some. There's a good tutorial available which should bring people into it, but evidently in few really care about dashboards. The harder part in its making steps there can well be from the beginning, with finding a proper photo or high quality 3D interiors from where make the textures.
Then, it's not worth and good provide and invented dashboard to a real existing car which has its own dashboard.
Let's say that all these cars conversions still released in the latest years, with or without a dashboard, are a good way to keep alive the community and have some activity due to the people that at least follow and check the website for the new releases. It kinda works, also considering those who gives indirect proofs of this by submitting screenshots showing the newest released downloads.
Then, it's not worth and good provide and invented dashboard to a real existing car which has its own dashboard.
That spirit is getting lost since 2012, after great years like 2009 and 2010 with a general boost of interest in make, download and play add-on cars.It's 2015, the community no longer has the spirit it used to. Generic supercars with copy/paste tuning and sounds is about as good as it will get for the most part, and anyone who still plays MM2 is lucky to have even those.
Let's say that all these cars conversions still released in the latest years, with or without a dashboard, are a good way to keep alive the community and have some activity due to the people that at least follow and check the website for the new releases. It kinda works, also considering those who gives indirect proofs of this by submitting screenshots showing the newest released downloads.
In MM1 and MM2 dashboards always work in 2D, also those very few ones that use 3D models. The quality issue is mainly caused by the game graphic in 16 bit color and by the presence of the alpha channel, which always decreases the texture look creating a sort of posterize effect.Even dashboards of the highest quality, which are based on pictures of the actual 3D interior, end up looking 2D with bad resolution.
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- BUGATTIMAN253MPH
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I don't make dashes because I'm so bad at photoshopping photoreal dashes, I usually find 3-D model dashes turn out terrible, with 16-bit color on top of that it looks crap in game, I don't use anti-aliasing with the 3-D dashes so the edges look all jagged in the game, when I used an anti-alias plugin in Paint.NET it didn't look any better.
I honestly go with Stan's suggestion that dashes always turn out badly in the game and obstruct most of your view.
I honestly go with Stan's suggestion that dashes always turn out badly in the game and obstruct most of your view.
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The dashes from GT2 Racing are good to use because the textures for the dash model are photo-real, that's how I made the dash for my Aventador.
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There is a NFS High Stakes Hot Pursuit Corvette with the original 3D interior. That would be cool if we made 3D dashboards...
I saw a 1969 Dodge Charger with the vpbullitt dash, but redesigned differently. Tell me, would it make more sense to make a new dash based on the height of the old dashes, or tweak it so that the dash look a little like the real thing?
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I saw a 1969 Dodge Charger with the vpbullitt dash, but redesigned differently. Tell me, would it make more sense to make a new dash based on the height of the old dashes, or tweak it so that the dash look a little like the real thing?
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I don't make dashboards anymore because they always look bad in MM2 because of the 16-bit colour format. Only the photo-real dashes look good because they have tons of shading on them.
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This really stinks. If anyone remembers NFS High Stales, the game had 3D dashboards. Taxi-Man or someone converted a whole corvette police car- yes- including the front half of the dash. It looked really great.
I'll see if I can make a dash tho- wonder how hard can it be?
The charger looks easy, tons of pics with repo and nos parts.
I'll see if I can make a dash tho- wonder how hard can it be?
The charger looks easy, tons of pics with repo and nos parts.