Would love to see some ATS five-lug Cookie Cutters.

Great Job.

Just awesome! I just created the vision I had of my car using your program. It was fantastic seeing it rather than imagining it. The only thing it needs to make my vision complete is the M471 black stripes.


My vote is instant Classic. Stickey this thing already.

Thank you
Is that like
M471 Stripes?
From what I have read, those aren't part of the M471 package? Or do you mean the "Carrera" stripe?

I second the nomination for sticky... Where's all the admins?

Exactly like the red Strenger (sp?) GT.

Yellow ones!!

Alright, I kind of needed a break from the grinding, so yellow ATS Cookie Cutters it is.

It's the new 'swatches' interface. I've fixed a bit of weirdness on the 916 gloss bumper where the tailpipe hole is shaved, and also got the regular front spoiler in place. I've really got to get to the front side markers now and the front bumper and pad, at least the early one, and then the late and 916 fronts. Oh, the random licence plate feature is there now. - I've got to make it clear that you can keep hitting that, and also that you can toggle things on and off like the bumper color to go back to chrome, as well as the wheels - you can do it now, but it's just not apparent that hitting it again will toggle the color off. A few more exhaust options to work out, some badges, and the europlate functionality and it'll be pretty complete.

I've been revamping this for some time, and I've finally got around to doing the work to get it to a point worth updating the live version.

The objective was initially to have gone to version 2.0, which would have been using photographs of actual cars in the same light mostly, but plans fell through to get the shots when my video camera (battery) fell through.

So 1.2 is written in a different way that makes the gallery possible. The gallery is just short of functioning currently, as in it doesn't work. - I just need to make a way to get to other 'pages' of cars as only the first 12 are shown. If you hit the "ad to gallery" button, it is creating a txt file on my server space with all the variables saved and I will get it implemented once I have it functioning (crudely ) in a few days.

There are lots of new things, though it is mostly the same.

First, the custom color swatch at the far right. You should be able to get any color you can imagine with the 3 sliders. It works about the same as photoshop's 'hue/saturation". There are a few weird glitches (something to do with dividing by zero?), but it is 99% working so good enough.

The wheels are 'smoothed'. I tried to do all the scaling previousl in photoshop and go crisper in flash, but using smoothing, I can scale the 1 wheel to be both wheels. This makes it look just a tad blurry, but it ends up more realistic, and it's also possible to line things up better, plus less work in implementing that you can now color the outer ring of the wheels, the inner, as well as the spokes- I need to fix this functionality some, I know. Still no Rivs, either.

The best bit may be the tire width and series sliders. The offset sliders are now both in one. Together you can really change the character of the car.

Besides this, minor things, like the exhausts line up for the 2 stock rear valances (though I am thinking that the cutaway stock tailpipe is, in reality further in...). There are also a few new exhausts to play with. A few colors I've updated. I had gone off a page on rennlist, I think it was that had rgb values and I think they were a bit off. I think they are better now. - If you think they are off, let me know, send me a link to a hoto of how it should look more, and I can adjust the values to be more like that- it's a very finite thing adjustment to get the colors...

I will be working on it the next few days, getting the gallery up and running, but in the meantime, the rest of it is working (I think ).

http://www.eggscollective.org/914visualize...alizer_nnn.html

THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK AND TIME THIS THING IS AWESOME!!

and...go figure...I bought a set of Rivieras over the weekend and can't wait to see what they'll look like! No rush though!

Under Decals you have Exxon, but the Pegasus was a Mobil Symbol

I know it is Exxon-Mobil now, but

Ah yeah, you're right. They merged in 1999, but technically it is a 'mobil' pegaus - actually a remnant of magnolia from back in the day, according to wikipedia. But Mobil would be period correct. I will switch that.

FANTASTIC work !!!! What a great contribution to this community you've made.
Thank you for all your hard work.
How about an IMSA front bumper as an option?
And a Porsche rear reflector instead of rear script/badges?
Dino

fantastic indeed - and I laughed out loud to see the jack stands! perfect!
td

I had to look up what that was



Since there's no front view it would be kind of hard to see. Even the front late bumper and 916 one I've left off doing... a lot of it depends on being able to find pics of a car in the right position. I will keep an eye out for some like that.

You would think the porsche lens would be easy but I've tried a few times and have been less than happy with it. I will give it another go, though, as that should be there.

So should this, though.


Some other things I'd like to add are the rear hold downs and also a roll bar/cage option

Nathan -
Thanks so much for putting this together for the community, as it is greatly appreceiated by all of us!

We all understand that a tool of this kind takes a long time to build.

Now that I have suffucintly kissed ass, how hard would it be to add some additional wheels?
Cookie cutters, phone dails, Cup 1's, Cup 2's, HRE's, Champions, etc.???
Not all of us are wanting Fuchs on our cars!

Thanks!

I was thinking that I do want to add these, I don't know what they are called, "Magnalites?" This image would work for wheels. It's best if they're not too glossy to start.


Wheels are one of the hardest things to do, but now easier since I just need to do 1. -For these ones though, I want to make the option to do a mixed look like the original GT cars had.

Can you post pics of the wheels? I'm not sure what Cup wheels look like, or hre's make a few different ones it looks like.

I think I've found them now, hose wheels
cup 1


cup 2


HRE P40's


Seems like they are all like 2 colors max.....

The ones above are not magnalites but ture minilites. - Magnalites are kinda like gurneys? Someone wanted gurneys too, but I don't have a good pic.

Phone Dails...

Great work man!

I love this thing.

John

someone needs to do this

Hmmm, when lifting it up to make a rally car, the missing passenger side rear wheel looks a bit odd ...

Slight glitch if you have widest tires and switch rims. The rims go inboard and the tires stay wide. If you re-adjust the tire width, the rim snaps into place.

How do some of you get the detail? I can see the options but cant add reflector and euro plate etc....

There are some options that are there just to tease you. Mostly they are greyed out when they're not functional. I see the radio but not the label for euro plates is greyed out. I will fix that, well, grey it out for now.

I have been messing with it more, and will update the posted version soon. I've taken care of the wheel jumping glitch, definitely going to get the rear right wheel going.

I've got to implement the selector square thing on some of the miniswatches, I really want side marker option. Front bumper color is starting to seem important, and I want to put that in. Maybe onother set of wheels. I've been working on the gallery and I've just about got that functioning. Hopefully I can "finish" and get a decent version up this weekend.

Great job. Now get to work on a 911 one

A big 'thank you' from this guy too... really helps visualize options when you haven't seen a car that looks exactly like what you want!!

Nathan -
If you, or no one else has a preference on which wheels to add next, please work on the Cup 2's!

Thanks!

Is a 360 viewing option possible?

haha. sorry that's beyond my skill set currently.

That was the "critique" of my designer friends, mocking me for my affinity for rear ends. It would be nice to have at least front and back, but the back lets you see more options is why I started there.

Doing the Cup 2's was a bit of a departure - i couldn't find a good shot with them mounted so I had to mock up the rotor/caliper from a different pic.

I made them a bit larger as they're 17's. Even though the fuchs should be bigger too, being probably 16's, and the same size as the stock 15's, but oh well...

None of the wheels have the centercap there/not there or painted/not painted. That's for another rollout. I'm about to start working on my car again..

So yeah, it is launched

I had made a launch poster a bit ago, a shot of a configurated car, with some new features, but with the gun of a storm trooper mounted to the roll bar as like a cannon. I will have to post it later as I am at work currently.

I got the gallery working, though I am noticing now and will have to fix later that custom secondary colors are not saving and front side markers are not checked initially even though they are there. Also the front bumper color isn't working with the 916 bumper, and the wheel color options should ideally be grey and disabled until a wheel color is picked, and also some separation of the wheel options. .. little things.

I put in a toggle options button for the background feature, so you can move stuff around

Hit "add to gallery" at the bottom and the car will be saved to the gallery, which is cool. -it doesn't save the background image, but everything else... Save as many as you want.
http://www.automobilesreview.com/img/aston...burgring-05.jpg
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All the new changes/additions are great. I just have one question: is there a way to make the rear badge and the engine lid lettering change color independently?

I thought about doing that, since you need to in order to make an LE car properly, I think. I will add that to the list of minor modifications to make.

Hey,
What am I doing wrong. I cannot get the background image to come up without it being washed out and there's a clear portion inside a horizontal bar just above the options.
????
Dino
Here's the link for the background I'm using.
http://oldsheila.files.wordpress.com/2012/...mg_road0001.jpg
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It is a pretty big file, which is ideal but it takes awhile to load. Once it was cached on my machine here it came up quick though - seems to work fine for me. This is with the options toggled off. I'm not sure what you mean be "clear area"?

I'm thinking maybe you have an old version with an output textbox box cached on your machine maybe? Try clearing your cache and reloading it - when the page isn't open. I've redirected the 2 or 3 common previous versions to the current one so I'm pretty sure we're looking at the same thing. - like click on the link in my forum signature and compare the url/address you were looking at?

That is the factory 914_8 I've made there, but with ca plates btw
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Wow, this just gave me new inspiration for getting my car off of jack stands. This is her when she is finished:

Click to view attachmentOk, this is awesome!!
Can someone tell me how you are saving the images and reposting them?

Hey Nathan,

That's exactly what it was. I couldn't clear my cache for some weird reason. I tried deleting cookies, history, caches, everything. Then I tried F5 to reload the page after I clicked your most recent link to the visualizer.

I'm going to remove the targa sail panel vertical trim by painting it red.

THANKS for the Porsche rear reflector.

You're are a terrific guy for doing this for us. If we ever meet, lunch is on me buddy.

All the best.

Dino

Doh, stupid Windows paint cut off the image, but here's my contribution. Very, very cool Nathan. I am extremely impressed with how far its come!

Thom, you can use an image capture program or screen capture then edit it in Microsoft Paint or similar.

Nathan, this is awesome. Thanks again. I like the updates.

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3d -
I was able to save the image in paint, but when I attach the file for my post, it requires the viewer to download or click the file in order to view. Files are saved as bitmaps? My version of paint will not allow me to save the image as a jpg...
Any ideas?

Either upgrade your version of Paint, or download a copy of "irfanview". That's pretty good freeware for looking at and tweaking images.

If you're not on a Windoze box, check out "the GIMP". More complex but richer feature set than most other freeware; it has many photoshop-like features.

--DD

Holy crap...this is exactly what I was looking for. I started in Photoshop doing it manually, but then found this by complete accident.

I'm about a year late to this thread, but I wanted to say "Thank You". WAY easier than how I was doing it before.

Here's where I think I 'm headed...

Dealing with a 911 color today got me to thinking. I don't think I've seen a 914 in Sea green / sea foam green so I took a couple minutes. I dig it. Maybe some inspiration for someone to do something a little different