Since the Bav 325 allows derivatives, I thought I'd work on a Police version of the bimmer
I managed to get the LFS editor to work, not sure what I want the performance to be, I kinda want it to compete with the FZ5 as a cop car,
So far it's heavier, the engine position means it'll be better for PIT maneuver. I've given the engine a bit more power but because of the weight the power-weight is a bit less than FZ, I think that's OK because the weight gives it certain advantages in a chase
The wheels I've made similar to FZ, but 17" instead of 18" diameter, reduces the weight a little and I don't think 18" is needed when the car is stuck to the floor with the additional weight anyway.
It has its own handling characteristics but it feels OK to drive
Just a video of me comparing it to FZ and throwing it around a few corners, it's not as nimble as the fz or quite as fast, but I think it is fun
It was a way harder task to add an obj to the car without replacing the car than it had any right to be, and it lost its colors! Now I have to figure out how to edit them back in...
The model works but has 67443 triangles, whilst the upload limit is 65536... I wanted to add grill lights but I'm out of triangles...
Parts of the car are pretty triangle dense, it might be possible to collapse some of these without much of a noticeable difference in quality, trouble is I can't see any retopo tools within the editor.. will have to have a look
Another trouble I'm having is with the indicators, I had to do something pretty hacky to get blue lights on the lightbar, trouble is it's turned the cars indicators white
I didn't find a way to get the model out. Not wanting to be defeated I've taken to manually deleting chunks of triangles and filling them back in to bring the triangle count down...
Right now I'm at 67201 tris, so I'm like... a 10th of the way there, sore hand from all the clicking... not the most fun way to spend an evening.... Hopefully it'll be worth it
Turns out that due to a bug on LFS website, my mod was saved but not submitted for review.
It's submitted now, hopefully it'll come available on the mods list soon
I'm still working on it, I may change the engine parameters a bit, I did some test laps vs the FZ5 and I think it needs a bit more power.
Tempted to also see if the car body mesh can be raised a bit by default, so that a similar ride height reduction/center of gravity to fz50 can be achieved without the wheels going through the wheel wells
Also todo:
- Make the skins tintable
- Make lightbar optional.
- Fix Minor skin issue at the corners of the car
- Rear license plate should be yellow
Nice to have in the future
- VCU Version
- Amber light option
well done mate cant wait to see it on the server and yh maybe power a bit less than the fz but awesome work nether the less maybe your next car can be a new volvo estate with lightbar