List of Custom Vehicles

The threads a bit older now, but I jusst discovered it. Thansk. I can make my friend's jealous of the vehicles he and I have on our GPS receivers.

For the Lexus RX300, is it possible to change the color frm gold to black? If so, can somebody pls point me to a page with the how-to? Thanks!

connet divice on to PC go to my computer and open file garmin search for the folder VEHICLES and seved at that file

Do you have the 3D file, or just the SRF for the GPS? If you send me the 3D file, I will try to make the change. If it just the SRF, it can be done in a photo editor like Photoshop, or GIMP, but might not look as nice.

Mike

Just loaded the PNG file into GIMP to take a look, and it looks like it would be a job to do that. What you would probably do is create a mask layer and then mask off the areas you don't want changed (windshield, etc.). Then you can probably play with the Hue/Saturation to change the color of the car. Simply painting over the body of the car would not look good, and adjusting the hue/saturation without masking would change the color of the windshield, tires, etc..

Anyone with better photo-editing skill got an easier way?

BTW: GIMP is an Open-Source (spelled F-R-E-E) graphics program and is VERY powerful. A bit of a learning curve, but there are plenty of tutorials out there.

You'll get much better results from editing the 3D file and changing the texture color.

Mike

posted 10 new vehicles.

looks like Tues. is his posting day!

Thanks, Mike. I really appreciate that, but I don't have the 3D file. I only have the srf file that I picked up from this site. I actually just bought my gps a week ago, so all this srf thing is very new to me. Is there a way to change the color from the srf file?

Thanks again to you and the rest. I truly appreciate it.

Not really. You can convert the SRF to a PNG file which many graphics programs will handle. To do this you can grab the SRFbuilder from my website and use the conversion menu option.

http://sites.google.com/site/raptorbase/

Fortunately, the website posted the PNG file for us as a preview, so we can skip this step. Tonight I'll give the method I suggested yesterday a try...

Mike

i dont know if anyone's mentioned it.. but anyone here know what a jeepney is? i'd be real cool to have one of those on here.

Thanks a lot for the list of customm vehicles. Very hepful and informative resources.
http://www.customwritings.com

I do know what that is.. something like a old jeep from the army, one with a small wheel base, all painted up a lot of colors.. you can find them in the Philippines..

Nice idea!

If you mean a jitney (or gitney), Atlantic City, NJ used to use this manufacturer for shuttling visitors around town. It is a small bus, looks alot like bus used today by Fast-track airport shuttle.

Thanks so much that is really cool of you to post all of those.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeepney
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jeepney.jpg

(most require registration)

daz3d:

http://www.daz3d.com/i.x/3d_models/0/-/

daz3d free model archive:

http://free.daz3d.com/free_weekly/archive_list.php

turbosquid:

http://www.turbosquid.com/

renderosity free stuff:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/index.php?

3d commune free stuff:

http://www.3dcommune.com/?a=freebies

animotions:

http://www.animotions.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=FreeSt...

foundation 3d:

http://www.foundation3d.com/index.php?categoryid=38&p13_sect...

3dm3:

http://www.3dm3.com/modelsbank/

Looking for the right 3D model was a large chunk of the time spent on these things! Great idea posting some of the sites....

Mike

Atlantic City Jitney

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atlantic_City_Jitney_Assoc...

I remember older jitneys while growing up looked a little like a bus-taxi. Although they didn't have burlap hanging off the sides or chickens in the luggage rack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BushTaxi.JPG

Anyone seen one of these in SRF format or in one of the 3D repositories? I did find some 3D models for sale, but I'm not that desperate.

Simon

on Tony's vehicleforgarminnuvi site

Has anyone found any Lotus Elise icons? Racing Green (the metallic green) would be great!

LINK from The Legend of Zelda needs to be here!!!!

I already have his fairy friend "NAVI" doing the voice alerts for red light and speed traps.

he's posted 12 more vehicles (6 motorcylces / 6 cars)

Tony's posted 13 more ...

3 new trucks

1 champagne bottle (to celebrate 100 vehicles!)

9 in movie cat. (WALL-E, Back to the Future, A-Team van, and more)

Thanks

im waiting on OPTIMUS PRIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am looking for some different colored arrows like those that are shown in the jpeg file at the beginning of this thread, but I have not found a link to where they are available.

Thanks for your help.

They are in the update program. Use Web updater and you will find them in there.

Tony's site has excellent views of the vehicles (better than Garmin Garage) and he has done so many that I have not included them in the large jpeg of all the available icons. All those vehicles in that jpeg were taken right off the nuvi itself from the picture capture. Garmin Garage tends to "dress up" the vehicles on their web page so it is not the actual view but there are a lot for me to update right now. I think it has been since about Halloween when I last updated Garmins Garage ones.

Tony, a special thanks to your well thought out webpage to display your self created icons. The Wall-E one came out really good. Keep up the good work. It's appreciated. Just a thought, next time you create a car, make the blinker brighter ever other picture when view left/right, and it will look like when you turn that the blinker is on either left or right.

Thanks, Paul

If you mean the Garmin Webupdater it doesn't do anything for me except check for updates and update voices. If you mean they are in the Garmin Garage, I don't find anything except the 3D arrow that came with the unit.

Anyone?

Try http://www8.garmin.com/vehicles/

The multi colored arrows are in the webupdater program. After it does the update there is a spot to click for additional updates and they are in there.

You can try this link too:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070320163438/www.garmin.com/veh...

My updater doesn't show anything but a monster blue truck. That's not my thing. Your last link gave me what I wanted!

Thanks a bunch.

the customs are still going. I completely forgot about the custom icos when I got a newer garmin.

Garmin has posted a new vehicle in the Garmin Garage ... first new one is quite awhile!

thanks!

You're welcome, I'm glad you find useful the page there are lots of visits so I'll do my best to keep it up with it.

For the blinkers I thought about that but you know the nuvis make such a little use of the animation of the turns that I focus in finding good vehicles to post for now. What I think could be possible is animated icons for the xx5 series but I have to find some time to play around with that.

And where is djs? There are 9 more vehicles...

Tony.-

3 Cheers for your continued efforts. As you said, lots of folks pay a visit....

Has anyone seen an MG or RX-4 srf file (or might consider making one...)

vehiclesforgarminnuvi.com has become one of my favorite sites. Thank you Tony. Btw, bright colors (McLaren F1, Mercedes Benz CLK-GTR, Eve) look better on my Nuvi. Dark ones (Bugatti Veyron, Wall-E) look nice on your site but difficult to see on the GPS, even when brightness is set to 100%. Maybe it's just my deteriorating vision.

sorry Tony ... been busy with work! I did see your new vehicles. Just hadn't had a chance to notify the POI Factory family yet.

Besides ... they should know by now that you're like clockwork - every Tues. = new vehicles!

I have been searching for a source for Z3 vehicle icons for my Garmin. The ecarter site no longer works. Does anyone have a black/black Z3 vehicle srf file available?
Thanks,
-Herschel

Tony has added 12 more :

2 Batmobiles, 1 StarWars, 3 Stock, 3 Classics and 3 SUVs

Great job Tony. Don't know how you crank them out so fast. Thanks!

Tony, great work on all the new vehicles!!! I would like to request a new one, however the "feedback" button on your site doesn't seem to be working for me.....it doesn't have your email address. I'd love for you to make a blue 2008 Volkswagen R32!

Thanks for the great sites

12 more posted by Tony (all racing related)

Weekend Warrior - a ride on mower

Windsor - a necktie

I would really like to see a 77 Trans Am added to the list!

Hi there.
I hope anybody can help me, because GARMIN can't!???
I've get an Nüvi 250. When i copy the srf-files to the Garmin\vehicle folder on my Garmin (the device not the SD-Card) and then i start my Garmin to set it up for the custom vehicle icon, the message is shown that i can go to the website of garmin to download custom icons...?! what i'm doing wrong?! also the help-files are on the device, but over the device i get the message, that here are no entries?!
please help me, thanks
tom