Some new vehicles....

a preview page?

I'll be interested in the gt500 - plan to put it on my son's gpsr

Thanks for the Bell 222!

The Cobra is cool! Thanks.

Thank you!

The Shelby Cobra is my favorite car of all time. Coincidentally, I was driving behind an original one last Sunday. Almost caused a wreck by watching the car - not the road!!
Bob

yw... glad to contribute.

BTW: If anyone can find a 3DS Max file for the Shelby GT500E 'Eleanor', I'll be happy to convert that too.. Actually I'm looking for the Astin-Martin Vanquish too....

ABTW: Just posted the Star Wars Snowspeeder....

Mike

Thank you...

of a motor coach like a Prevost or a Van Hool?

Ok, I think I finally have my conversion software
running, so I fixed up the older versions of the GT500, the 'Airwolf' and the snowspeeder and added a few more.

67ShelbyGT500 - Couldn't find an Eleanor for 3DS Max, so iI used this brown GT500

Airwolf - Bell 222 from the show 'Airwolf' - guns and all. I have enlarged this one a little from the previous version

Corvette Z06 - Yellow Corvette Z06

MustangVert - 1996-1998 Blue Mustang convertible with roll bar

Snow Speeder - A ship from "Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back"

I am hoping to release the application soon, maybe tonight. It will take 36 400x400 bitmaps of the car in 3D, and 36 350x350 bitmaps of the ar from the top, and add an alpha layer to give it transparency, then resize it to 2880 x 150 to be converted to .SRF

Enjoy!
Mike

Hopefully have an Aston Martin Vanquish tonight
Still looking for a GT500E Eleanor

Thanks for the link!

Panache: email me-> mowry@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu

OK.. I updated the Shelby Cobra and I think it looks MUCH better. This new app is really making the models look decent, so I'll get it up soon for all to use...

Edit: Oh Yeah... I added the Millenium Falcon, too...

Edit #2: I'll try to get a preview file up sometime too
Mike

...thanks for the vehicles.

omg airwolf! that is awesome

I was using the learjet from garmin.com but I think I'll switch to this one!

Glad you like them!

I will try to post a preview JPG on the site in the next few days.

Could you make a green 97 Z28 Camaro? I have a Z28 and love to have one for my GPS symbol. Looked all over the internet for one and cannot find one.

While we are at it, can I put in a request for a blue Acura TSX

is there any way to make the airwolf model bigger? it's so small on my screen compared with the learjet, can barely see it. thanks.

I'd love to have the time to do requests, but I just don't. I had a couple of free nights here with my family out of town to make the ones I did, but my wife and daughter have to come first in my life, and working these files through Blender/3DS Max can take a lot of time if they need fixing, or converting. It can even be difficult just to FIND the models for free.

If you can get someone to work up the bitmap files
for me, I'd be happy to finalize them and get them to you. In most cases, this finalization process is pretty quick now with the app I wrote.

A) Find the 3D model on the internet, and use Blender (free 3D program), or 3DS MAX, or some other 3D program to output the following:
1) 36 shots from above and behind with the car rotated from 0degrees to 350deg in steps of 10deg . These shots should be 400x400 pixels and should use a color for the background that is unique and can be keyed out as transprent. I used green (0,255,0) which worked for most of the models because they didn't have much green in them. This color is also the only color my app will use at the moment besides blue (0,0,255) and Red (255,0,0)

2) 36 shots from directly above with the car rotated from 0degrees to 350deg in steps of 10deg . These shots should be 350x350 pixels and should use the same background color as the above pics.

I can probably write up a quick tutorial on how to do this if people want it

Again, I'm really sorry that I don't have time to do requests. I hope you understand...

Mike

that's ok.. thanks for your time! I like the model, I have a feeling it works better on a non-widescreen though

Hi Mike,

I moved you over to the "List of Custom Vehicles" page and included the pictures. If you post them over there, it would be easier to have one parking garage

Thanks for making these. They look good.

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/12267

Paul

thanks for the link

Cool... thanx Paul! I have two more coming that I forgot to post: Flintsones mobile, and the Mystery Machine. What should I do with them?

Mike

my kids will love you!!

my youngest is a ScoobyDoo freak!!!

Can't wait for these.

Thanks Mike!

Of course, we all understand. I have great admiration for you techies who are able to do all this. It is amazing to my that you can come up with all of these programs. Thank you.

The Mystery Machine from Scooby Doo, and the Flintstones car are up on my Google site...

Enjoy!

BTW Bob... The Shelby Cobra WAS my favorite car until Gone in 60 Seconds introduced me to the Shelby GT-500E.. :Drool:

I found a better method of resampling for my app, so I updated all my vehicles, and they look better, not as blocky.

I will try to have a new version of the app up soon with the new sampling, AND I it will save straight to an SRF file now!!!

Note: preview page is next!

Mike

Thanks for this link!

Thanks for the work! It's a great bonus for we non-techies.

Thanks!!! This is some cool stuff.

It is nice to have options... and fun options at that!!!

Cheers,
Ronnie

thanks for the gt, i love it

I can't open them. Can somebody point me in the right direction?

I can now cruise around in the Falcon! Great job!

If it works like my 755T I copied them to \Nuvi\Garmin\Vehicles.

Hope that this helps

While I decided to check out the moved link, it led me to the SMART cars---I love them! But, it was Mike's original post and work that got me that as well as a couple of his. Thanks again!

Thanks for the new vehicles

In my time on the net, I've used SOOO much of the info and free software that people have offered up and it's saved me BOATLOADS of money. I'm just happy I can finally pay it forward

And as always, figuring all this out would have taken me a LOT longer, if not for Aarrgghh's original work.... Thanx Aarrgghh!

Thank you for the ZO6/Cobra...very nice...