nice image man reminds me of the new bat-mobile! (in the new movies)
as a concept my suggestion would be to beef it up and make it even meaner...at present it looks like a sports car with spiked wheels, but the title 'Road rage' tells me that you're looking for a badass car that butchers the road and everything on it!
so beef it up with more road-shredding (literally) equipment, accessories, and a badass paint job that just screams MURDER!

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I tend to agree. It looks awesome, but it's only really the tyres that look angry. Maybe add a bit of agro to the body as well. The design is great and it's been modeled beautifully and the material are pretty spot on. I'd probably go for a more agressive camera angle, the current one shows it off nicely but I think a lower angle thats shows the car almost intimidating the viewer would suit better.

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Definitely. Also, although it may not particularly fit with the style you were going for, I'd be inclined to make it really grungy and torn if able, its looking very fine though.

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Looking very nice. I agree that it needs some mud splatter. and maybe a front fendor with some gibs maybe...

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This reminds me of a game called Carmageddon.

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man I loved that game.

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haha yea I played it religiously haha.

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anyone ever played Quarantine? you play a taxi driver in a sort of decadent city, and you can arm your cab with all sorts of guns and stuff, to take out who the hell ever you want! the primary objective is to earn money by ...being a cabbie

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I've never played either of those games, I googled some screen shots. Carmageddon looks pretty gruesome..... I'm inspired.
I put the panels in the hood to hide some goodies, I'm bringin em out.

Thanks for the input so far!

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Chris

the car looks great, but i think the overall design of the chassis is a little to rounded, you should probably put some sharper lines, sharp lines look agresive, and a road rage should look agresive, try putting some more details on the chassis, like front bars (don't know the name of it) some lights on the roof, probably get rid of that round window in the back, low the entire car a little down closer to the floor and lean it a little front, and yeah, like said, try a different camera angle.
Anyhow it looks great, good modeling and great pain job

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OK, I beefed it up a bit. I'm working on a grungy paint scheme and some other retractable features, possibly a mini gun or some mysterious unknown weapon.

As far as the body style goes, it IS a bit "rounded" but I'm trying to preserve a 70's "concept" muscle car feel.
I want it to appear somewhat tame when the weapons are retracted.

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Chris

It still looks a bit... tidy? Once you add the grunge it should look awesome though. Can't wait for the animation

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Here are some experiments.
For some reason I'm having problems making the glass look dirty.

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That's rad as hell.

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that's awesome man!

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It would look cool if you used meta particle blobs for some chunky dirt.

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really awesome man good job.

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Nice work. How have you tried to make the glass dirty?

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I used blend with my glass material in slot one and Grey color in the second with a mask I painted over an unwrap.
I was using mental ray but decided to use v-ray instead. I haven't tried using v-ray dirt yet

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Chris

That's probably what I'd do, but it doesn't seem to be having much effect is it? Maybe you should try Tyson's blob idea.

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I finally got to do some more work on this project. I've been going back and forth between trying different materials, particles and animation options.
I think I got the glass material where I want it at last, I think.
The dry lake bed material doesn't really go with the dunes, I'm still working on that.
Among other things, I want to add some chunks to the dust trail and make it more "billowy"

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great job, paint looks really good

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Thats awesome, you're so good with PF. But yit does need bigger chunks from being ripped up by the spikes.

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that car belongs out there man great work!
no showroom displays for this one!

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That's awesome! I want one. I think if you really want your image to be ball bustingly good you'll have to do what varnished said and rip up the dirt a bit. That would top it off nicely.

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Thanks guys, I'm actually struggling with PF. I'm trying to get something like this...
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Chris

That would be awesome. If you're really keen you might want to try afterburn.

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I started learning PF today. I like it already

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It is cool. I sometimes wish it was quicker though. Even relatively simple things can take a long time to update it seems.

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Not as long as RealFlow.

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True, realflow takes some patience, its almost a buddhist meditation. "You dwop a pebble in a pond, you get wipples".

but yeah, I've found that particle flow has the annoying (and probably unavoidable caveat) of having to update every frame from zero after making even a very small change down the line. and sometimes it will calculate over and over again for relatively simple things. If you use the cache operator at the right times it can speed up your workflow but I find that unless I'm fairly confident about what I'm doing it can be quite frustrating waiting for it to finish calculating after every little change. best to work with very few particles (or none) then up them once the effect is coming together.

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Haha, Yeah I've tried Real Flow, With me it was more like, "I dwop the pebble in an with any ruck. I'll onwee have to do it 20 more times to get wipples"

Yeah, PF can be a pain in the butt with how it updates, I was eyballin the cache operator just the other day, I may have to use that at some point.
I'm using After Burn with my PF Source.

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Haha!

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Yep, RF has been going now for 14 hours and I only have about 150 frames. Thats the problem when you turn up the particle resolution. Good thing is its so tolerant to crashes. You just load it up and continue where it left off.

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