Maluch JBeam rebuild

With seats and doorpanels I think greatest challenge is the color pattern, as I'm not much of an artist, I can't draw at all, but as long as there is premade / configurable material in substance painter that gets close, it is fairly easy to make.

Also handbrake handle and shifter might need some texturing, but shifter knob looks bit different from what I saw in pictures as in pictures it seems to be a ball shape.

And yes, with separate model for carpet, UV and texture making should be somewhat easy, in theory at least!

.Blend file for carpet might work better as .dae is triangulated and seams and sharps if needed are easier to work with quads, but then again with such small piece with low amount of polygons it does not matter too much I guess.

Then actual dashboard might be something that could use improvement in texture, but for that I think highpoly model needs to be created and while it is small piece, my ability to model is kinda limited to square boxy shapes that are very low polygon counts, but I know that padding of dashboard would need to be modeled, then using substance fake leather / vinyl texture would need to be painted and whole thing then needs to be baked, with that it should work out fine.

Although we might have trouble with highpoly model building, but let's see what we can build with these other bits first.

For door cards / panels and seats, I guess similar method of creating all the shapes in 3d model would be needed for best results, with seats there is shape already so those might work out fine, will see
Most basic door panels don't have much shape, so those should work fine with just texturing I believe, looks to me there was about 3 types of door panels, but one type was with quite some variation.

Well, they did made quite lot of variations, so trying to learn what belongs to which version is learning process alone

When UV mapping, I have found out that marking seams is really what makes it work or not, but figuring out where to put those seams is still under learning for me.

 

Blender file sounds good, no hurry, I might be busy until evening or tomorrow now.

I did try something with a seat:


Not sure if it is bit too luxurious though, might need bit more shine so it does not look quite so genuine leather, actual faux leather came out too shiny though, kinda fine outside of car, but inside weird shiny effect happened.


Although now this start to look like Austria export version.
Also I did realize that I used wrong export earlier, there was few changes I forgot that had to be made to get also AO texture map which is kinda nice to have.

Here you can see those red seams for UV mapping, kinda separating to 90 degree viewing angles is what I have found out working ok, after getting seams right, actual UV mapping happens with pretty much single click, but with bad seams or if there is something odd with the mesh only weird UV maps come out:

 

Thank you from those and especially taking time to explain all the variants, that is indeed quite a lot of different ones!

Perhaps .blend file here can encourage someone with 3d modeling skills to join the good cause as definitely hipoly versions of dashboards and some door cards is needed to be able to create texture well.

I can click buttons, drawing is whole another world as is modeling, but I think I can manage with basic colors, not sure about stripes and other patterns, but I see what I can manage with those.

That black leather on pictures seem to be quite reflective, much more than I thought it would be, so I guess faux leather material will work after all.


I'm unable to use new Blender versions, I can find my way around 2.78, but everything since 2.8 gets me staring the screen for eternity without things clicking in my head, however luckily copy paste from newer version to this old works just fine, hopefully newer ones read old version file ok.

With seats there is also one more difference, there is that round plastic stripe between top and bottom halves of fabric, but not with all seats, I guess that was changed at some point of 90's so that earlier ones had that round strip and later ones omitted it.

For colors I think that those basic ones without much of stripes or other patterns could be done with game engine with interior color setting, but also I think that there might be way to have pattern as an overlay/layer so that you could have colorable seat and then pattern on top of that, it would probably be much more manageable than having each color as texture.
However that is area which requires lot of learning.

Anyway I start with the carpet first, time and amount of work relation might mean it takes quite many days to get all these done, especially as I'm at the shore, looking at beautiful ship, trying to figure out how to get to ship as there is lot of sea to cross, that means lot of new stuff need to be learned.

 

I don't think that they ever made this kind, but maybe can have some fantasy versions too?


Creating that is just few clicks, if I just would know software better it could do some really incredible things, but found new buttons again, still long way to go though, but it is incredible what is possible with the rather expensive piece of software, I would say it is less than 10 clicks with a mouse to get that out from the program, no skills needed
There is still some bugs with my setup though, clearly visible at center, not sure if it is uv or just fault with mirroring.

I'm not sure if there is suitable ready to be used materials for all the seat patterns, but if I find suitable ones, then it should work out nicely.

 

looking at this nice carpet makes the rest of the car look meh xD

 

Looks so good !
Do you think you have time to fix other textures as well ?

 

Not sure about that easily part, but I try to fix issue, as that random experiment produced such a nice looking carpet, almost by accident.

There is smart material function in Substance painter, with two clicks you can add smart fill layer and choose material, it is all automatic then, all the wear bits gets calculated automatically, then two clicks to bake maps which then gives you all the wrinkles and after that few clicks to export textures.

In Blender though it has been more than hour of trying to get UV to work, also did some changes to carpet mesh.

I also see there is option to do different kind of UV work directly in Substance painter, but not sure if that works with BeamNG then, but must try that, might give easier time with UV setup.

Even Substance painter costs a lot, I start to think it was worth the cost, I would never be able to do something like this manually with gimp or something.
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There is no darker black than one which sits next to white!

I don't know yet, but I hope that there is time, of course if there is no rush, then I might be able to find time during several months or so.

Also I need to learn more about the program and how to get more out of it and doing Maluch texture as learning project is something I find interesting.

My main project is Cannonball Run map and some undisclosed vehicles, but for those I still need to do same learning, so it is about same to spend time doing learning with Maluch and as it gives fun to people using this mod as well as preservation of history point, for me it makes lot of sense to do as much as I can for this project.

Then there is always something about 70's and 80's vehicles that were not highly rated when new, for some reason I find those more interesting than anything modern

 

Are you planning to make Bosmal cabrio?

 

Did some new wheels for the 126p.

 

After doing most of the colors, I then notice that if need to match real car perfectly, this interior carpet would need much more work, pedals would need to be moved and modeled again, wheel wells need to be made bigger and center tunnel thing would need to be higher and differently shaped, making UV work took many hours and I'm not sure if I should start over and remake whole interior carpet thing to real car shape?

Not sure if that real picture is showing colors quite right, might be oversaturated quite a bit, in some other pics orange is not quite as strong.

Those foot things, sometimes they are separate carpet, sometimes they are sewn into carpet, I think easiest is to have them as their own mesh, so you can then easily swap what you need?

These are colors I have seen for carpet, also there is middle gray that can be used to make any color via color selector which might be better for performance compared to having texture files for all the colors. Anyway I made colors by picking colors from photos and trying to match to general appearance then.

 

the foot 'things' are probably called floor mats?