WIP: Ford Falcon Builder

**EFFalcon** · 02-18-2009, 10:07 PM

I Guess this is somewhat related to here

What i'm out to achieve is to build a web application using Flash that allows people to select parts and build a car.

I'm basing it on the Australian Ford Falcon range and aiming to include:
EA-ED
EF/EL
AU
BA/BF

It may expand from there.

What it will basically allow is for users to select A Base car model, then modify with different wheels/front/side/rear bodykit parts/lights.

Essentially it involves creating each part in a very low poly form and then loading them according to the users preferences.

I've been working on it for a few weeks, and have a lot of the base code complete.
Unfortunately with limitations in Flash the rendering is limited and can cause artifacts, but it should acheive what i want

Demo: Currently only has EF/EL model and limited parts.
Falcon Builder by BoostedFalcon.net

**scooter79rs** · 02-19-2009, 12:46 AM

A zoom function would be good.
Looking good so far, have you thought about posting this at Australian Ford Forums?

**Catlin** · 02-19-2009, 01:40 AM

scooter you can zoom and pan using the mouse scroll

**supremop** · 02-19-2009, 02:10 AM

Nice job man...
It is looking pretty good...
=)

**schaefft** · 02-19-2009, 08:04 AM

Thats one of the coolest things I have ever seen! I really cant wait for more progress, thats really really cool. One of my favorite Australian cars in every version possible and lowpoly

**EFFalcon** · 02-19-2009, 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by scooter79rs

A zoom function would be good.
Looking good so far, have you thought about posting this at Australian Ford Forums?

I would but i'm banned for running a rival site

**scooter79rs** · 02-21-2009, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by EFFalcon

I would but i'm banned for running a rival site

Oh. What site would that be?
I'm a member of Adelaide Cruzin Fords, I've heard about some unfair banning from AFF and MFC. It does seem stupid for banning people just because they are involved with another site.

**EFFalcon** · 02-22-2009, 04:26 PM

basically, i'm part of E-Series Owners Club, AFF screwed us over.
We complained, they booted us from AFF.
We started our own site, and they banned most of the higher profile people on the new site.
i run E-Series Owners Club & Boosted Falcon • E-Series Owners Club & Boosted Falcon

**MrBeam** · 02-22-2009, 08:45 PM

Nice application you've got in progress, EFFalcon.
Make it polished enough and make it open to a few different makes,
I'm sure you could make a few bucks off that in the future.
My Uncle's workshop could benefit from something like this
on their website and come in real handy in the office.

Thanks for showing us your project.

**EFFalcon** · 02-22-2009, 10:35 PM

Thanks, Yeah i'm hoping to get the Ford/Falcon side of it done first.
Its relatively robust enough to just dump correctly formatted 3d parts in it now so updates are easy.

other makes certainly wouldn't be hard to acheive.

**EFFalcon** · 03-05-2009, 06:19 PM

Some updates

Basic EA Model done
Basic BA Model in Progress

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/3794/screen1x.jpg
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/1179/screen2wxq.jpg

**EFFalcon** · 03-11-2009, 07:07 PM

Slowly making more progress.. had to clean up some of the earlier models so i'm slowly getting through that.
also discovering new ways to make them display a little better.
the inbuild renderer seems to perform a limited amount of smoothing to the mesh, or atleast to the rendered material it applies to the models.
By braking up various aspects of the models it helps emphasise details.

added a few more sets of tail lights/headlights etc, trim options and stuff to.
hopefully finish of the actual bodies of the cars soon so i can get stuck into wheels/bodykits

**Unicorn** · 03-12-2009, 05:40 AM

Really nicely executed
I only have a couple polishing suggestions

adding labels to the colour picker, so the user can see which part will change colour.
maybe changing the label on the "height" to "Ride hieght" - and perhaps a "Reset to stock" button.
I would have liked the parts to be populated from the onset, so if possible default all parts to stock.

But as I said its final touch-up stuff.

Are there any metrics involved with the ride height?, what I'm thinking is that there is a max. lowing limit with given wheel sizes (That I'm sure either you or fellow enthusiast can rattle off in your sleep

), if possible make the slider a differnt colour at the threshold or a critical height line or some such.

Just rattling off thoughts. It's going to be really cool to play with when done

**EFFalcon** · 03-12-2009, 05:20 PM

Thanks for the suggestions.
Deffinately stuff i'll look at doing for the final release.

as for the ride heights... i'm pretty much limited it to what i've seen done to the actual cars (give or take)
my actual car (EF) has air bag suspension so i can test the limits of max/min.

I would probably look at having some pre-sets for popular spring sets or something though.

**EFFalcon** · 05-20-2009, 11:05 PM

Put this on hold for a couple of months, but back into it now!

Started doing more on the AU now
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/3623/sketch.jpg

**EFFalcon** · 09-03-2009, 12:19 AM

Little more work done.. slowly making progress!

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/3623/sketch.jpg
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/5931/sketchboa.jpg

**schaefft** · 09-03-2009, 06:42 AM

Awesome, glad this is back!! Its looking pretty good, do you have any link so we can test it? Would love try it out again

EDIT: Found it, really cool, only the smoothing should be fixed.

**tiberius** · 09-04-2009, 08:23 PM

this will be nice to try! if you have it available somewhere.

**schaefft** · 09-05-2009, 08:52 AM

Theres a link in the first post, you can try it there.

**EFFalcon** · 09-06-2009, 06:21 PM

Yep, link in first post.

or here:

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