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There are a couple of freebie cars, admittedly higher end, at Rendo by R Publishing - 2008 Audi A4, 2009 Honda CR-V, 2007 Merc G class, 2009 VW Sirocco & 2008 BMW M3. They're in 3ds format, but I managed to get the Audi into DS - scale is not easy.
There's a freebie Fiat 126 there from Dry Jack.
Lucian Lilippe did an obj bumblebee 2CV6 over at Rendo too. SmidA did a Statler 1.2 in May 2021.
All moderately normal cars.
Regards,
Richard
OK, look, I know that Doc Hudson is a Hudson Hornet and not a Mercury, but looking at the Mercury Coupe on its store page, Doc Hudson is all I can see. I urgently need someone to surface a pair of giant eyes onto the windshield (and thus perhaps go for the DOUBLE editorial license).
yeah, it would be nice to have real affordable cars models ... like your normal, ford, chevy, dodge, etc etc. Most are the rich man's cars, fancy sport cars, etc. Also regular delivery trucks, vans, etc. maybe aged from the early 2000s and up.
There's this;
https://www.daz3d.com/zirael-flyte-hatchback-family-car
Renderosity has some and there's a creator at Renderhub that does really good ones.
Yeah, I'm not sure who covers that territory other than Predatron. I'm still getting all my mileage there from two kits of his, one of which is a bona fide antique--his Step Van. I also use his Light Truck which is somewhat more recent. I haven't found anything else that really does what those two kits do. On the other hand, they still do the job well, and after all, there aren't all that many shapes of light truck/van around.
I thought the same thing... but I waited all day and it never went to 0 in my cart... even after refreshing the page... etc... Nada... so I got the shaders instead so I didn't loose out. Today I got shaders as a free item... but opted to buy Flavia for 2.99 instead :) She's so pretty.
ooo thanks for headzzzzzzzzzz up... I'm glad I didn't buy it... I have enough cars in my runtime :)
I had never seen this and had to go find it immediately.
Beautiful. Magical. This is going on my wishlist at once.
Hubby used to make his own bullets... He got lead from fishing lures FREE in Lake Erie when he went fishing... or just beach combing... But I must admit he had to purchase shells and gunpowder... so you are right... Probably not feasable in an apocolyps situation.
+1... could use "normal" cars in my runtime.
I'm with you... wouldn't be caught dead in a sexy outfit... I'd be too worried about keeping warm in Ohio... burrrrrrrrrr... Winter is almost here and I'm freezing already! lol
ooo I forgot I had that car... Well done artwork Elor.. thanks for sharing. :)
there are some pretty nice cars. I checked a bunch of sites but pricing is way over what I can pay. free is great.
There are quite a lot of free cars out there, for example google for a site called dmi car 3d.
However they are not going to be in poser or DS format, more likely 3ds, obj or others. The other problems is most are based on real car models, so will likely suffer from similar usage restrictions as the EL here. The good news is that many of them are "normal" cars, not just sports cars or scifi cars which are most of what is available here.
Definitely easy enough to cast your own bullets with scrap lead. Just add some sort of catchment device and the shells/casings could be reused, and it's actually quite easy to make your own black powder (yes, not ideal for power or in a machine gun, but hey, it's post apocalypse, so you have to make due)
To be fair to the PA, the satellite dish obviously isn't being used as a satellite dish since it has a harpoon like device coming out of it. The gun is actually a machine gun and not a Gatlin gun, though a Gatlin gun would make more sense with black powder. A machine gun would foul pretty quickly, but the brass (shells) are really tarnished like it had been used with black powder, and the condition of the gun makes the probability of it firing reliably in full auto pretty doubtful, but again is post apocalypse, so you use what it available.
I actually kinda like it. Would definitely grab it if I did post apocalyptic type renders. Hmmmm, now to think about how I could use it. Off to check the library for possible environment and clothes.
https://www.daz3d.com/hs-mirage-strands-hair-for-genesis-9-8-and-81-male
Anybody willing to show how this hair looks without the headband? Thx!
Beat me to it. I was going to ask that.
improvised weapons are probably more realistic, when I was a teen a neighbour made a rocket launcher with a PVC pipe, fertilizer and diesel
the good old days before terrorism when such things were just considered a bit dangerous for possibly hurting yourself not something that would get you arrested
Thank you all for the good advice! I'm going to search more intensively for good contemporary car models. I might get gcjellyfish's family car today; it's on the sale list and looks very good.
I was meaning the side mounted gun in the rear right wing. There is little else that looks quite so much like a gattling as that weapon:
I agree the roof mounted weapon is a machine gun
Regards,
Richard
Sorry for the misunderstanding
, Llola, but I forgot to properly credits the picture: it's not one of my renders, it's one of @gcjellyfish owns, used on the product page.
It looks ok but not amazing without the headband (by setting opacity of headband surface, there's no parameter/material setting) - can probably improve the hairline with some tweaking of the adjustments, but it's another hair with no morphs. Will see how it goes manually applying dforce, but otherwise might end up returning it. I do like it with the headband though.
I believe Stonemason's Urban Sprawl 3 has a couple of low res vehicles. They are not available as props but if you load the scene you can find and separate them. It's a great product, well worth picking up, especially on sale.
Edit: I just looked, and the vehicles are available as props. Two buses, a delivery truck and a police car. The last one could be re-shaded for a coupe.
Urban Sprawl 2 have a couple too, but I don't have that one.
there is no shortage of third party cars around both paid and free
some are obj or need to be exported from something like Unreal Engine
(I have enough from there picked up in sales or free for the month alone to populate every street and they are licensed as 3D game assets too!)
if DAZ are uninterested in marketing cars for use in renders plenty of other places step up
not gonna lie, ones rigged for use in DAZ studio are preferable and I would buy them over a fleet of Unreal assets but if I cannot use them, well ...
ah.. kk.. Thanks for sharing it :) I approve.
So sorry, I completely missed it!! That's what I get for looking at it on a tablet.
It's definitely not a great location for a Gatlin gun (could be a mini gun, but that would definitely eat up a lot of ammunition really quickly, and would not work well, if at all, with black powder). But on the plus side the shells would be contained in the vehicle so that would be a plus for possible reloading. Since the first Gatlin guns made were for black powder, it's resonable to think this one could be operated with "home made" black powder.
The biggest downside to the black powder theory would be the production of primers. I'm not really sure how that could be done (but I'm sure someone more ingenious than I am could figure out something). Maybe they took over a primer warehouse os no primer production is needed. Maybe they took over a storage facility with thousands of rounds for both guns? Regardless, it's definitely no worse than any of the transgressions on reality that Hollywood makes almost daily
LOL!!! The big downside to black powder would be it likes to go boom with just a bit of static electricity
There were already percussion caps at the time the fully functioning Gatling gun came out at the beginning of the 1860s. At that time they were filled with black-powered paper cartridges and primed with a percussion cap because brass casings were not fully available yet. It was only a short period before they became available in mass production and then implemented into the daily use of it