Hello all,

 

Showing a sneak peak at a new vehicle I'm working on. I've got 90% of it done, ready to release, but I'm missing a couple things.

First, it's going to be a 2014 Ford Taurus Police Interceptor, for the University of Oregon Police Department. However, I can find no good pictures of the rear of the Taurus, to see what lighting they have for sure. I have an idea... but I would like it to be accurate. Here's what I have so far.

Let me know if you have any insight or pictures! I'm not wanting to deviate from the real life counter-part, so no I won't be adding any lights that aren't actually in the vehicle. Thanks.

There's 2 Whelen Avengers (single versions, not dual) in back: Pic

Also lightbar is suppose to have led takedowns in the middle 2 modules, not halogen ones: Pic. Also scale down the lightbar on the Y axis. It might be easier to use EVI's liberty since it's already scaled down and you can easily merge in the led takedowns.

And rotate the POLICE and University of Oregon so it matches the bodylines and looks straight with the car: Pic

3 hours ago, BlackJesus1 said:

There's 2 Whelen Avengers (single versions, not dual) in back: Pic

Also lightbar is suppose to have led takedowns in the middle 2 modules, not halogen ones: Pic. Also scale down the lightbar on the Y axis. It might be easier to use EVI's liberty since it's already scaled down and you can easily merge in the led takedowns.

And rotate the POLICE and University of Oregon so it matches the bodylines and looks straight with the car: Pic

Hmm, thanks for the pics and advice. The takedowns are LED, but this is the Whelen Liberty SX, so the takedowns are separated, not in the middle like the regular Liberty. Never been a huge fan of EVI's Liberty, so I'll probably stick with this one, and just note in the credits that the lightbar version of the Liberty is slightly different. But I really appreciate your insight on the specifics. It took my more time than I care to admit to create the skin, just trying to figure out how I want to create the text edges/lines. I'll fix that in the final version.

Do you know if the Avengers are dual-color? Or single red (left) and blue (right)?

No idea, I would just go single red and blue.

11 hours ago, BlackJesus1 said:

No idea, I would just go single red and blue.

Well, this is what I have so far. Some pretty obvious bugs... But I'll fix those later. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVCrTU4OkU8

Edited November 15, 201510 yr by iRagingNinja