Fun with vectors!
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 11:05 am
Hehe.. i got a bit bored waiting on the phone to talk to the couriers... so I vectorised an old front shot of my car (for want of a decent side one). Easy Mk3 modding with the click of a mouse!
(these are PNGs... anyone wants the original PSP vector files, or a Photoshop/WMF conversion, to play with, just changing colours or moving things around, give a buzz. These are supposedly with a transparent background, but it will only work right in netscape or opera - it looks gash in IE.... and i should know
but at least its a small filesize with zero distortion)
The basic Mk3, minus blemishes of age (and, oops, the vent grilles under the wipers), and plus aftermarket generic fogs. Unfortunately not minus wobbly, grotty standard seats!
Dropped, wider tyres (alloys, but you cant see that
), clear and slight tinted indicators, half body colour bumper and silver strip, modest brows. The sports seats are yet to go in, as is the anti glare sunstrip on the screen (cant figure out how to draw the seats, and i was lazy as regards the strip)
Inspired by GT3, the TVR Tuscan...... orange and purple flip paint... think it looks a little limp wristed like this though!
mmm, that's more like it - again the Tuscan, but the Speed 12. Dark aqua green and deep purple, sweet (but expensive i bet)... again hasnt come out quite as expected, but it'll do.
(actually in both cases there's an intermediate colour missing - burnt sienna and navy blue respectively - but i'm not quite up to speed with gradient fills in more than 2 colours yet, so it just has to go through a kind of grey instead)
(these are PNGs... anyone wants the original PSP vector files, or a Photoshop/WMF conversion, to play with, just changing colours or moving things around, give a buzz. These are supposedly with a transparent background, but it will only work right in netscape or opera - it looks gash in IE.... and i should know
but at least its a small filesize with zero distortion)The basic Mk3, minus blemishes of age (and, oops, the vent grilles under the wipers
), and plus aftermarket generic fogs. Unfortunately not minus wobbly, grotty standard seats!Dropped, wider tyres (alloys, but you cant see that
), clear and slight tinted indicators, half body colour bumper and silver strip, modest brows. The sports seats are yet to go in, as is the anti glare sunstrip on the screen (cant figure out how to draw the seats, and i was lazy as regards the strip)Inspired by GT3, the TVR Tuscan...... orange and purple flip paint
... think it looks a little limp wristed like this though!mmm, that's more like it - again the Tuscan, but the Speed 12. Dark aqua green and deep purple, sweet (but expensive i bet)... again hasnt come out quite as expected, but it'll do.
(actually in both cases there's an intermediate colour missing - burnt sienna and navy blue respectively - but i'm not quite up to speed with gradient fills in more than 2 colours yet, so it just has to go through a kind of grey instead)
)
) and then sitting in a 12mph queue of traffic for a quarter hour. Twice. Made it in 2h 40m though, so had just enough time to get changed and shave on-site 
I'm quite impressed at myself (i know, pride is a sin and all that) at cropping to exactly how much is needed without shrinking the stuff too much, and removing all the 'dead' frames...
think of it as some kind of stupid birthday present even though i dont even know if you have one let alone when. it allowed me to geek out into the computer/anime side for a while instead of the car one 