Vehicles.

[Nutty Brit]

Hey,
I'm not sure if this is in the right place, if not I'm sorry, but what I would like to know is, has anybody come across a tutorial on how to make vehicles for the Sims 3?
I dont want to recolor or anything like that, I want to make a car from scratch.
The reason being there are cars and bikes I like that nobody has created and its hard to find creators who take requests and even harder to find creators who make cars and take requests.
Any help with this would be much appreciated.

[Esmeralda]

I don't think there would be a tutorial specifically on making cars for TS3, but you make and import cars into the game as 'objects', much like furniture or other 'objects', so tutorials on Object Creation will help you get started:

http://www.modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Tutorials:TS3_Basic_Object_Creation
http://www.modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Tutorials:TS3_Extended_Object_Creation

[BloomsBase]

I was thinking about starting a car thread were to share the things people learned sofar.
A car tutorial is a huge ammount of work and creating a car from srcatch even bigger. :)
I like to use TSRW to create my cars.(with the use of s3PE and a RIG plugin)

[Nutty Brit]

I've made normal objects before so I have no problem with that side of things, but vehicles are a whole new thing.
Is there any way to extract the mesh of an existing car/bike and slip in a new one?

[Esmeralda]

I was thinking about starting a car thread were to share the things people learned sofar.
That would be an excellent idea!

I've made normal objects before so I have no problem with that side of things, but vehicles are a whole new thing.
Is there any way to extract the mesh of an existing car/bike and slip in a new one?
Yes, you can, but there are issues to do with the wheels having to be aligned in just the right place or they won't spin or other things go wrong - BloomsBase may be able to advise you on that, as I've never made a vehicle with wheels, and on the few times I've tried, the wheels either didn't spin or the whole mesh turned into one big misshapen spinning mess and went flopping down the road. A dedicated thread for what people have learned about car-making issues would be great.

[BloomsBase]

Vehicles are far from easy and alot of work.
Ill try to update the car thread every few days :)