certified bruh moment.

...like seriously, how many times i have now retired either from gta modding or this blog as a whole and yet i allways end up coming back lmao...

but anyway hi, its been a while. yeah, i guess im back for time being, how long it will last this time, well see hahaha. what i was up to since the last time i dont hear you ask, well, i bought and sold more irl cars than an average person in theyr life owned, and also i finally, after like 13 years got a new computer.

for the past half year or so i have been playing and modding gta quite alot again, by the way, i never deleted my game, i still use the same modded gta i use for like 8 years now, just changed some stuff here and there. the new pc is one of main causes of it actually, the old one could barely handle a modded SA at this point, now the game plays so smooth that i actually have to use frame limiter, and it also looks better than ever before, as after all these years, antialiasing finally works propertly haha.

now about why i even decided to restart the blog when im well avare that basically noone cares about them anymore. well you see, i actually use the blog quite a bit. I still have about every mod i ever done, but when we talk modding and stuff on discord or something, and i want to use some of my older work as a refference, its much easyer to go to the blog and find the picture here, rather than digging trough hundreds of rars to find it lmao. basically you could say i have been using the blog as a database of my work of somesorts i guess. i also noticed whenever i post something gta related on the INSTAGRAM, theres allways more visitors on the blog too, so i guess someone actually still cares about this place, maybe, lmao.

...and honestly, it kinda feels weird to not post the new stuff here too, guess im abit too oldschool about that really lol.

i will still be prioritizing the INSTAGRAM (wow, second ig plug in one post, nice) to post the new stuff, it might take a while before it appears here too lel.

so yeah, i will be catching up and posting the new stuff i done in the past half year in the following days...weeks...months...you know how it goes with me lol, but it will show up here eventually. if you follow me on the INSTAGRAM (3rd time, even nicer) you already seen it all, but as i mentioned, i just want to have it all in one place lel.

also i think for the future, im just not going to announce i quit or whatever, and just dissapear into the void like everyone else, so i dont look like an idiot when i randomly come back after years lmfao.

aaaand also jesus fuck, this was supposed to be a quick "hey im back" post, not another book lenght piece of text, some things really never change lol.

so yeah, see you (hopefully) soon with something new ;).

 

PS: the pic below the text is from SA, and shows one of new things to come, haha.

 

i think this is it...

hey, its been a while, again...

theres something i have on my mind for a while now. this might really be a last post on this blog.

i know i know, i announced i quit several times already and allways ended up coming back, but this time its different. this time i dont quit with 3d as a whole, as i still enjoy it ocasionally, this time i think its time to quit posting here and move on elsewhere.

you see, there were times when i finished a mod and i was just itching to post about it here, but that feeling is gone for a few years now...now i post there more or less only because it allways was like this, honestly i dont really even enjoy it anymore...good example of that is the wr2 convert of tuned levin you see under this text, i finished that convert over 8 months ago and i still didnt felt like posting about it here...if someone wonder, this is that "one more thing to post about" i mentioned in last post...

i know why is that. lets face the facts. mod blogs are dead. have a look into the blog roll for example. blogs that once used to be very active are now dead for years, shoutboxes is dead, noone cares about blogs anymore. its sad, but that how it is...

i simply came to conclusion that its pointless to keep posting anything here, since noone cares, even me by now.

it also feels like over the years, i made this blog too restricted to be around modding, even tho i like to post my real life stuff aswell, i just never really felt like this is a right place to post that stuff here...ofcourse i could change that, but theres no point in that now anyway.

now, i sayd that id like to move elsewhere. but where? thats pretty easy. instagram.

i have my instagram profile for a few years now, i post pretty much anything from my modding to real life stuff there, and i enjoy it alot. about same like i used to enjoy post here. instagram just replaced this place for me completely by now.

so, if you want to keep following what im up to, i invite you to check MY INSTAGRAM PROFILE ;).

now, what about this blog? even tho this is probably last post ever, i going to keep it up and running. after all, its over 10 years of my life, it feels too nostalgic to just delete it...and who knows, maybe one time i will feel like posting something here again...but at this point, i seriously doubt it.

and thats it. id like to thank all of you for reading my blog over the years, id never thought it will last this long, but everything gotta end one day. thank you very much, and i will hopefully see you at instagram ;).

good bye ;). 

EDIT 2.11.2020: i guess not then, lmfao

ae86 levin...tuned.

oh hey, so after many months since i finished this one i finally got myself to post about the tuned version of the levin i mentioned in the previous 2 posts lmao...

as i mentioned in the stock levin v3 post, i originally wanted to just make a tuned version based on v2, infact i actually did, but once i realised how bad the v2 is, i deleted it, did the v3 and did pretty much exact same thing based on the v3 lel.

i wanted to make something simple again, a rather street car with 90s vibe to it. so whats different from stock version:

exterior:

-aero parts, oem lip, oem sideskirts, ductail spoiler
-FET foglights
-oem grille with gold stripes
-some stickers here and there
-the car doesnt use carcol anymore, its allways white/black now
-tom's igeta wheels by me

interior:

-recaro sr3 from SURGE, but slightly edited, completely retextured, the pattern they have is one of actual sr3 patterns
-nardi steering wheel originally from original rfactor levin that i remodeled for my tuned onevia. this time it have a silver spokes tho
-pioneer ts-x7 speakers by me at the parcelshelf
-oem digital gauges
-some small stuff, ultranorsk at the mirror, cocacola can in a holder, cigarretes in the centre console

engine:

-tuned 4a-ge, its an original engine model from the rfactor levin, but reworked abit

and thats pretty much all, as i sayd, i wanted to make something simplyer again, and i think it ended up pretty well, im pretty happy about the result :D.

and so, thats all for now. i still have one more thing to post, something closely related to this levin, so see you (hopefully) soon :).

tom's igeta

hey, so after a long, long while i made another aftermarket wheel from scratch :D. well actually i did it over 8 months ago, after i finished the levin from the last post lol, but just like with the levin, i just didnt got myself to post about it lmao...

i know there are some igeta models already, but i didnt found this exact type, even tho i feel like its the most usual one...i wanted to use this type for the tuned levin based on the new model, so i had to do it myself lel. credit goes to SURGE, from wich i used the brake rotor and centre nut, but with slight edit by me.

so that would be all for now, next post will finally be the tuned version of the levin, so see you again soon ;).

toyota ae86 levin...v3.

ah yeah...me and ae86 levin...it all started by trd levin convert nearly 8 years ago...shortly after i made a first stock version out of it, but it was pretty terrible...about 4 years ago i made a second version, wich i considered to be pretty good...untill i wanted to make another tuned version based on it, lol...i figured out this thing needs a complete makeover...

...and here it is.

anyway hi, its been a while, how are you guys been? im still relatively active in modding, tho i still do stuff mostly for stuner atm...truth is, i made the v3 nearly half year ago, shortly after i finished the new hakone, lol...if you follow my instagram (where im way more active than here lmao), you might remember i posted some wip shots of it back then...but i never got to post about fully finished one untill now lmao...

so yeah, i was working on a tuned one, but more i worked on it, the more i figured out the v2 is pretty bad...weird mix of zenki and kouki, with tuned rear bumper, on a stock car, lol...so i scrapped the tuned one i was working on and decided its time to do the stock one propertly first. i was thinking if to make a zenki or kouki out of it, and i decided to go with zenki...in the end it would probably be easyer if i would go with kouki, but oh well lmao, id say i like the zenki more anyway...im not really going to write a full list of changes like i used to do this time, not only it would be super long, but also after that half year, i barely remember it too lmao...but here goes slightly shorter version lel:

-completely reworked exterior to make it zenki with everything that zenki i supposed to have, from the taillights to the headlights and everything between. i was using brochures as a reference, i also made some missing details, such as fuel cap and rear wiper and fixed a bunch of bugs...at the v2, the front rotating grile was actually openable, with the lights turned on...i decided to remove this during remodelling the grille, as it wasnt too realistic anyway

-completely reworked interior, its still the interior originally from GTAPEX's ae86 for racer, it was an kouki interior tho. i have reworked it completely to the zenki, from the interior tint, gauges, to the front seats...i also fixed a bunch of bugs there, modelled rear seats wich were completely missing and also made a whole new doorwells or how you call it...you know, these things you see when you open the doors

-reworked engine, the v2 had mostly untouched tuned engine from the original model, in v3 case, the engine bay is still the original one out of racer, but reworked, and the engine itself is an stock 4a-ge out of some nfs model, wich needed a bunch of fixings too

-reworked wheels, its still the wheels that we did with FLASH for our corona t14, but they had a wayy too big concave and few bugs so i reworked and fixed that, i also made a new texture for them as there was a pretty big uv map error on them...

-reworked car colors, already the v2 had a mix of panda and simple colors, but it was done pretty poorly, so i added a third color in the carcols line and i got a much better results :D i added few new colors too, but its still mostly based on the brochures:D

-4 extra parts, i decided to add some optional parts as extra, mostly from 1985 model, wich is nearly same besides few details. it goes like this:
*extra1: digital gauges (availible in both 83 and 85 models)
*extra2: gold lines on the grille (apperantly all models from 85 had them)
*extra3: gold lines on grille, oprional aero parts (lip, sideskirts and trunk spoiler, i decided to keep the sideskirts black even on the non panda models even tho it would be pretty easy to make them paintable, i actually tryed and they just look better in black lel)
*extra4: same as extra3+digital gauges

-adapted to ivlm
-adapted to steering.cs

lots of work went into it and im pretty sure i missed lots of things, but whatever, i think the pics of finished car speaks for themselfs, im very happy with the result :).

so yeah, that will be all for now, i actually have few more things to post, mainly a tuned version of this one, so see you again in few days ;D.

finally...a proper hakone nanamagari.

hi :D so recently i sometimes play gta again, so i think it was obvious i going to do some modding again lmao...this time its an another map...a hakone nanamagari :D you might remember my old nanamagari, it was my first addon map back in 2010, but it wasnt that good...not so long ago i was considering reworking it, but i figured out i wouldnt be able to make it as good as it could be, so i never did...just few weeks later, this one dropped for asseto corsa lol...i allways liked this touge (these 90s videos from there are fucking legendary) and i wanted a proper one for gta for quite a while, so this had to be done :D

in general, i tryed to keep the map exactly as it was, but ofc i had to make some changes, fixes etc...

so what i did on it:

 -converted to gta

-reworked the surroundings so its an actual island, not just a floating road etc

-some fixes, mostly welding, texture fixing and such

-polygon reduction, the map is very high poly, so i reduced the polygons at some areas.for example road itself, before welding it had nearly 40k polygons, after welding it have 6k yet its still nicely smooth, and so on :D

-proper sa style prelight, bright at day, dark at night etc :D -lod model, so its vissible from long distance

-sa style 2dfx lights, the map comes with a street lamps, i didnt wanted to delete them and replace them with generic sa lamps, so for the first time ever, i added a 2dfx lights effect into them :D i also added them into lod model, so it works with project2dfx mod aswell :D this also means when you will move the map elsewhere, the lights will still work propertly :D

-it uses 4 dff's, as i sayd the map is quite high poly, so i did an separate dffs for the main map, guard rails and other fences, other props and a vegetation :D all of the dff's use the same coordinates tho, so if you will want to move the the map elsewhere, just place the first, main dff, and use same cords for the rest, it will place exactly how it shoud :D

...i tryed to make it the best i could, and i think this is the best map i worked with so far, very happy with how this turned out :D

now lets have few pics:

like usaly with new map,i made a showcase video :D

before we get to the download, there is few more things: 

known issues: 

-since its a map originally from asseto corsa, where you cant really walk around, i reccomend you, dont go into the trees areas etc, there are some holes etc and you might fall under the road lmao, didnt felt like its necessary to fix that.
-at night, when you drive past the walls, at few areas it doesnt reflect the lights on the walls, mostly it do but i didnt found solution for that... atleast its on areas where you will barely notice it lol

location:

 same as my original hakone, at a los santos pier. if your not sure where that is, like usally i put a map into the archive :D

thanks to:
-SKYFLIGHTMUSIC, who is the original autor of the map for asseto corsta, he did an awesome job :D
-DIXICZ, who did some testing for me

and a last thing:

in case of any edits, converts etc, dont forget to give credits!

so here you go :D

DOWNLOAD

besides this, i also made a small update on the blog,i cleaned the blog roll section from the blogs that were deleted or inactive for many years...i kept only the active ones, or the ones where id like to see some activity again lmao...from over 60 blogs to not even 25...its kinda sad, how did this comunity died over the years...but i guess nothing can be done about it...i also resized the blog abit.i was setting it up back when i still had a 4:3 monitor, so now it felt way too narrow so i resized the general width.also pictures were way too small, so from now on i will use an different setting when making a post :D but i did go trough all the old posts and set the same size for the rest of the pics too, so its same on entire blog :) took a while tho lmao

aaaand thats about all :D i actually have one more thing to post, if you follow my INSTAGRAM you already know what im talking about, but about that some other time, so see you then ;).

lmao...i missed it

...yeah i just realised i quite missed my 10 years since i entered gta,and general modding business anniversary by like 2 weeks...gg

but yeah,even tho im not as active as i used to be,and mostly on s-tuner lately,after all these years,i still somehow enjoy it:D i didnt did anything new in a while now tho,but i will,sooner or later,i still got some ideas :D

10 years...i wouldnt ever guess i would be so much into it back when when i started...its so long ago,lots of things changed meanwhile,lots of good guys come and go,etc...yet it feels like i wrote that 5 years post just month ago...time flyes,and its actually quite scary how much...

well i dont want to leave this post without images,so even tho i dont realy show my s-tuner work on my blog,i will make a expection this time :D its the r30 we did with FLASH ages ago,i fixed it and converted it to s-tuner quite a while ago,but just recently i reworked it even more,to the facelift known as iron face :D complete rework to facelift version,bumpers,sideskirts,everything :D pretty happy with the result :)

i might convert it back to sa one time too :D tho i dont rly play sa again lmao...well i didnt did anything in stuner in a while now too,as i lately either do stuff irl,or play my summer car,or play at nes classic lmfao

anyway,excuse this abit messy post,but i felt like posting something about that...thanks for everything guys :)

and so that would be all for now,i will post something again,after i will do something for gta,lel...or would you be interested to see my stuner works too?i did quite a heaps of stuff for that already,i guess i could post it aswell,if there would be enough demand...but something tells me i wont get any reaction at all like usally,oh well....anyway, cya for noe ;D

PS:fuck you chase Oo