A little texture mod i use since 2009.
The latest version is V 1.1 with some changes to 2009 mod (see screenshots).
I'll upload both.

It changes:
-Headlights
-Taillights
-Intercooler
-Calipers
-Steering wheel
-Interior panels
-Seats
-Rims (Bonus)

Quote from bishtop :

From what i have seen over the years, Russian Prisons make most other nations prisons look like a childrens nursery. Certainly not easy places to be

They are terrible, but, luckilly, my ass wasn't raped with mop stick by a prison guards.))))))
[This joke refers to the facts of tortures, that was published by Gulagu.net in this autumn.]

---

Back to Ukraine topic, a little story, happened to me:
Yesyerday i was riding a subway to another part of town. It was evening.
On the outskrirts station some guy with a bag full of stuff enteted our train. He sat next to me.
Looked like he is 50-55 y.o. He had a strange eye lid, it was half-closed and a bit twisted to the side. Few minutes later i felt strange pulsing vibration on the seat. I realized that he is hysterically crying and trying, but can't hide it. I was a bit drunk and felt relaxed. So I grabbed his shoulder and said the first thing that came to my mind, that everything is gonna be good. I understood that it is related to thing happening in Ukraine. He pulled a 0.7L bottle of vodka out of his platic bag. Silently took a long sip and handed it to me. I did one sip, and then we spoke. He said "They shelled all of them". I thought he had some family or friends there and he could not help them. I asked who he has there. He said "I had to be there. I'm too old, they did not take me". "I asked them to recruit me, but they have refused". "All my buddies are shelled to death, 35 of them". He told me that he went through a few 'hot spots' with his buddies durind the Afghani war and Chechnya. I was shocked I understood that he's on side of russian soldiers and i did not know how to tell him that i do not support it. Somehow i found words, that i don't want to offend him and with all respect to his past, the things that happening are senseless. That i do understand the soldier's duty but dying and killing in the name of bunch of corrupt politicans is crazy. It was very friendly conversation. I noticed the scars around his twisted eye, looked like the shatters of a bomb or something. He said that i do not understand things. There is a duty: "To serve to your country by any mean". I said that cops beating peacefull protestors say the same thing. They protecting country from enemies. And they define me as enemy. But the difference is that I would not shoot them if I got a chance, but they will shoot me if they got an order. He said there's no point to shoot me. We discussed it a little more, then reministed a movie, hugged and walk apart.
Very mixed feeling. A great man, smart, kind. But his opinion can not be changed. Never. And because of that opinion people are dying in the other country and poverty is happening in our country. Plus he has his own reasons for revenge and this war will continues back and forth because of people like him.

As a T.I. i usualy meet some strange people and face street theatres, so i'm not sure that it was not another orchestrated situation to affect my mind or something. Gangstalking intensifief since this war started, so i barely trust anyone. But his feelings and tears looked real.

Quote from Avraham Vandezwin :

And ? Are you afraid of blows?

Nah.
I really have much to say about all of it, as a man experienced russian prison, as a man experiencing stalking, as a man been connected to some subcultures and seen how it all turned out with time. But it's gonna be a big sheet of text, and after all, nobody will believe it and most likely will just start fighting. Wich i don't want(have) to spend time on.

For those of you speaking about NATO, listen to this man, if you have time.
For me, persobally, this lecture was a discovery, eventho i dislike Posner personally. Some people in russia call him an America's agent, some call him a KGB agent, some call him a propogandist, some call him a mason, but he speaks very resonable things. I don't like it, since it justyfies putin's actions, but it sounds very reasonable... It's like the 'official view' on things that happened, anyway i have another opinion, that i maybe explain later, but just for your information, watch it. I think it explains the 'logic' of heople, who supports putin right now and paint Z on their cars.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ

Last edited by Snoop.DriftEra, Thu 31 Mar 2022, 20:44.

Wow. It turned out into interesting discussion. Good and evil, god and satan, NWO, spys, nato, targeted people, slaves and oligarchs. I definitely have lot to say about it all... But usually people start to fight here or insult one another....)))

There is a guy, commonly known in our MTB circle by the name Roma 'Kokos'.
He's a mechanic, lives in Chernigov, UA.
I was waiting for info from him since 24,02,22. And was happy to found a new video on his channel, seeing him alive and keeping his sense of humor, telling us a story about a "garage secutity tips". In that video he ironically discuss a five weak aspects of a 'soviet era garage' and concludes it with the 'weakest part' as a low tank missile resistance. And i would not post it here, since it's a mountainbike people topic.
But here's his new video, that i think is may be interesting for an automotive people either:

This is his Lancia Delta project:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LxY4FxPwLbE
and this is what happened to garage:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q592986jJb0

Last edited by Snoop.DriftEra, Mon 28 Mar 2022, 20:10.

Quote from bishtop :

The effects of cluster bombs is determined by the amount of bomblets added.

Heres another cluster bomb video (Not from the Ukraine attack, just to show how the effect can be changed)

https://youtu.be/GYDUN_e9Xis?t=30

R.I.P Altezza
((((( Someone loved it and been spending all his free time and money on it.

dfgjkl Hey! This is international platform! Уважай это, или катись на русскоязычные форумы.

Russophobia? I don't like -phobia part. Me, personaly, I feel hate, not phobia.

Joking about migrated russians and teared down passports? And then you telling us that you live in different country. Wtf is wrong with you?

All yoor posts are full of mainstream media clichés. With attitude like that you will face 'rusophobia' contstantly. And BTW, "rusofobia" is a term, planted by russian media long before 2014, but wich helped them further with justifying their actions in Crimea and Donbass.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IRAjnVF_4cU
russian media would say this is fake.

fake? i constantly watch people's vlogs who stayed out of politics and posted videos about cars, graffiti, travel, nature, cooking, science, sports. and now you telling me this is fake? yeah, then this is how fake emotions are looks like, you heatless pieces of s..t.

Last edited by Snoop.DriftEra, Fri 11 Mar 2022, 19:36.

Thank you, Bishtop, for info from Kherson.

I've updated my post. Watch Novosibirsk video. It looks like City17. In fact all central squares in russian cities now look like footage out of HL2. Combine is everywhere.

Quote from bishtop :

it's about protecting others from the suffering.

Youtube already saved us from suffering by removing dislikes. Now when i say NO to war supporters under their videos i can't see how many of us say NO. But i don't feel safe, and my suffer continues even more. There's two sides to every story.
And let's be honest, "Russkiy korabl, idi na huy!(Russian battleship, go f..k yourself!)" for some people sounds offensive too. So i vote for freedom of speech. Let's hear both sides and see the ratio.
---
Z and V stands for Zapad and Vostok ( West and East). There also an O, wich i think stands for Center. There's Western, Eastern and Central military district ( can i say district in that case?). All these symbols were painted to distinguish different military forces at trainings before the war started. I may be wrong, but this is what i know.
---

Twitter is offline in russia at the moment.
Yesterday i was in the mall. H&M closed, Ikea closed.
ABB (electric supplies) paused their operations in russia, and now me and my friend face problems at work.
All prices are jumped.
Cheeseburger price at McDonalds jumped 18%, and the paper bags are made of lower density paper that easyly tears down.
Many young people look frustrated and sad. Some older people look like they never heared of things happening right now.
It's just a few changes i saw yesterday, coming back home.

Peacefull people in Melitopol (Ukraine) potests against armed invaders:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xOlU3Lpcgb4

Novosibirsk (Russia), sunday.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hPBYY8uNsxk

Last edited by Snoop.DriftEra, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 17:20.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CaxOLhiLbdf/
aw this is f...ing absurd..

center of Moscow 6.03.2022:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lK9EjljHxdI

Last edited by Snoop.DriftEra, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 17:11.

numbazZ
Good to see you alive. I hope other countries will help Ukraine to defeat Putin's regime. Most people around me are realy zombified and act like in middle ages. I'm in a minority of freeminded people, and also a target. They treat me as an enemy and stalking me for my opinions. This country is concentration camp.

Wish you all stay alive, keep safe and free.

I see the only peaceful solution for now: is to force entire world to BAN ALL Putin's friends. ALEXEY NAVALNY did investigations on them. Watch his videos and see the list of russian corrupt politicans and businessmen that were constantly violated human rights in russia. Their hands in blood.

Last edited by Snoop.DriftEra, Wed 2 Mar 2022, 09:54.

I do confirm, what Alxander said, and as a man who spent 4 years in russian prison system i can say, that authority behave with peacefully protesting civilians exactly as they behave with criminals in prison (same for Belarus). I told you this is GULAG, not a country. Nobody wants to be beaten down and got apartments turned upside down and all your property stolen and vandalized by the means of 'security operation'. Remember Half Life 2? It shows very clearly how unarmed people feels when the combine invading their houses. That's why some part of our society afraid to protest. But i agree, that it's not an excuse when things gine so extreme. We have to do something, but how.

added:
...and btw, i am, what they call, a targeted individual since at least 2018. Go do research what that means, if you do not know.

Last edited by Snoop.DriftEra, Wed 2 Mar 2022, 08:57.

Too much fake news from both sides this days. I try to distinguish it myself, and share with friends the info that looks plausable to me.

Right niw i recieved a news about people been arrested along with their kids at the protest in russia. The sites with this topic are already blocked in my country. I can see pictures in goigle, but i can't enter the site. Also tiday one of the "opposite" (they half-opposite in fact) radio stations who covered 2020 belarus protests is down now. I think i won't be able to communicate with you soon. We'll see.


added:
as soon as internent is off = that means they ready to kill their own people here, inside russia.

Last edited by Snoop.DriftEra, Wed 2 Mar 2022, 06:45.

I came here for ukrainean opinion, but it seems it's no time to chat for them right now.
Just imagine, yesterday you do your job, drawing 3d models, building your sim rig, playing online with friends. But today you have to leave your house with just your documents, live in a dirty hideout for an undefined time and wait till some mofos in government come to a peace decision behind the round table in fancy interiors. And even if you survived, no guarantee, that you get back to things at home as they were before. This world is f###ed up so hard! Sick of it!

added:

I totally agree with what Aleksandr_124rus is saying. And i'm sad that i'm in minority that surroinded by people like -verde-. I had a conversations with neighbours, family members, co-workers, people of Doetsk and Lugansk, and the treat me as an enemy of the state. I't s about 6/1 ratio. But difference between us is: i'm not going to fight them for their belifd, bit they are ready to fight me for mine...

Last edited by Snoop.DriftEra, Tue 1 Mar 2022, 10:42.

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCT8sdWC6EWqmcv4e6wjX3YQ/videos
The channel i found to see what's going on there. Very few information they post, but at least somerting...

and invasion itself:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gF9YYwn8Uc8

Last edited by Snoop.DriftEra, Mon 28 Feb 2022, 10:05.

On russian news they still say nothing about killed, injured and captured soldiers, eventho one of many captured soldies was confirmed by his own dad at TVRain media. Constant lies and spy conspiracies in this country never ends for decades or even more. So fng tired of this bs.

What i am trying to say is that people of Donbass and Lugansk are seperatists. Same as chechens in 90s. If you did't let checechens seperate and bombed them for years, why you surprised that Ukraine does the same?
And the language is not a reason to start a bloodbath. They could solve it in a different way, especially in case that Ukraine wanted to join EU, that problems with lsnguage could be solved by attracting attention to this problem, so the Ukraine government had no other chance than solve it peacefully, to join civiluzed world then.
I see this story with language as a manipulation to bring disbalance to region in the name of Putin's own interests (his rating was low down atm). Anywas, i talked to couple of people from both Donetsk and Lugansk, when this hell started few days ago, and surprisingly, they support what's going on, and happy to have russian documents and work in Moscow. So, who am i to judge, i just express my own opinion.

I'm looking forward to hear ukrainean people's opinions here, that's why i came here.

-verde-
You said exactly the same what propagandists says on russian tv.

...meanwhile ROSCOMNADZOR (ministry of "truth", that blocked driftworks.com and genius.com in my country in ≈2016), sent precautions to the media, that they can't call it a "war"; if media want to cover happening, they should call it a "military operation" (of DE-nazification).

When you justifying things happening by Ukrainian government been shootong Donetsk and Lugansk for the last eight years - try to recall how Russia been shooting Grozny when Chechnia wanted to seperate. It's exactly the same thing. They don't let a part of their country to be seperated. And if Putin is so kind to help people seperate from 'opressive government', why didn't he let Chechnia seperate. Because all chechens wanted was "leave us alone, we have different culture, we want live as neighbours with you in our own country".

Now we have bad relations with Chechens, Georgians Ukraineans and the rest of civilized world while our own human rights and constitution constantly violates and prices going up.

What for?

PS
Politic talks are always a thin ice. And it can even quarrel a family members. I feel like we've should not start it here, but hope we are all stay fellow racers despite all that. Scawen, you may not like that this mess is happening on your platform, but thank you for giving people a chance to have their opinion here.

Last edited by Snoop.DriftEra, Sat 26 Feb 2022, 12:26.

I'm russian and it's a shame.
You may not know, but in Russia people get arrested for attempt to protest war in Ukaraine. In fact you get arrested for any opinion here. They'd better rename this counrty into GULAG. This is prison, not country. But the worst thing is most people likes it and supports it.
I remove that embarassing flag from my profile.
I hope to see you again, but i'm not sure they won't block the internet here.
Keep safe. Peace.

Quote :

this increases the Poly count, I literally duplicated the bodywork, just changing the material.

Then IMO blue tint is unnecessary feature. I'd rather enhance the mirrors model instead, it's way outdated.

Can we have Slicks? This car has plenty of power to have fun with them.

Last edited by Snoop.DriftEra, Sat 9 Apr 2022, 00:19. Reason : ]quote] fixed

Quote from henricat2006 :

I didn't change anything in physics, what did you feel differently? I can check if I accidentally changed something, I will check this blue coat problem

I did it as an experiment, I wanted to see what people would think of the idea, I ended up not checking for any bugs before updating.

It felt like wheel size or suspension geometry were changed. Glad to hear you left it as it is, maybe it's just my wheel.
The blue coat idea means we can have a pearlescent type of paint? BTW Does it increase the polycount (since the pearl material is different)?

Blue coat is bugged. It flips the top part of model (roof and mirrors) to LHD and paints my skin's bonnet into blue, in Default white it does not happen.

P.S.
Did the physics changed? It feels different than a week ago or is it me?