Majestic GT - Wow, a British Sportscar
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Oh my, sometimes to see something that just blows you away. There is a pose set for the Majestic GT in store today. The thing is, I'd not seen the Majestic GT before, I must have missed it when it first came out. Looked at it today and it's gorgeous - and it's right-hand drive. Into the wishlist it roars. I have no need for it. I don't do the type of scenes you would use it for, but one day soon I am going to buy it, just because it is so great.
What products have you bought just because you felt you had to have them, even though you knew you would probably never use them?
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Is that a trick question?
It's making me nervous how apropos the default avatars in this thread are.
Maybe DAZ should do spotlight picks more in their everyday sale pitch page. Something like "Cars you might like." Or "All about Elves." and so on. I too come across products I have never seen earlier.
we need more cars we are bored of clothes .
As for the poses, we (royal we) would like to know why the front seat poses are for male and female characters, but the back seat poses are only designed for female characters.
There are quite a few british sports cars in the store;
https://www.daz3d.com/muscle-cars
https://www.daz3d.com/muscle-car
https://www.daz3d.com/sports-car-morris-showcar-iray
https://www.daz3d.com/predator-sports-car
https://www.daz3d.com/elite-racer
https://www.daz3d.com/spy-car-v12
https://www.daz3d.com/limousine-prince-showcar-iray
https://www.daz3d.com/sports-car-meteor-iray
https://www.daz3d.com/3-wheeler
https://www.daz3d.com/british-9-race-car-3ds-version
https://www.daz3d.com/vintage-london-double-decker-bus ;
Only some of them are right hand drive. We drive on the left in the UK.
That's trivial to fix with negative X-scaling.
Not quite that trivial, unless you're happy to have all the dials and text in mirror language.
Meh. There's not that big a market for wrong-hand drive vehicles. If you can flip things around with a little texture editing, as in this case, it's better to spend a few minutes doing that oneself rather than pine away on the forums because it won't happen so fast. There's also of course the issue of switching km/mi on the speedometer and localizing licence plates, but, again, that's relatively trivial. Changing the candy wrappers on the floor from Hershey's to Cadbury shouldn't take much longer. It's harder to, for example, believably flatten heels on boots.
Here's Polish's Roadster. This one also requires some fiddling with the rigged doors.
Never saw this model before so I took a peek at it. It looks to be awesome and based on James Bond's (Sean Connery's version of 007) 1964 Aston Martin DB5. Wow...what a beauty. I recall in the 1960's building an Aurora /125th plastic kit model of this beauty. At some time during it's short life on my bedroom shelf the inline six was replaced with a monster supercharged Chrysler 426 Hemi V8. I've always been more of a fan of American muscle cars and American traditional styled hot rods - (NO street rods PLEASE).
I don't, there are a ton of non organic 3D models like cars on the web. They don't usually have to be rigged, so simple OBJ import works fine for me. Clothing is a bit more specific to DS and it's features which is why I tend to purchase clothing items over cars and such.
corrected the list So called "Muscle cars" are definitely not british. BTW race cars and double decker buses are not sports cars and the meteor and the 3-wheeler are not british models as we do drive on the left hand side of the road, as scorpio said, so the steering wheel is on the right side.
I never saw this car either before today but I so want to pick it up and the pose set from today as it looks awesome.
The three wheeler has a left and right hand drive switch pose, which is really clever.
I took british as made in Britain, irrespective of where the steering wheel is located.
1. Ford Capri MK3, even though someone planted a bigger engine to it.
2. My bad, this was Italian Iso Grifo which I mistook for an Jensen Interceptor
3. Morgan 4/4
4. TVR Sagaris
5. Lotus Elite
6. Aston Martin Vanguish
7. Jaguar Mark 2
8. 1950 Healey (I think)
9. Morgan 3-Wheeler
10. Aston Martin
The bus was just a joke
So, I'm not the only one who thought "When did that enter the store?"
I check this site on a daily basis, and had never seen it before either, and there have been a few more occasions where I suddenly noticed something I hadn't seen before. Some odd bug going on? Or maybe some sneak additions other than PC+ that simply don't make the daily sales page?
It was featured in the newsletter on the day of its release.
Does this car look familiar? https://www.lynda.com/Blender-tutorials/Welcome/180810/363885-4.html Human built a lovely model and pushed much further than the linked tutorial, but the coincidence gives me a chuckle.
...bugger, and here I have been thinking of putting a jet engine and drag slicks on the Routemaster, ;-)
As to vehicles with right hand drive (particularly those that are supposed to be made in the UK) we definitely need more. Rendo has a number of vehicles for Daz with RHD.
In Japan they also drive on the left and cars there have RHD.(hence why the exhaust pipes are on the right even on imports sold here in the States while on most cars made by the US manufacturers, they are usually on the left side [save for SUVs and pickups for some odd reason] unless their dual pipes).
Oh, and I did pick up the Mjestic GT as it is perfect for my story illustrations.
As to to turning a LHD car into a RHD one applying - 100% scaling also reverses all the lettering, licence, and instruments which requires more painstaking work in a 2D programme to correct those details if they're going to be visible in the final image.
It's not all that painstaking. Took a couple of minutes to change the front and rear licence plates in the samples shown above, and that's only because I had the wrong layer selected at one point. Licence plates should be localized, anyway, so that's another minute googling a licence plate. It was the fastest texture editing I've ever done, since it's just copy/paste/flip. The dashboard instruments would be about the same.
Point is, doing that little bit of editing oneself is faster than waiting for someone to bring it to market, and provides a wider selection of vehicles.
...with my stiff unsteady hands, havng to perfrom a lot of intricate of 2D manipulation (primarily for the gauges) is "painstaking". I was so glad to see this and a recent Land Rover look alike had RHD .
@Perttia - That's a nice list. I've obviously not been paying attention :)
Majestic GT is my favourite though, so that's the one I'll be buying at some point.
I'm glad to get some more car/driver poses other than for showroom girls.
Anyone else remember the original one from here? 1964 EU Sports Car (archive.org)
Huge thanks and props for this tip @Sevrin! It works like a dream
Am working on a narrative set in the UK and was faking it by putting the driver with a steering wheel in the shotgun seat and cheating on the angle 
PS Got Majestic a while back and picked up the poses when they hit the store
Some people will argue the Ford Shelby American roadster as a British sports car as it's is based on the British sports car AC Bristol.
The American Ford GT 40 which beat Ferraris at LeMan24 hour in the 1960s was based on the British Lola Mk6...
In another thread, you argued that changing the scene ID in Daz defeated the purpose of most Daz Studio users, and now you are saying this is totally fine for those same users? I mean, it takes like 30 seconds to change a scene ID, doesn't require opening up Photoshop and swapping textures, or trying to use reverse pose controls because the object is flipped.
So if people cannot be expected to change a scene ID, why expect them to do this?
Which thread is that?
Anyway, all I'm saying is that IFF you want cars with right-hand drive, this is a way to get that, without having to wait for someone to make it for you. If anyone wants to wait for someone else to do it for them, that's their prerogative. Cars with left-hand drive aren't defective, they just may not be exactly what some people want.