Sonic mod for Crysis

Update #1

Welcome to the first real update of Sonic, the racing and car combat mod for Crysis.
You, the community, had to wait a very long time, and we apologize for the late update, but we were working hard to present some stunning pictures and videos to you!

Let's start off with our first car, the
 

Nissan 350Z (WIP)

We havent exported the model to CryEngine 2 yet, so we'll show you some renders of the untextured model, made by PSimbo, our Lead Modeler:

PSimbo made an UVMap for the "paint area", and he is now working on the uvmaps for all the details of his model.
When he posted the Ambient Occlusion Map of the paint area, i immediately started working on the first paintjob for this beautiful car, and here is the result:

Due to XSI mod tool, which desaturates the color a bit, the painting seems a bit grey, my apologies for that.

Of course, a racing conversion needs some maps, too, and thanks to our mappers we can show you some WIP screenshots of some smaller maps:

Beach Party (by jaLAlaBA):

you feel the sun shining one your skin, the palms are green, you hear the sound of the sea... and then - BOOM! you're bombed away by the gunner of another car :D

Burning Heat (by mXs MaestRO):

it's really hot in the african desert, and it definately gets better whe you're feeling the fun of blowing up other cars.

Frozen Engines (by chrysis8):

It's getting real cold out there - thank god you can warm up yourself by the burning wrecks of your enemies.

And now, we're proud to present some videos!

The first one is our brand new intro vid, made by f50, a well-known and respected member of the Tm-Tube community:

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And the second one is our Checkpoint Effect (made by Aegis) that appears when you're driving through a cp:

Youtube.com

Well, thats it for now, guys! I hope you're stunned by the wave of new pictures in this update!