Type-R PC

[Los Pescados]

Well.. had some time this weekend to just mess around in Maya, and I thought it might be kinda cool to quickly hack together my computer case.. well as I got going I realised that the sky was the limit.. maybe, just maybe, with the right mods and accessories, I could boost my CPU speed.

Here's where I'm at right now.. I'll try and have it done sometime Sunday.

http://realmaps.beyondunreal.com/pescados/computer3.jpg

Also hacked together a nice little sticker I'm sure will boost the speed of this design:

http://realmaps.beyondunreal.com/pescados/typer.jpg

:)

Mike

[unixman]

Why oh why!? You just had to bastardize the Honda trademark.

It's bad enough when I see a Saturn with "Type R" stickers.

[GenoOfTheCrayon]

May I suggest giving it wheels, but making it a low rider with neon lights underneath?

Another cool, but useless, thing would be to install windows, but tint them so you can't look in, only out :lol:

[Thrash123]

Ugly beige case.

Ugly I say. Beige should be banned from case manufacturing colors.

[TheShiningWizard]

I guess they keep it around because it looks more professionaller [sic].

[Chow Yun-Fat]

it needs a really bad plastic body kit that doesn't quite fit on the case and still the color of primer paint.

[TheShiningWizard]

You also need to buy a dozen 50-cent case fans that make a ****load of noise, and glue them all over the place. They should be cooling an AMD K6-2 and nVIDIA TNT2.

[Chow Yun-Fat]

lol, and stick a gtr stick while your at it. and dont forget about the nos!

[Chow Yun-Fat]

You also need to buy a dozen 50-cent case fans that make a ****load of noise, and glue them all over the place. They should be cooling an AMD K6-2 and nVIDIA TNT2.


naw, make it a 586 running windows 95 and a voodoo 2 card.

[masamax]

They should be cooling an AMD K6-2 and nVIDIA TNT2.


BAH! A real ricer-case would be cooling an Intel 133 with an intergrated video processor.

[Los Pescados]

LOL. Fantastic suggestions pplz.

First I should say this is certainly not an original idea.. there are actual case mods out there like this.. of course, mine will be 100% original.

Planned:

Full fake-lowering body kit.
Some sort of racing stripes (I'm thinking purple on green.. make the whole case a glossy green, yeah)
Neons

I might also make a monitor.. a nice 21" LCD or something, then put some stupid full screen DOS app on it, heh. Or maybe the startup screen showing that it's a cyrix 75mhz or something lol.

Mike

[masamax]

Don't forget to show it counting up the 512MB of RAM and 500MB of HDD space. That would be the most RICE of all.

[TheShiningWizard]

2048mb Ddr5700 Ram :d

[Los Pescados]

LOL
That would rule
I think I'll definitely do the tinting, tho.. just cuz it's so wrong

Mike

[masamax]

LOL, DDR on a Pentium 133!

[spm1138]

LED's on the front.

Maybe one of those LED display thingies with rheostats on in one of the 5" bays.

A "Turbo" button... :D

[Los Pescados]

Heh
Make Car Go Faster button lol

[Los Pescados]

Didn't have as much time as I thought tonight.. nonetheless, here is a paint test...

http://realmaps.beyondunreal.com/pescados/computer5.jpg

Mike

[jaunty]

Needs a clear panel so you can see the NOS bottle next to the CPU :p

[Keiichi]

Now it just needs a pimpin' hydrolic system. Nothing like a bouncing computer case to impress all the chicks... :p

-Keiichi

[Hadmar]

The 20000W hifi system is missing. :D

[chuckus]

Ultimate Rice.... an onboard computer inside the case of your computer with fast and the furious playign on the dvd player.

[Nightmare]

I thought the red ones go faster?

[Chow Yun-Fat]

dude, put huge air scoops on the side of it.

[Los Pescados]

LOL. Oh man this thing is going to be the physical representation of madness.

[ragingsamster]

[Neo voice] We need stickers, lots of stickers[/Neo voice]

[OICW]

Don't forget the fat fuel injectors and the exhaust :p

[Ice]

Shift stick mouse. :)

[Keganator]

Don't you dare forget the the cooling system and readout! ;)

[Big_Duke_06]

And doesn't the wing need to be in unfinished aluminum, not painted body color? Maybe have a couple body panels in primer gray?

Matthew

[BobTheFearlessFish]

i think you need to make it into a convertible. soft top computar!

on a more technical note. is the front bump mapped? or is it just modelled?

[Los Pescados]

Heh. "just" modeled, bob. I'm modelin in NURBS. Take a look.. here's a messy wireframe:

http://realmaps.beyondunreal.com/pescados/computer-wireframe1.jpg

Mike

[BobTheFearlessFish]

i have no idea about nurbs. i should probably get maya for that. they are clumsy in max. ive used them but they are clumsy. im guessing that in maya they are essentially the same... ie you cant increase the meshdensity somewhere without increasing it all the way around that loop?

[Los Pescados]

NURBS is kind of like a piece of paper with lines of latitude and longitude.. as long as those lines follow latitude and longitude, you're good to go (i.e. unlike polys, nurbs cannot have T sections or 5-point corners.. all intersections are simply lines going in two directions -- horizontal and vertical).. Maya's NURBS are quite flexible, and I think they're absolutely the best way to flesh things out really quickly.

My understanding is that in a lot of cases you get as much done in NURBS as possible, then convert to polys or sub-d's and do final tweaks/cleanup.

Mike

[BobTheFearlessFish]

its the fact that you cant refine the nurbs lattice on one part without refining it everywhere else. i tried to do a human head once. and got really stuck at the nose. because of the amout of detail there was. and that detail was carried into the cheeks and the skull, making it unneccesarily complicated.

[Los Pescados]

Modeling heads in NURBS is an art in and of itself, heh.

Mike