Confessions of an Automationeer, Part 113: New Meet

 Confessions of an Automationeer, Part 113: New Meet

For the third annual Automation Virtual Car Meet (which recently concluded) there was no theme whatsoever - entrants could submit any three vehicles of their own design. The turnout this time was quite sparse, but the quality of the machinery on offer had not diminished. The "venue" for this year's meet was the Desert Gas Station photoscene - a vanilla location in LCV 4.24 and a Steam Workshop mod for 4.27. As part of my exhibition for the meet, I decided to showcase three of my builds, all bearing the Wolfram badge.

Above, from left: Three of Wolfram's most notable sports cars -  1994 Warhawk (blue). 1984 Wolfhound GTS (white) and 1968 Wyvern 3.5 (right).

I had originally designed the Wolfhound and Wyvern with other competitions in mind, but went to the trouble of creating new trims specifically for the meet, and was overall impressed by the result, especially since I went to the trouble of making a fully detailed interior for each one of them. Needless to say, the reception to my trio of entries for this meet was generally positive.

Here are the same cars, this time shown from the rear.

I did not participate in this meet to win the title of "Best Car in Show" or "Best User" - I only attended to have fun and show off some trims that I hadn't bothered to show elsewhere on the forums until now. As for the cars I brought to the meet, the Wolfhound is the only one to have more than two seats (specifically, four seats in a 2+2 configuration), and the Warhawk is unique among the three in being powered by a V8 engine instead of a straight-six, in addition to not originally being designed with another forum challenge in mind.

Thus concludes my rundown of this event. I hope that the encouraging result from this year leads to the meet returning from next year - in the meantime, happy Automationeering!