New Rendering/Design Software

[Blaz-air]

After 2.5 years of research and development today is a very exciting day! I can proudly say that the single version of the Hok Digital Paintbooth 3D is available! This is the all new redesigned software featuring ground breaking 3D technology! I want to thank all my family and friends for the support over the last few years as I got to this point!

http://www.hokdigitalpaintbooth.com

[shopking72]

Very nice. Are you going to have 68 Impala?

[lolife99]

Man Carter,... this has to be your software at work!
I love it.

[shawno72]

Way way cool

[truckmanloco]

Yeah thanks Carter for a great program.

[lolife99]

Originally Posted by truckmanloco

Yeah thanks Carter for a great program.

WOW!^^^
Saving that image.

[truckmanloco]

Thats a future future build for me

[Blaz-air]

Yes sir those images are from the new digital paint booth software. The last few weeks have been crazy but we have some updates coming and hope to have more cars soon.

[AirSpeed]

Very impressive! Had me fooled! I thought that was a real truck!
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[vgate71]

Amazing software! The only issue I see is that most of the body lines seem to be off? Are there any revisions for the 67-72 model coming out?

[Chevys10dr]

This exactly is what I was looking for a last week. Gonna get the single version.

Thanks

[72c10projectc]

Thing stopping me is the price.
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[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by 72c10projectc

Thing stopping me is the price.
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The price to me is cheap for an actual rendering.

[mightymouse]

i got the single version about a week or so and i'm not able to get the results like that ,s been posted + my back ground wont work either .not that happy with mine i think maybe i didn't get all the down loads it didn't work at all at first and contacted them and they resent it then got it to work. then sent another e mail about the back ground not working haven't heard back. wish i had of waited till they got all the bugs worked out..

[Blaz-air]

Yes there are a few bugs that are getting worked out. I will have an update before the end of the year for all the folks who have purchase.

Mightymouse - message me your email so I can look it up. Trying to keep up with them all, sometimes they slip thru the cracks. I try my best on tech support to respond as soon as possible.

Carter

[CC69Rat]

Amazing stuff man .. Great job.

[67cheby]

Awesome !

[chapster]

Does anyone know what wheel manufactures the software has currently?

Cheers
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[JointTech]

Caveat: I've had this software less than an hour...

This software is 1000 times better than I could do with photoshop. But...

Its been out a long time and the wheel selection is severely lacking.

The paint selection is not bad but its missing a ton of hotrod flatz which is all i cared about. Looks like a bunch of glossy colors and metallics though.

there's only 16 wheels
billet spec, rushforth, savani, dayton, schott, stock, forgeline

The wheels except for the stock option are for "lowriders". Theres nothing for 8 lug type guys.

controlling the tire size is not intuitive. its not based on any tire numbers ive ever seen.
1-5 scale for height and width of 1-220.

no way to specify tread. No tire manufacturers.
I really wanted to put some 33" open country M/Ts on it

cant figure out a way to turn off the trim on the tail gate.

It rerenders the drawing any time you spin the truck which makes it slow. My PC was a 69 on the test they said to run on the website.

I havent figured out how to make the Rust or pin stripe features work.

some features that I understand would be a programming nightmare but would be nice:
choice of different grills and bumpers. Ability to change the Bowtie color on the grill.

Anyway so far I'm not completely disappointed with the software but theres no way Ill get the rendering to look like what I have in my head with the options available.

Its fun to play with though and Ill toy around with the colors as you can get some sweet renderings.

http://www.autowaretech.net/nextwheels/tradeunion.htm
for wheels and tires this site is way better.

[Blaz-air]

JointTech, first thank you for your purchase! Let me see if I can give you a few answers to some of the issues that you are having with the software.

Its been out a long time and the wheel selection is severely lacking.

Actually this version of the software has been out right around six months. The first few months after the release were fixing bugs and coding issues that arose from the multiple operating systems and computers that people are using. The wheel selection will be growing, that I can confirm.

The paint selection is not bad but its missing a ton of hotrod flatz which is all i cared about. Looks like a bunch of glossy colors and metallics though.

This software is licensed to House of Kolor which is made by Valspar. Hot Rod Flatz is a competing paint brand so I that is why they are not in a House of Kolor product.

The wheels except for the stock option are for "lowriders". Theres nothing for 8 lug type guys.

Correct, since we do not have any 8 lug vehicles, there are no 8 lug wheels. We plan on adding them but as of now, no 8 lug wheels

controlling the tire size is not intuitive. its not based on any tire numbers ive ever seen.
1-5 scale for height and width of 1-220.

This is correct and for a specific reason. The software is not an engineering tool but a creative/visual tool. If I were to use actual tire measurements and someone bought tire based on the sofware and they did not fit... well that is a game I do not want to play. I hope you can see the safety in doing it this way.

no way to specify tread. No tire manufacturers.
I really wanted to put some 33" open country M/Ts on it

Correct, way to much coding to change tire treads, we did have it where we could change the sidewall manufactures name but dropped it from the shipping version.

cant figure out a way to turn off the trim on the tail gate.

I think that might be a bug in that model, I will look into that

It rerenders the drawing any time you spin the truck which makes it slow. My PC was a 69 on the test they said to run on the website.

Correct, the 3D "Build" side uses cutting edge technology to do what is called progressive raytracing. This is what gives it the more realistic results but it does require horsepower from you machine to make it happen.

http://www.autowaretech.net/nextwheels/tradeunion.htm
for wheels and tires this site is way better.

Yes they have more wheel options.... for now but I firmly believe that the results from our software far exceed that of the free websites.

I really want to thank you for posting you honest review and am glad that you are not completely disappointed with the sofware. Maybe with some more time on it you will be able to get results closer to what you are looking for.

All images created with the software

Also here is an image that i did early on in test to see if I could emulate a 4wd raised truck. I know it is not perfect but I believe that it gets the idea across. This is doable in your version as well.


I am not trying to defend my software (as I believe everyone has a right to an opinion) but more of an explanation of why things are the way they are. Also with out feedback, how can I make it better.

Thanks for you time in reading my ramblings.

Carter

[c10monkey]

How much does this cost?
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[JointTech]

Its only $80.

Blaz-air- thanks for the reply. I was trying not to be a hater but thanks for the explainations.

[Blaz-air]

JointTech, nope no hater at all. They were all valid thoughts that you had and I just wanted to give some reasoning behind why they were the way they are. These are all things that I myself thought about from a user stand point as well.

Also if you need help with anything concerning the software, please just let me know.

Carter

[CC69Rat]

Carter -- one question, in the single version, can you change the environments or are you set to the one environment shown in your vehicle database?

[JointTech]

it comes with about 6 different backgrounds. I didnt see a place to add my own but thats to be expected since I dont have a way to put in a 360 degree photo.