I have a 2014 Elan DP02 with factory bodywork. I just did a quick iPhone scan, but the quality isn’t great. Happy to send it, but again, it’s pretty rough.
I’m an engineer and have plenty of 3D CAD experience, so I may do some higher quality part scans over the winter and slowly build out an assembly model. Keeping scans small scale seems to help phone hardware to get things more accurate. If I get it done I’ll try to share it. A high resolution laser scan of the car overall and the bodywork with connection points would be much better, but I don’t know if I can get that done cheaply enough to have the benefits be worth paying for out of our household money.
But I’d enjoy having the DP02 body show up in a racing sim - far more if the physics were reasonably modeled, but even just the render on a similar car’s technical data would be fun. Also a good CAD model (using a combination of scans and lots of direct physical measurements) would enable bodywork tooling to be built, interfaces, and all that depending on how carefully the work was done.
I don’t know if HRP/Zebulon would be willing to share their upper surface model and data (such as recorded driver lap info) to create a sim race car, but you could always ask.
These guys probably still have the data somewhere. I sent them an email asking about it and didn’t get a reply back. I didn’t try hard or follow up though, so it could have just gone to a former employee’s inbox for all I know.
https://www.laserdesign.com/elan-mot...racer-dilemma/
My local track is also not modeled in any sim, so I grabbed LIDAR data and may try to put that together. I understand modeling and meshing well, but the simulator requirements and how the output data gets utilized are completely foreign to me, so I have a lot to learn before I could do it well.