Behind the Iron Curtain GT WIP

Hi UWE!

We can discuss ad share here the project related files and ideas...

Monday I`ll send You the files of the tracks...

Cheers!

Cool stuff, but what is it?

A WIP track pack (7 tracks) resambling a 1970 Tour through the Balcans...

...a kind of small championship...

Sounds very interesting . Please keep us informed.

Zalužani GP (rFactor)
By Gianni Staraz
http://www.filefront.com/15122315/ ZaluzaniAltbier003.zip

Here the track ready for mapping for GTL/GTR.

Hi Gianni,

first of all "Welcome to the Bude".

Nice to see that you support our community now directly by posting in our humble bulletin boards as well.
(Hehe, maybe you still have some roots here due to your stay in DE you mentioned long time ago?)

Looking forward for some more nice scratch build tracks of your region, hope I could add some value to your efforts to get good results in GTL too.

cheers,
Uwe

Hi Gianni,

the good old GM2-engine of GTL doesn't like overlapping faces, this will lead into flashing structures.

I'll try to fix it ...

cheers,
Uwe

I see... ...

-20 faces (triangles )on that piece of track can be deleted, but the remaining 4 adiacent to the joint should be repositioned to follow the curve of the main path... I just hope that repositioning the vertexes will not affect the "bending of the neighbours pannels..."

Another solution that comes into my mind is to delete even the remaining 4, and to cover the hole with a kind of wall (or with a rumble strip...)

...damn... ...wish I knew that before...

Cheers

Hi Gianni,

how's about such solution?



Do you have the used road texture with a dotted line on the left side at hands?

Guess this would have a nice effect...

cheers,
Uwe

Hehe...
...that`s not my track

...give me 3 minutes and I`ll make the texture...

EDIT: http://www.filefront.com/15136717/Dottedroad.zip
You can use those if they fit...

Gianni

Hi Gianni,

just a small update...

Got the objects now restructured for GTL andworking currently on the nightlights/glow.




cheers,
Uwe

....fixed also the "open walls" and added some (hopefully) nice gravel blend objects...




cheers,
Uwe

...multi texture mapping is on the way and looking quite nice in GTL as well...




cheers,
Uwe

Wow, great detail on and off the track. Great work! Thanks Gianni and Uwe.

Yesss!!!!
Merry Christmas

Great job Uwe (...not that I had any doubt about the results )

It looks exactly how I imagined it! ...You ROCK!!!
...In a few days I`ll get back on it, and retexture all the objects (walls trees paddock...)... I`ll add also some more trackside objects.
I`ll send You the update and separately the instances for the new added objects...

Thanks Uwe!


...Next one of the series (Crni Lug GT) on the way ...
+/- 15 Km
video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPasXDQtGEM

Hi Gianni,

gstaraz schrieb:
Yesss!!!!
Merry Christmas

Great job Uwe (...not that I had any doubt about the results )

It looks exactly how I imagined it! ...You ROCK!!!


thanks for the warm words.

with SimEd2.6 I could (finally) use the bakemap feature (like SimBin does with the stock tracks).

So I'll try for the first time with Zaluzani, guess this will add some eye candy ....

cheers,
Uwe

Hi Gianni,

here's a first impression about 'baked' shadows (without any impact to the FPS).



cheers,
Uwe

Hi Uwe!

Great way to avoid the shadow caster on walls and regularly shaped objects ; ...and, if done properly, it looks even better than with the shadows turned on... although it requires a bit more work with P.shop on the background picture...

...Now, looking at the picture, there is almost no difference between the GTL terrain mapping and the rFactor background blending

Great!!!

Hi Gianni,

~15km ? ... OMG !

cheers,
Uwe

Hi Gianni,

gstaraz schrieb:
Hi Uwe!

Great way to avoid the shadow caster on walls and regularly shaped objects ; ...and, if done properly, it looks even better than with the shadows turned on... all through it requires a bit more work with P.shop on the background picture...

...Now, looking at the picture, there is almost no difference between the GTL terrain mapping and the rFactor background blending

Great!!!

it's my first try with this technique. I've used Blender's uvtexture painting feature to 'draw' directly onto the 3d mesh. Finished this "bake map" now.
Hope you like the result.

Pls. find a current WIP >here<

Now I'll continue with the AIW for GTL and wait for your updates...
(Pls. try to 'mark' the updates somehow to merge it into the current GTL version)

cheers,
Uwe

Thanks Uwe!

...Now, just to dig out my old GTL

(how much HD space I neeed to update GTL with all the mods and tracks here at altbierbude using a script?)

some mapping progress on Crni Lug 1976

Crni Lug Preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKZNp_lUuMo

Zdravo gstaraz
Very nice Video.
I love Tracks like this.
Our GTL has currently 14GB
Nearly the same space you need for the Updater
Best regards,Maze

Hi Gianni,

gstaraz schrieb:
Thanks Uwe!

...Now, just to dig out my old GTL

(how much HD space I neeed to update GTL with all the mods and tracks here at altbierbude using a script?)

quite a lot

(~14GIG)

cheers,
Uwe

PS: pls. notice PM ....