Cars BMW 320i STW/BTCC

Patrik Marek · Jun 16, 2016

Thanks to RD for providing place to discuss these mods and their development (since Kunos decided to close down modding section on their official forums)

This is going to be a replica of the STW/BTCC factory BMW 320i, it will come in 2 variants ( BTCC/STW and the Endurance Diesel *winner of 24h Nordschleife )

there's still a long way to go, I only finished UV mapping and baking AO, so the texturing of the exterior can start. Probably already know but everything about our projects is scratch made

Most work is to be done on interior, there's pretty much nothing inside at the moment,
I'm hoping to release late in 2016, hopefully enough time

physics at the moment is somewhat questionable,
our physics guys Bobskype and Lunae ( David Massieux ) are currently not responding, so pretty much no updates on physics so far, so we shall see how it goes

thanks to everyone who was helping on the project so far
Fonsecker - sounds
Ben Lee - phtography/reference and support
Lunae - physics

NLC_Paule · Jun 16, 2016

I´m glad to see you here. We also moved here after kunos "closed" there modding section. So maybe this is our new home base now.

The E36 looks amazing. Always liked your AO settings. The white colour comes out very well! And I don´t have to mention the proportions of your models...they are perfect!

Patrik Marek · Jun 16, 2016

Thank you,
I still think there is something little off about the kidneys, but overal the shape of the car should be there ( which is why I decided to start on UV mapping)

as for the AO, I think the trick is that I do 2 bakes, one with the plane underneath the car to get nice shadowing form ground, and then a stand alone car only, so that it's only occluded by itself, and then it photoshop I mix the two
it gives me slightly nicer blending on edges, and makes darker areas not so dark - while preserving the shadows form things like mirrors/wings

and I also try to render at double-resolution that I will use in-game ( in this case 6144x4096)

NLC_Paule · Jun 16, 2016

Could you share your render to texture setup and you´re scene setup? My AOs always look a little bit grainy. In my scenes I use one skylight and choose complete map in the render to texture output. But it´s also possible to choose directly AO, which doesn´t give me good results.

Patrik Marek · Jun 16, 2016

Sure, I will post those tmrw. It's quite slow so that's perhaps why it's not that grainy
Main bake is done with light racer in 3ds max, second is done with xNormal

A3DR · Jun 16, 2016

Model looks really good as usual, hope you can find someone with good physics experience to work on it.

Philip Antonia · Jun 16, 2016

Gr8 to see you here Patrik as you have an involvement in some of my most eagerly awaited projects!! Hope more of the main modders come over to RD as it's going to be a real pain searching around for news on some very promising work otherwise!!

Different forum and a new chapter, but still your Beemer is top of my wish list! ;-)

Dave_6 · Jun 16, 2016

So glad to see you here Patrik!

Patrik Marek · Jun 22, 2016

starting on the BMW motorsport livery ( taking a break from modeling )

oh, and here are the settings for my AO bake
1 skylight with multiplier at 1.0, sky color set to 242,242,255
rendering with Light Tracer
(if settings isn't mentioned it should be set to 1)
rays 600
filter size 2
ray bias 0.01
cone angle 60
color bleed 10
bounces 1
Adaptive undersampling on
initial sample spacing 32x32
subdivide down to 1x1

if I render my scene, this is what it looks like ( and what gets baked pretty much )

NLC_Paule · Jun 22, 2016

Thanks for sharing! I´ll try these settings.

Patrik Marek · Jun 28, 2016

slow progress, but progress non the less

Brownninja97 · Jun 28, 2016

ahh so racedepartment has started allowing pornography on their sites.

Patrik Marek · Jun 29, 2016

anyone know this logo ?
it looks like it says Classici with additional small 'i'

couldn't find it so far

Brownninja97 · Jun 29, 2016

Patrik Marek said:
anyone know this logo ?
it looks like it says Classici with additional small 'i'

couldn't find it so far
View attachment 141788

http://www.racingsportscars.com/cars.html

this site has pictures on just about every race car so it might help. just about to leave for work so i can search sadly. good luck though

Mr.Mugel · Jun 29, 2016

Replied on FB, but I´ll put it here, too. Interestingly from the site Brownninja mentioned.

Only slightly better, but maybe worth a look:
http://www.racingsportscars.com/.../Brno-2002-05-19s-050.jpg

LeSunTzu · Jun 29, 2016

You will probably not find much better than that, it is a clothing trademark by an Italian company that went bankrupt a few years ago. The font is a sort of condensed Bodoni.