Brazilian Road

AMGfan(BPM) · Sep 5, 2011

Me, as like almost everybody who plays racer, love to drive at polish roads. So I always thought about do a brazilian road like that. Me and Raphael are planning to join our forces to do a great place to drive around, and other people around world can try a little how is driving here. It will be fictional places, but the feeling will be the same of real drive.

Here is a few pics of the first thing that I did.

Raphael, you are welcome to put any news here too.

JagerMan · Sep 5, 2011

This is looking great already

, keep up the good work cause a brazilian road would be fantastic in racer

Alexander Knoll · Sep 6, 2011

yep, looks like a nice start Tom!

boomer541 · Sep 6, 2011

How much is the toll? Looks like it will be a great track, keep at it.

Mr Whippy · Sep 6, 2011

Great to see some scratch made tracks

My 2p from what I have learnt recently wrt lines on surfaces, do it with decals.

Have maybe a 1x 2048 x 2048 texture with all your paints on it, and then have all the cut-outs for the lines/shapes needed in the alpha. Then you can get sharper quality paint edges. You could even add a bump map to it to give the paint some more texture if you wanted.
You can elevate them about 5mm above the road surface and 'drive' on them too, so give them a different material (slippier), so when you hit them you feel a slight bump and can lose traction.
The don't filter badly with distance or viewing angle, so the quality looks better (ie, anistropic filtering is needed at very high levels to get lines looking solid into the distance)

You can add lots more quality and detail for a single texture/shader for the whole track, which is quite efficient!

You can also have much more artistic freedom to go wild with decals too, so you can just make your asphalt surfaces as needed, then worry about the white lines in separate polygons.

Decals seem to be the way forward now for the Racer gfx engine.

Cheers

Dave

Raphael Buthmann · Sep 6, 2011

You're better modeler than me . LOL

QuadCoreMax · Sep 7, 2011

Looks like the Italian ones, hehe ...

Hopefully, not everywhere in Europe you need to pay those god damn taxes, hate them !

AMGfan(BPM) · Sep 7, 2011

thank you guys. Rapha, you are so modest. lol

Adding some grass ..

QuadCoreMax · Sep 7, 2011

Was just thinking, it's a perfect project to animate those barriers with simple skeletons (2 bones) + triggerlines, so when any car approaches it would open automatically. Sure, we could do it a little more complex too, with some characters & some audio trigger events...could be lol !

Let me know, if you need some help implementing these...
Looking forward !

AMGfan(BPM) · Sep 8, 2011

Of sure mate, I will just model and send to raphael, and he will put ingame. I am sure he will like your idea! I am in! I think I will need more things to be animated, we will keep talking~!

AMGfan(BPM) · Sep 8, 2011

Did more km of road

AMGfan(BPM) · Sep 15, 2011

boomer541 · Sep 15, 2011

Looking good!

AMGfan(BPM) · Sep 17, 2011

Alexander Knoll · Sep 17, 2011

Traffic?
Looks nice!
...are that in game pics?

AMGfan(BPM) · Sep 17, 2011

no alex, it is 3ds rendering. WOuld be nice to add some traffic on it, This is why I will do a little circuit kind there, to simulate roadway traffic when racer allow it