DTM 2012 Series for RACE 07/rFactor

[Andreas Biester]

Yeah it's the online version. Maybe moving steam over to another HDD will solve this. (quite old the one i'm currently using).

Thanks. i suck at texturing though, never learned that So changing the color is about the best i can do myself, lol.

 

[polariNator]

god that wud be so amazing if u can make this mod reality

I just purchased RACE 07 do I need any modManager or just copy paste?(If i want to use mods of course)

 

[Andreas Biester]

Added some Specular / ENV maps to the car, looks a tad more realistic now. Still to much of the effect though, gotta tone it down a bit.

I don't think you need a Mod manager right away, it's currently copy->paste. However the count of mods is limited and a few could have compability issues due to ID's.

 

[UMC 22]

I think those pretty green tyres should be adopted in real DTM. Black is so old fashioned.

 

[Andreas Biester]

I think those pretty green tyres should be adopted in real DTM. Black is so old fashioned.

Haha, you think so too?
Adjusted the Reflection amount to match the Default Race 07 cars. Pretty much looks the same now which ended up making it look pretty sweet if you ask me. Will give you real Tyres next to make the looks complete.

 

[Andreas Biester]

Well, as Promised i've made some Wheels - will put them ingame later, all thats left to do is to do a low poly Shadow mesh, physics and engine (will be using the default bmw sound though ;/). Looks like a solid car to me now.

*EDIT* oh and i already added transparency to the Headlight lids already

As always i hope you like what you see!

 

[UMC 22]

Looks fantastic to me, Afinda. Which BMW sound are you going to use?

 

[Andreas Biester]

Looks fantastic to me, Afinda. Which BMW sound are you going to use?

It's currently using the BMW 320i Sounds. Added the wheels ingame, for some reason they stick into the ground though, changing their height in the 3d Mesh didn't do any good whatsoever, also messing with the Suspension didn't change the outcome, kinda weird. Anyone having an idea?. Will add the Brakediscs and everything else that's missing to complete the looks next. Interriors will follow as soon as all cars (Audi A5 + Mercedes) are ingame at a stage like the BMW is right now.

Also i've got some issues adding a 6th gear, am totally lost in the Gear ratios. i know however that it packs about 420HP and tops at about 300 KMH

 

[AndreasFSC]

Have you added right size wheel shadow meshes? It might help

 

[Andreas Biester]

Have you added right size wheel shadow meshes? It might help

Nope not yet, will definitly try that as soon as i've got the brakediscs in there.

 

[Sven Hielscher]

within the TYR-files there is an entry called "radius"...maybe you should change (rise) the value to fit the wheel
at least in other gmotor-games this value is needed to calculate the correct distance from center to tarmac for each wheel

 

[Andreas Biester]

within the TYR-files there is an entry called "radius"...maybe you should change (rise) the value to fit the wheel
at least in other gmotor-games this value is needed to calculate the correct distance from center to tarmac for each wheel

Sadly nope, just messed up things so i gotta go bug hunting again. It's quite interesting to which extent bugs can appear with this engine, even placing textures into a folder can mess up the whole outcome.

The model itself is being displayed absoloutely correct in the selection screen - so it has to be somewhere in the physics after all, the tires were way to much inside the cars center at first, but that was easy to fix with a post from Günthar where he stated what exactly to fix. However i havn't been able to find a Physics editor for Race 07 or other games that are built around this engine. So all that's left to do is trial & error -> but i ended up thinking that i'll do that when all required Models are ingame (Body, tires, brakediscs, shadowmeshes and everything there is).

It's also quite funny getting everything into the correct place to begin with. That's mostly due to 3DSimED not correctly positioning the *.3ds mesh in the right place (X,Y, Z) which one ends up seeing in the ingame selection screen first (if not right away in the the editor itself).

Well i take all this as good learning experiences towards completition of this mod and maybe for another project around this games engine (maybe Go-Karts with custom tracks or anything like that - won't promise anything )

 

[Andreas Biester]

Update! Everything's now in place, added Brakediscs (I've called them lids as model, i don't know why but the wheels are setup in a weird way) Hub Spindles (which actually are called spindles) and whatever the third thing was ment to be (Called the model BDisc, all it actually does is blocking the view behind the tire).

All that's left to do now are the shadow meshes.

 

[AndreasFSC]

The "lid" parts covers the rim area and makes it possible to blur the spokes at speed.
The wheel materials can be animated to show different textures at different speed
(And the "Y" and "Z" axles are flipped in 3dsimED)

 

[Andreas Biester]

The "lid" parts covers the rim area and makes it possible to blur the spokes at speed.
The wheel materials can be animated to show different textures at different speed
(And the "Y" and "Z" axles are flipped in 3dsimED)

Sweet, thanks for the info! So it has to be an alphamap i guess, well i'll add that at some later point and leave it as Brake disc model - it makes no real difference after all which model does what

 

[Andreas Biester]

Shadows anyone? Only tyre shadow models are left to do now and then it's up to the physics/engine. i think i'll put together a pre-release so people can start painting it. I'm not doing this for teaser purposes but for Feedback from the people painting it so i can sort out UV map issues so everything's being displayed correct without any stretching.

Shadows:

Also as i've stated somewhere earlier, i've already begun to model the Audi A5 DTM 2012, it's pretty much early wip at this point but i'm positive that i can release some renders soon.

 

[Sven Hielscher]

With a pre-release you could let "us" have a look at the tire issue too
I'm really looking forward to the Audi renders!

 

[Andreas Biester]

Well, here it is - the Prerelease. ofc i've removed everything unnecessary and Sorted everything so it should match the way the default Race07 cars are setup (folder stucture and so on). There's no new engine and the Physics have not yet been edited.

You know the drill, unrar into your GameData/Teams/ folder. The mod Currently uses ModelID 200 and ClassID 199

http://speedy.sh/AWMWW/DTM-2012-by-Afinda.rar

Password for the rar is 4racedepartment

 

[Andreas Biester]

Well, told you it's early wip but here's a render of the Front of the Audi A5 DTM

 

[Andreas Biester]

Little update, countinued it a little bit.

However i might've to scrap it and start from scratch, somewhat can't really get the shape right. Only modeling it after Pictures from google rather than a picture/blueprint mix. See the Red spots on the hood for example, should be a straight line but isn't. Maybe gotta remove some polys to match it.. Btw. the red spots are actually polys so i was thinking that this might also shoot above the wanted polycount.