rF2 GT3 Club @ Laguna Seca - Sat 19th April

Calum McLure · Apr 23, 2014

Davy Lauwereys said:
good question... i downloaded paint.net because apperently the gimp dds converter is flawed on W7 and i couldn't get them right.... but i couldn't find anything, anywhere on wich dds setting to use in paint.net for rfactor2, except for use DXT5 interpolated alpha....wich, yeah, don't work either.... having faffed about in paint for an hour trying all sorts of dxt settings and it still not working, i went back to gimp and am currently bodging it, with great succes i might add

Maybe Petra can elaborate, i found paint abit to basic anyways, having used gimp for years, so i uninstalled it already...

Cheers, I'll give GIMP another try, just been used to PAINT as it's the first one I tried.

Davy Lauwereys · Apr 23, 2014

Calum McLure said:
Cheers, I'll give GIMP another try, just been used to PAINT as it's the first one I tried.

Beware that GIMP won't save the dds correctly via the normal way, as i mentioned, you'll have to bodge it, here's what you wanna do:
-make your skin
-select basepaint layer
-copy and paste as new image (b)
-set opacity (image b) to between 10-25% (experiment abit with what you like best)
-there is a box you can tick next to the opacity slider, to fix the alpha on the the layer, tick it on
-flatten your .psd or .xcf so you have one layer and copy it
-now copy your flattened layer onto image b so that it shows up as a floating selection in the layers menu
-select it in the layer window, right click and "anchor layer"
-you'll now see but 1 layer, select it, right click it and select to merge all visible layers
-a pop will appear giving you 3 option, pick bottom one that says something like cut to bottom layer (my gimp isn't in English so i can't be mo precise)
-save as DDS , BC3/DXT5 and tick on the mip map option

Ricardo Edelmann · Apr 23, 2014

About the Livestream:

I broadcasted it via Twitch and safed it locally on my harddrive. it's ready to upload. i'm just waiting for the permission to upload it on the RD Youtube channel

Cheers
Rico

Davy Lauwereys · Apr 23, 2014

Ricardo Edelmann said:
About the Livestream:

I broadcasted it via Twitch and safed it locally on my harddrive. it's ready to upload. i'm just waiting for the permission to upload it on the RD Youtube channel

Cheers
Rico

Do you mind if i keep it on my channel aswell? it's a great bit of recorded history for our team

Ricardo Edelmann · Apr 23, 2014

that's no problem

of course you can keep it

David O'Reilly · Apr 23, 2014

Davy Lauwereys said:
i've uploaded the broadcast to youtube, incase the twitch one goes down.

Great job guys, very professional commentary.

Stefan Woudenberg · Apr 24, 2014

I found out what caused my unstoppable car... Overheated brakes

I "probably" forgot to set the brakeduc size back to 3 after qualy...

Davy Lauwereys · Apr 24, 2014

Stefan Woudenberg said:
I found out what caused my unstoppable car... Overheated brakes
I "probably" forgot to set the brakeduc size back to 3 after qualy...

Next time remember please

Frederic Schornstein · Apr 24, 2014

Stefan Woudenberg said:
I found out what caused my unstoppable car... Overheated brakes
I "probably" forgot to set the brakeduc size back to 3 after qualy...

I never change radiator or brake ducts for qualy. Does it gain that much?!

Daiman Patel · Apr 24, 2014

Frederic Schornstein said:
I never change radiator or brake ducts for qualy. Does it gain that much?!

I don't think you need to go any faster Freddy! You're making the rest of us look bad!

Frederic Schornstein · Apr 24, 2014

Daiman Patel said:
I don't think you need to go any faster Freddy! You're making the rest of us look bad!

Last race I looked bad with 40 seconds behind the leader

Petra Sklenarova · Apr 24, 2014

Hi guys, next update was almost released, but we found an issue with the hard tyre compound, so we have to rebuild the .tgm. Sorr for the delay. Meantime, all known bugs were fixed, plus all cars received major maps updates, so no more milky windows etc

Also, i reworked the material naming and loading, so it should significantly ease the load. Stay tuned.

Ricardo Edelmann · Apr 25, 2014

Petra Sklenarova said:
Hi guys, next update was almost released, but we found an issue with the hard tyre compound, so we have to rebuild the .tgm. Sorr for the delay. Meantime, all known bugs were fixed, plus all cars received major maps updates, so no more milky windows etc Also, i reworked the material naming and loading, so it should significantly ease the load. Stay tuned.

Sounds really nice! can't wait for that!