WIP Rally MOD - Discussion

[Sneer]

What environment are you aiming for?
I've tested genertic untis with unit-setup set to meters and it works fine for tracks.
http://www.racer.nl/reference/using_max.htm

Dave, I'm interested in testing the script when ever it's finished. But I can't help much on scripting at all.

 

[William Geuze]

I'm wondering what the scale is on that Raphael, did you have a drive in it already to ensure you're not driving in giant land or midget land?

 

[Mr Whippy]

Max units are confusing really.

Basically Racer uses metres, so if you set Max to 'generic' units and measure something with the ruler/tape to be 100% sure it's the right size range.

Racer can thus build in 'system' units of metres or inches, or km, but if the display is in generic units and things are the right number of generic units in size as if they were metres, then Racer doesn't care.

1.0 in Max generic == 1.0m in Racer.


However, to make life easier/simpler it's really sensible to set max system units to metres, and then use the display units as generic or metres.

For cars though I'd use a system unit size of centimetres, display units of centimetres or generic and then scale it all down 100x at export or whatever... (though for skinned/boned hands this might pose problems, hmmm)


Main reason being that as up to Max 2012 at least the default spinner scales/input thresholds remain linked to the system unit scale, so basically it's like using tools designed for things many metres across on something with sub 1cm details... so always set the system units in a range appropriate for the size of the thing you are making


Dave

 

[Raphael Buthmann]

Guys, how do I remove this from console?

Anyway, I started this last week but got no ideas on how to continue. Then ideas came back and I'm making a lot of progress. ^^

I'm having a bug with bumpmap. Take a look at the upper part of the road. I don't know what's happening .-.

 

[William Geuze]

Unwelded vertices, different smoothing groups?

 

[Mr Whippy]

I really can't see what we are meant to be looking at but like William said, probably a vert/smoothing group issue if it's what I think it is.

Looks like the normal map is flipped though or something is wrong because the white line has a dark edge facing the sun, and light away from the sun.

Invert the appropriate colour channel (red or green) in PS to get it the right way around

Dave

 

[William Geuze]

Also don't forget to include mode=linear the layer where your normal is used!

 

[Raphael Buthmann]

And how to remove that messages from console that appear when the car is stopped?

 

[Mr Whippy]

What version are you running?

Iirc there is something in then oncar.rex file in data/scripts that you can comment out that is talking about slip ratio reversals or something.

Dave

 

[Raphael Buthmann]

Some good progress on it ^^