Cars RSS GT1 Championship

Ghoults · Oct 27, 2017

chargingcar said:
Recommended in the sdk pipeline outlined in red letters do not use DXT1 for some reason not sure why so stay away from it

I've not noticed any issues so I'm willing to try my luck

CC · Oct 28, 2017

I got the base sorted out I have 3 PSD with settings and need to adjust the brightness and tones on my base layers , add animation for the lights on and off with the main lights , and obviously some slight wear and tear on my glass when I add it to the scene tomorrow ,
but got the foundations done and the key fonts done , 2 layers of ingame fonts and 2 layers on 3d fonts , so a fully 3d backlit display , ill do the rpms bar tomorrow

MCBRISKET · Oct 28, 2017

I love checking this thread.

I've had this model for at least 15 years, looking forward to driving it in AC.

Patrik Marek · Oct 28, 2017

chargingcar said:
I got the base sorted out I have 3 PSD with settings and need to adjust the brightness and tones on my base layers , add animation for the lights on and off with the main lights , and obviously some slight wear and tear on my glass when I add it to the scene tomorrow ,
but got the foundations done and the key fonts done , 2 layers of ingame fonts and 2 layers on 3d fonts , so a fully 3d backlit display , ill do the rpms bar tomorrow

3D fonts? they don't work though do they ??

they look sharper then the 2d font,
there is a 'placeholder' key I believe, that let's you put any text you want, so I have used that ? just to keep it bit more consistent

A3DR · Oct 28, 2017

No 3D stuff here, just a traditional LCD with a nice backlight

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Using default AC fonts, might have to do something about the gear number as it looks a bit blurry

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AccAkut · Oct 28, 2017

are the "unused" grey LCD elements baked into the texture or do you use the PLACE_HOLDER function slightly offset to the back for that? Prone to Z-fighting but spot-on positioning is easier that way.

A3DR · Oct 28, 2017

AccAkut said:
are the "unused" grey LCD elements baked into the texture or do you use the PLACE_HOLDER function slightly offset to the back for that? Prone to Z-fighting but spot-on positioning is easier that way.

It's all into the background texture, here's a sample:

CC · Oct 28, 2017

A3DR said:
It's all into the background texture, here's a sample:

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There is a font creator in the sdk tools I used that to make mine , but its a scaling issue even with brand new fonts my gear still not perfect , but looking at AC official fonts they can create different layouts than the tools they provided with higher res but sadly that function I can not see available within the sdk .

CC · Oct 28, 2017

Patrik Marek said:
3D fonts? they don't work though do they ??

they look sharper then the 2d font,
there is a 'placeholder' key I believe, that let's you put any text you want, so I have used that ? just to keep it bit more consistent

Its a backlit display so when there is no lights turned on looking at my reference and pdf manuals the display default with the green / grey background does not actually show any fonts , its really dim but the digits are there with the same visibility , so my idea is to actually animate the fonts so when you turn the lights on the car the display will light up and the extra layers will show , but I made my display using a diagram I am quite funny this way , dowmloading a texture and placing the fonts there yes looks cool , looks nice ,
but it will never be 0.1mm accurate so I choose to do it my way in which yes takes longer but so what its my preference and to be honest feels nice when I look at the display knowing that every single digit is where is should be the fuel I had to adjust because of the spacing distance between the single and double digits ,
but all this was setup to do something else all will be revealed shortly