The "What Are You Working On?" Thread

davewilliams000 · Mar 20, 2018

Sorry for the flood of updates today! I'm checking a few off my list from earlier

Released #22 & #74 Jamec Pem Audis from Bathurst 12hrs 2018:

http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/audi-r8-lms-22-74-jamec-pem-racing-bathurst-12hr-2018.20181/

For comparison to the original cars (from Jamec Pem's facebook page):

They added a few more sponsors and changed the window banners a bit prior to the race from the above photo.
As you may recall I've been working on these for quite some time as a personal project (after someone else released them very quickly after the race), but now they're finished so I released them anyway!

HenkySA · Mar 20, 2018

that has been quite a long journey...

A3DR · Mar 20, 2018

Henky SA said:
that has been quite a long journey...
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Holy sheez that's good!!

Fat-Alfie · Mar 20, 2018

Henky SA said:
that has been quite a long journey...

I'm not usually impressed by skins, but that, Sir, is a work of art!! Love it!

HenkySA · Mar 20, 2018

A3DR said:
Holy sheez that's good!!

Fat-Alfie said:
I'm not usually impressed by skins, but that, Sir, is a work of art!! Love it!

thank you thank you.

my PS has been crashed thrice because of this skin.

Manfredk2 · Mar 20, 2018

A3DR said:
300k-350k is a solid number if you want to have visible engine details, it all comes down to the LOD_B and COCKPIT_LR models which is what the game uses most of the time.

May i ask a noob-question? How is the influence of objects to the performance of a car? If there is a number of 300-400 objects per car, will this affect the performance negatively (lower fps) of the car?

stingray_SIX_TWO · Mar 20, 2018

Manfredk2 said:
May i ask a noob-question? How is the influence of objects to the performance of a car? If there is a number of 300-400 objects per car, will this affect the performance negatively (lower fps) of the car?

Drawcalls affect performance, if you have a thousand objects all drawing from a single texture it doesn’t have any effect at all AFAIK

A3DR · Mar 20, 2018

Manfredk2 said:
May i ask a noob-question? How is the influence of objects to the performance of a car? If there is a number of 300-400 objects per car, will this affect the performance negatively (lower fps) of the car?

According to Kunos the more objects a car has, the lower the performance will be so part of the optimization is to have the less amount as possible. There's the reason why the COCKPIT_LR model is usually a single object with a single shader (unless there's a color change), and objects are mostly grouped by texture maps or shaders.
Most common is to have less than 200 objects for LOD_A + COCKPIT_HR, on LOD_B it should go down to about 25% of that and so on.

mantasisg · Mar 21, 2018

stingray_SIX_TWO said:
Drawcalls affect performance, if you have a thousand objects all drawing from a single texture it doesn’t have any effect at all AFAIK

I think it is disaster then. Seems to me that objects which share same material/materials. Should be merge into as few objects as possible.

stingray_SIX_TWO · Mar 21, 2018

Ok I guess I was more referring to Meshes and not objects...

Based on the very high number quoted in the question I assumed it must’ve referred to meshes and not objects - who’d need 400 objects in a car? I don’t even have 400 objects in a 20m long fully functional fighter jet.

The drawcalls I just mentioned as it is the single most taxing activity in infame rendering as stated in KS docs and as is the case in any 3D rendered scene.

stingray_SIX_TWO · Mar 21, 2018

Henky SA said:
that has been quite a long journey...
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Dude you need to cool it, you’re entering the epic level with this work and presentation!

AccAkut · Mar 21, 2018

stingray_SIX_TWO said:
Ok I guess I was more referring to Meshes and not objects...

Based on the very high number quoted in the question I assumed it must’ve referred to meshes and not objects - who’d need 400 objects in a car? I don’t even have 400 objects in a 20m long fully functional fighter jet.

The drawcalls I just mentioned as it is the single most taxing activity in infame rendering as stated in KS docs and as is the case in any 3D rendered scene.

I have seen 500+ objects on cars... tho it was the worst kind of "enhanced" rip mod.
But the number can rise on KSEditor export as all object get split up by material, if you were using a lot of materials all over the place, or even a single over many objects. Then there's stuff that you can't combine into one object if you want to use them under multiple Empties (for Wheels, doors, damage dangle model and so on). So the number rises fast

garyjpaterson · Mar 21, 2018

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I'm sorry, I saw Rigel had shared some RV trackside-objects and I couldn't help myself.

schnipp · Mar 21, 2018

So, Transit delayed indefinitely.

Again.

garyjpaterson · Mar 21, 2018

schnipp said:
So, Transit delayed indefinitely.

Again.

Haha, there are much more pressing projects that are having that effect, but the RV is not one of them

davewilliams000 · Mar 21, 2018

By far the quickest I have done yet - only took a couple of hours (mostly working out which bits of the template are for what)! I was catching up on my youtube videos last night and came accross Chris Harris (of Top Gear) on the Blancpain channel. He's doing the full season this year in a Mclaren so I decided to make it since I have not yet done a mclaren and it is basically only 2 colours!

There's barely any photos of it so I grabbed myself the correct colour of orange from Mclaren's branding document after a google search, and the blue I took from a pic of Mclaren's F1 car this year as its the same colours.

HenkySA · Mar 21, 2018

the skin has been released. check out the downloads section

Guillaume Francois · Mar 21, 2018

Damn at first it look like a real pics

ltcars · Mar 21, 2018

Another question, might be a pretty simple one, you need less of a beefy computer for car modelling as there are less polygons right?
So usinf a LIDAR data coyco be a problem for weak computers

garyjpaterson · Mar 21, 2018

ltcars said:
Another question, might be a pretty simple one, you need less of a beefy computer for car modelling as there are less polygons right?
So usinf a LIDAR data coyco be a problem for weak computers

Im certainly struggling with dense CAD models, im having to split it up and only have the parts i need in my scene to be able to model effectively.