This is the first track I made, created using blender and a 1-metre LiDAR DEM. It's a little rough in places and has no replay cameras and the AI line is broken. But it's drive-able, and Online and Practice modes work, so please enjoy and drive safely!
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Summit Road is a narrow, winding road following the summit of the Port Hills (Te Poho-o-Tamatea) in Christchurch, New Zealand (Otautahi, Aotearoa). Local motorsport clubs regularly hold rally sprint events on sections of the road.
The road offers magnificent views of the city, the Canterbury plains, Lyttleton Harbour and Pegasus Bay into the Pacific Ocean, but is also infamously dangerous. The Port Hills are part of the crater rim of a dormant volcano complex which created Banks Peninsula, last active in the Late Miocene.
Unfortunately, due to rockfall damage from earthquakes in 2010, 2011, and the risk of further rockfall in aftershocks, sections of the road were indefinitely closed. This track attempts to re-create the road as it was prior to the Christchurch earthquakes.
The total scene size is 131072 meters-square: it may be necessary to increase the 'far-plane' (aka clipping or draw) distance in Content Manager to see all the terrain. Requires Custom Shader Patch (untested without), and recent graphics hardware (similar to GTX1060/RX580 or above).
Credits
https://touge.nz
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Media
About
Summit Road is a narrow, winding road following the summit of the Port Hills (Te Poho-o-Tamatea) in Christchurch, New Zealand (Otautahi, Aotearoa). Local motorsport clubs regularly hold rally sprint events on sections of the road.
The road offers magnificent views of the city, the Canterbury plains, Lyttleton Harbour and Pegasus Bay into the Pacific Ocean, but is also infamously dangerous. The Port Hills are part of the crater rim of a dormant volcano complex which created Banks Peninsula, last active in the Late Miocene.
Unfortunately, due to rockfall damage from earthquakes in 2010, 2011, and the risk of further rockfall in aftershocks, sections of the road were indefinitely closed. This track attempts to re-create the road as it was prior to the Christchurch earthquakes.
The total scene size is 131072 meters-square: it may be necessary to increase the 'far-plane' (aka clipping or draw) distance in Content Manager to see all the terrain. Requires Custom Shader Patch (untested without), and recent graphics hardware (similar to GTX1060/RX580 or above).
Credits
- Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) for the Creative-Commons LiDAR DEM, DSM and ortho-photos.
- European Space Agency (ESA). Sentinel-2 2019 Imagery included is Creative Commons Share-Alike, Non-Commercial use only.
- Jack for the cattle-stops, fence and pioneer women's memorial models.
- blender, QGIS and GDAL for the tools, the testers and everyone else I'm forgetting.
https://touge.nz
