Tracks Deutschlandring

[mantasisg]

You are the MASTER ! I see a lot of 2D improvements, looks really good.

 

[Leonardo Ratafiá]

I have spent the last few hours trying to get the trackside textures to look better. I hate this job I know exactly how I want it to look, but there are so many variables and sub-textures that need to work together in order for the effect to look convincing, I find it so difficult

So, I made a start - I made a new diffuse texture for the road, and added a rougher edge than you might find on a current track. I'm pretty happy with it, too. The verges are a fair start, I think. I wanted to get a basic set of detail textures, and a rough mask working first. It's such a long track, with a track edge that seems to vary from lush grass, dirt, forest floor mulch, gravel... I'm pretty sure I am going to need 2 or 3 materials to stop it looking too artificial.

Oh, and I added some chimney smoke to the newly AO-baked Russigmuhle hotel, too. I have used a flag shader with an alpha blend mode, just to give it a slow, subtle movement - quite effective

I hope pacific coast track will end up with that kind of textures in the transition between asphalt and grass. Looks really amazing

 

[Fat-Alfie]

 

[Ryno917]

Brilliant.

 

[katikomer]

This track will be so much fun. Driving the W125 or the 250F will be a roller coaster ride. It's already looking really good mate. Your Thomson track is what I use to show everyone what AC looks like with quality content. Keep up the massive effort.

 

[Fat-Alfie]

You know when you are busy testing, but have that weird feeling that you are being watched...?

(It seemed like a good idea at the time... )

 

[aphidgod]

Are those the official lap cownters?



(I'm really sorry.)

 

[Andy-R]

Are those the official lap cownters?



(I'm really sorry.)

That's a moot point, AC apps take care of timing.

 

[aphidgod]

I wonder if they're just spectating, or whether they have a steak in the outcome of the race...

 

[Andy-R]

I wonder if they're just spectating, or whether they have a steak in the outcome of the race...

Just grazeful spectators I think, they must be friesian there in the shade though.

 

[aphidgod]

This whole discussion is udderly pointless.

 

[Andy-R]

True, you can't beat a bit of horseplay though. Damn! Wrong animal, ok you win this round @aphidgod

 

[aphidgod]

Either way I think we should stop beefore we irritate Alfie.

 

[Fat-Alfie]

In all seriousness, they are actually quite effective. I have an awful lot of grassy areas / fields, and I had been wondering how I could pad them out a bit, without adding loads of trees that shouldn't be there. The current texture is a mix of cows and sheep, but I think I will split them into two separate textures instead. I can just see one of the fields on the main straight with a flock of sheep dotted around in it.

And as they are camera facing objects, they are always watching you... (like either the Mona Lisa, or Roz from Monsters Inc. )

I might also try to make some very distant trees too, although I'm not sure the shader works with the lighting too well

 

[Phoenix77]

I hope pacific coast track will end up with that kind of textures in the transition between asphalt and grass. Looks really amazing

I hope so too mate When I learn WTF I'm doing... I'll try lol
The next version will have barriers though...
Texture transitions won't save you if you overcook it on a corner

 

[aphidgod]

And as they are camera facing objects, they are always watching you...

Camera-facing crowds (be they cows or humans) can be super creepy... if you take a screenshot from behind, toward the action, you get a whole different vibe with them all standing backs-to-the-track staring at your camera position. Not really relevant to your work, just an observation.

 

[garyjpaterson]

Camera-facing crowds (be they cows or humans) can be super creepy... if you take a screenshot from behind, toward the action, you get a whole different vibe with them all standing backs-to-the-track staring at your camera position. Not really relevant to your work, just an observation.

Indeed. Sometime I've found myself in F7 camera mode in the grandstands during a replay - only to notice the fact that every other spectator have turned themselves round whilst staring at me. I take the hint and get the hell out, I'm obviously not welcome there...

 

[aphidgod]

Y u all starin?

 

[Joseph Maxx]

Y u all starin?

You forgot to do up your fly

 

[Fat-Alfie]

I am slowly working my way around the track, knitting the verges to the low poly terrain. I had promised myself that I would get this boring task completed before I got side tracked by anything on my list of things to do, but with only 40% of it done I thought I deserved a break.

I had intended to do my rocks and cliffs with fancy-pants multilayer shaders (and I might yet have to), but a quick test with a single diffuse texture might be good enough. Maybe try adding a normal map too It's slowly starting to come together, and I am getting jobs done that I have been putting off for months, too

My plan is to make the terrain look fairly decent without the need for 3D grass. In theory, when I do add the grass, it should look even better