Tracks LA Canyons 1.2

[Phoenix77]

@shmafoozius cheers mate
@Howie2010 no worries mate HR FFB's will be coming, they're just going to take a while for over 42kms of them (also a lot of polys)... then another 100kms more!

 

[Phoenix77]

Tracks like this aren't normally my thing but I just had THE most fun racing with a large pack of MX5 Cups in the mid-morning sun. That car seems perfectly suited for this environment. Thanks @Phoenix77, can't wait to see these trees of which you speak.

Great to hear that Mascot, yeah there are a lot of fun car choices around these roads... The MX5 Cups are really fun.... I think @correca used an MX5 Cup to record the very long AI lines

 

[Howie2010]

@Howie2010[/USER] no worries mate HR FFB's will be coming, they're just going to take a while for over 42kms of them (also a lot of polys)... then another 100kms more!

Cheers, just wondering is the HR FFB the same as all the little bumps that actually make the car move up and down? I am not speaking just about FFB on my wheel, etc... it seems like low cars like the Audi R18, you really feel the road as the car shakes and hops, etc on your PCH track.

Thanks again for everything, where can I d/l the VIP version? Cheers!

 

[Phoenix77]

Cheers, just wondering is the HR FFB the same as all the little bumps that actually make the car move up and down? I am not speaking just about FFB on my wheel, etc... it seems like low cars like the Audi R18, you really feel the road as the car shakes and hops, etc on your PCH track.

Thanks again for everything, where can I d/l the VIP version? Cheers!

Yeah the HR (High Res) FFB meshes are the bumps you feel as you drive along... including feeling the double yellows in place as you cross over them...
This is an example of what it looks like...

You wont see any of this in game as luckily it's unrendered.

 

[stingray_SIX_TWO]

Where can I find all the trees? That screenshot looks eeeeeepic!

PS:

Hopefully the first of many.

 

[Ben O'Bro]

Where can I find all the trees? That screenshot looks eeeeeepic!

PS:

Hopefully the first of many.

Hey glad to see this one around there! Will be a nice drive!

Trees are... in progress!
By the way you should see the rocks in this version, you need to put world details to maximum.
This will be fixed and improved, for now the rocks are only visible in maximum, i will fix that in future release. As well as trees and bushes... lot of work are going into it!!

tried the variation using ksGrass, looking nice!
I wish ksTree had the same option

I recommend night drive, the experience is much better, makes you also forget the lack of trees for now

 

[Tberg]

Hey guys, think we talked about it earlier, but maybe I missed the answer: even though split up, all your surrounding physics grass and parking are rendered, is there no performance gain in copying that layer, make it unrendered, and make the original stay rendered but non-physical?

 

[Phoenix77]

Where can I find all the trees? That screenshot looks eeeeeepic!

PS:

Hopefully the first of many.

Awesome mate... well done for getting it in game..
I say... and Matt Farah would say...
"Welcome to the Angeles Forest, on a beautiful day, this is going to be a good one"
Enjoy your cars first... One Take

 

[Phoenix77]

Hey guys, think we talked about it earlier, but maybe I missed the answer: even though split up, all your surrounding physics grass and parking are rendered, is there no performance gain in copying that layer, make it unrendered, and make the original stay rendered but non-physical?

I think I missed the question mate... in amongst some other comments.
There would be absolutely no gain from copying the rather large 1GRASS meshes.. and making one rendered but non physical.... and making the other physical but not rendered... Might as well have one rendered and physical.

The parking meshes are not amazingly optimal, but they're also pretty small... and pretty spread out... and hidden around a mountain side....
Mountains, natures way of LOD'ing

Anyway mate... stop nosing inside my kn5's and work on your own track lol
Release it.. then I'll unpack that... and have a look at your Lidar data work

 

[Phoenix77]

Work on the HR FFB meshes is underway... This is the amount of polys for a 500m section.... So for 42km's will be around be around 103 million, before the heightmap / displacement gets applied...
I will thankfully be optimising this back after this to around 1 million polys.

50 variants of heightmaps... with some rotated 180... this equals 100 variants... in different orders... So little to no repetition.

 

[Ben O'Bro]

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Work on the HR FFB meshes is underway... This is the amount of polys for a 500m section.... So for 42km's will be around be around 103 million, before the heightmap / displacement gets applied...
I will thankfully be optimising this back after this to around 1 million polys.

50 variants of heightmaps... with some rotated 180... this equals 100 variants... in different orders... So little to no repetition.

can we call the guinness book for this track ?

 

[Phoenix77]

can we call the guinness book for this track ?

Maybe we can... especially with the amount of trees and bushes being planted
That was quite a trip to the garden centre!

 

[Tberg]

View attachment 266040
Work on the HR FFB meshes is underway... This is the amount of polys for a 500m section.... So for 42km's will be around be around 103 million, before the heightmap / displacement gets applied...
I will thankfully be optimising this back after this to around 1 million polys.

50 variants of heightmaps... with some rotated 180... this equals 100 variants... in different orders... So little to no repetition.

Finally, was getting a little dull to drive this

Why not work with 10-15k pr. 500m from the start?

 

[Phoenix77]

Why not work with 10-15k pr. 500m from the start?

Simply because I need the detail for the lines, random stones, bumps, patches, ruts etc...
10 - 15k (over 500m) before displacement would offer 'F' all in terms of resolution at that point. No where near enough verts!

 

[Tberg]

Just curious, always good to know why other trackbuilders do what they do in certain ways, regardless of method.

 

[Phoenix77]

Just curious, always good to know why other trackbuilders do what they do in certain ways, regardless of method.

No worries mate... As you can probably tell by my tracks...
I don't really do things in the 'recommended' way... But then if I did...
I would have probably finished a tiny little track by now, and never even dreamt of doing something so huge!

My methods won't make sense until later on, and there are plenty of other trackbuilders with methods that are far more sensible than mine!

 

[Ben O'Bro]

more guinness-looking-screens then.

you may see the start area in the middle of the screenshot below...

i might be pushing the game engine to the limits, but who knows where they are


bushes variety in progress...

 

[shmafoozius]

Limits? They just need to readjust the minimum requirements in the product description.

 

[guidofoc]

Just wow guys.

 

[CobraCat]

more guinness-looking-screens then.

you may see the start area in the middle of the screenshot below...
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i might be pushing the game engine to the limits, but who knows where they are

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bushes variety in progress...

Should hide a Sasquatch model somewhere out there, . Stunning work!