The "What Are You Working On?" Thread

[Ben O'Bro]

Thanks @guidofoc. Didn't know that was a place for modding exclusively.

Again, sorry for everyone who thought I was trolling, was not my intention here.

If there is a place in this forum I can post these, I'd like to know, for post them properly.

Regards.

we're a nice and welcoming (for most) community
Do what makes you happy

i don't know where you could post these
racedepartment has a lot of forums per game
maybe a general section ?
Or something more appropriate like a creative forum and pixel arts, where people could give you valuable opinions unlike here ^^

 

[Ricardo V. Soares]

I'll take your critic in consideration, friend. Thanks for sharing.

Regards.

 

[Matthew327]

I'd start a new thread in the F1 section of the forums. https://www.racedepartment.com/forums/formula-1.186/

Thanks @guidofoc. Didn't know that was a place for modding exclusively.

Again, sorry for everyone who thought I was trolling, was not my intention here.

If there is a place in this forum I can post these, I'd like to know, for post them properly.

Regards.

 

[Trava]

that's the thing, the more different houses i make, the more unwrapping i need in case of AO.
Wear can always be added on top afterwards
But AO... the more houses, the more dds...

VAO will do just fine. Unless you want to keep it vanilla friendly in which case.... have fun I guess.

 

[NightEye87]

VAO will do just fine. Unless you want to keep it vanilla friendly in which case.... have fun I guess.

VAO will not do the job in this case unless the buildings are modeled specifically to use it. With that I mean, the top vertices from the windows are closer to the roof than the closest vertex on corners (which would usually be at ground level), creating unwanted shadowing.
Sure, VAO can be used, but it will cost more polygons. Or unwrap everything (indeed in, say, 2 different 4K textures) without the need of those extra polies.

The unrwapping variant takes up more memory and more work. But it gives more flexibility in return.
But I do have quite a good idea of how many houses you (Ben) need to do so the choice is difficult...

 

[Johnr777]

@Ben O'Bro - excellent car

 

[Ben O'Bro]

VAO will not do the job in this case unless the buildings are modeled specifically to use it. With that I mean, the top vertices from the windows are closer to the roof than the closest vertex on corners (which would usually be at ground level), creating unwanted shadowing.
Sure, VAO can be used, but it will cost more polygons. Or unwrap everything (indeed in, say, 2 different 4K textures) without the need of those extra polies.

The unrwapping variant takes up more memory and more work. But it gives more flexibility in return.
But I do have quite a good idea of how many houses you (Ben) need to do so the choice is difficult...

Laziness is the greatest gift.
It will make me find a clever way to save me some hassle...
This is the way.

 

[Rodger Davies]

Laziness is the greatest gift.
It will make me find a clever way to save me some hassle...
This is the way.

You and I have different definitions of laziness...

 

[dwightyone]

not sure how i'll even texture all this, and it's just the beginning
but anyways, some early life for the airport surroundings

colours are no joke

I don't want to come across as a nosy neighbour - but which airport or road are you creating. But feel free to tell me to mind my own business

 

[Stereo]

I took a few weeks break from the Porsche (well, not exactly... I was just doing stuff that I can't make pictures of, but I did also spend a couple days on some other vehicles) but now I'm doing the instruments...

Gonna be downsized for the actual texture but I've got a nice render setup in Blender for making these now so GIMP doesn't have to be involved.

I don't think I ever showed off the colourful engine stuff in this thread but I did that early in feb.

 

[wmialil]

^^^ looks amazing

I've been thoroughly enjoying getting my mates and extended family to take photos of themselves to be immortalized in 3d as (incredibly low poly) spectators on my rally track. Trying to get keyframe animations to work is proving tricky though so theyre all static for now....

 

[GTAce]

Looooove stuff like that!

 

[Trava]

Got bored so I decided to redo my old RE Amemiya headlights. Still need to remake normal maps and mounting hardware and optimize the mesh a bit.
Pro modelers cover your eyes.

Mounting hardware redone.


And finished product

 

[Ben O'Bro]

Pro modders cover your eyes

you'd think i know what i'm doing with my materials by now...
But what a numerous way of messing up the result. Alpha channel, rgb channels, magic mult and more.
And once you think you understood, next thing you know, you try to redo a mask almost identically and the result is so different that it shatters everything you thought you finally got.

Trial and error.
And eventually calling it done before destroying it all over again!
"The journey of a track modder", available soon in your bookstore.

 

[wmialil]

But what a numerous way of messing up the result. Alpha channel, rgb channels, magic mult and more.

Mate it's an actual nightmare, and I swear to god it looks different every time I open a track in the editor!

 

[GTAce]

Still working on Aspertsham v0.8 (version for Content Manager+CSP+Sol).

New features will be: Reverse layout, chicane layout, wet layout, physical road mesh with higher resolution, seasonal adjustments autumn and winter, grass FX, working street lamps, random dynamic objects like birds, a plane, a balloon, a helicopter, more details (more 3D objects instead of simple textures) and many visible 3D barriers to indicate invisible walls/end of the world. All shaders and functions are optimized for use with the best additions I can imagine: CM, CSP and Sol, making my small track looking better and better. Thank you to all people involved!

Initially release was planned for Easter sunday 2020, but I had problems with uploading (although having a smaller file size than I had for v0.7) and then I decided to place special focus on the new rally like layout with chicanes. Still improving this version.

Release should be in a few weeks and I hope, I can upload it at that time without problems.

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I'm sorry to be that guy, but is there a chance that we'll be able to drive it soon? It's one of the most gorgeous tracks around.

 

[wmialil]

Some screenshots from the new track. Currently up on my site and packaging up a free version for RaceDepartment very shortly. Never did manage to get keyframe animations to work sadly. Something to try again in a few months....

Thanks to EttieApple for testing!

Full album: here

 

[Leonardo Ratafiá]

Some screenshots from the new track. Currently up on my site and packaging up a free version for RaceDepartment very shortly. Never did manage to get keyframe animations to work sadly. Something to try again in a few months....

Thanks to EttieApple for testing!

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Full album: here

just purchased the track, it's really good! really hard too

 

[wmialil]

just purchased the track, it's really good! really hard too

Thanks very much man! I'm currently trying it with VR for the first time and it's blowing my mind

 

[arixant]

more love for the tatuus today