The "What Are You Working On?" Thread

[67JTM]

@AccAkut That is some nice texturing Work on the Cameraman's Post
I hope we all will get to drive it someday

 

[x0t]

Depends on the tyre! These days I'll typically model the tread and use that to bake normals from, whereas I'll use PS to create the sidewall details. I've also done plenty where the whole thing was made from manual height map or conversely all from a high poly bake.

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Thanks Gary, pretty happy with the results !
I made everything from scratch in photoshop as a heightmap that I converted in NM & Diffuse !

 

[AccAkut]

@AccAkut That is some nice texturing Work on the Cameraman's Post
I hope we all will get to drive it someday

it's more meant to be a temporary marshal post, something a club hacks together from leftover roofing material (as I have seen it at grassroots rallycross ). I'll put some flags, radios etc inside till the texture is full. It's all on one UV map and really simple. Alpha_test isn't ideal but it gives a nice effect to have it semi see-through.

I love these sort of things:

 

[garyjpaterson]

hmm i must be doing something wrong, my track looks somewhat different

 

[Stereo]

Wait did you do all the rest of that stuff just so you could make a sausage kerb out of a real sausage?

 

[garyjpaterson]

surprisingly not, it was very much an afterthought

 

[Daniel Watkin]

Today has been seat day

 

[Johnr777]

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RAM marshals really are jack of all trades

 

[Ben O'Bro]

After alfie's bush episode, now is the turn of gary's sausage.
And speaking of sunshine..

notice the difference between "normals up" versus "kstree group" (everything vs palms)... but given the amount of greenary.. it's what it is !

*

*some roads may or may not be suited for your typical GT3, sue me. (or don't)
That's something i've wanted to do since i started, having a bit of dirt path along the way..

more blurry ones...


i did put some buildings in place, and applied a random color on the others.. as well as quick roofing as an easy way to populate. A temporary solution that might end up staying for a while till i figure a better way to put the proper houses all over..

Mostly the wild part is done, airport too, but the urban area remains...
Before you can put your wheels on it:

• need sorting a lot of road textures, transition, dirt..
• need sorting surfaces (!!), and pits (probably gonna go around that blue school)
• physical road i guess
• planting more trees... i covered half the island so far
• more details like polls and fence and such
• some signage, to prevent taking a dive in few places
• ai ?? Cameras ?!

Book your cruise to Union Island today!

 

[Sergio Loro]

trying to add 3d crowd, should not be massive as my 2d people but looks better for sure, it will be optional if perfomance is not good enought

 

[chili pepper]

some signage, to prevent taking a dive in few places

I've gone ahead and marked some of those areas for ya...with my virtual blood, guts and a few car parts...

 

[GRT-RT-500]

how to NOT uv wrapped

 

[NightEye87]

After alfie's bush episode, now is the turn of gary's sausage.

Oh dear..

And speaking of sunshine..

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notice the difference between "normals up" versus "kstree group" (everything vs palms)... but given the amount of greenary.. it's what it is !
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*some roads may or may not be suited for your typical GT3, sue me. (or don't)
That's something i've wanted to do since i started, having a bit of dirt path along the way..

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more blurry ones...
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i did put some buildings in place, and applied a random color on the others.. as well as quick roofing as an easy way to populate. A temporary solution that might end up staying for a while till i figure a better way to put the proper houses all over..

Mostly the wild part is done, airport too, but the urban area remains...
Before you can put your wheels on it:

• need sorting a lot of road textures, transition, dirt..
• need sorting surfaces (!!), and pits (probably gonna go around that blue school)
• physical road i guess
• planting more trees... i covered half the island so far
• more details like polls and fence and such
• some signage, to prevent taking a dive in few places
• ai ?? Cameras ?!

Book your cruise to Union Island today!

Looking better and better, Ben!
Maybe the palms are a bit dark at the bottom of the leaves so you might want to consider to up the ambient value a bit.

 

[movo.]

After alfie's bush episode, now is the turn of gary's sausage.
And speaking of sunshine..

View attachment 454943
notice the difference between "normals up" versus "kstree group" (everything vs palms)... but given the amount of greenary.. it's what it is !
View attachment 454944
View attachment 454940*
View attachment 454942View attachment 454941

*some roads may or may not be suited for your typical GT3, sue me. (or don't)
That's something i've wanted to do since i started, having a bit of dirt path along the way..

View attachment 454946
View attachment 454956


more blurry ones...
View attachment 454936 View attachment 454937 View attachment 454938 View attachment 454939

i did put some buildings in place, and applied a random color on the others.. as well as quick roofing as an easy way to populate. A temporary solution that might end up staying for a while till i figure a better way to put the proper houses all over..

Mostly the wild part is done, airport too, but the urban area remains...
Before you can put your wheels on it:

• need sorting a lot of road textures, transition, dirt..
• need sorting surfaces (!!), and pits (probably gonna go around that blue school)
• physical road i guess
• planting more trees... i covered half the island so far
• more details like polls and fence and such
• some signage, to prevent taking a dive in few places
• ai ?? Cameras ?!

Book your cruise to Union Island today!

That looks great! Reminds me of Forza Horizon 3. But now with AC physics, that'll be a blast.

 

[EttieApple]

After alfie's bush episode, now is the turn of gary's sausage.
And speaking of sunshine..

View attachment 454943
notice the difference between "normals up" versus "kstree group" (everything vs palms)... but given the amount of greenary.. it's what it is !
View attachment 454944
View attachment 454940*
View attachment 454942View attachment 454941

*some roads may or may not be suited for your typical GT3, sue me. (or don't)
That's something i've wanted to do since i started, having a bit of dirt path along the way..

View attachment 454946
View attachment 454956


more blurry ones...
View attachment 454936 View attachment 454937 View attachment 454938 View attachment 454939

i did put some buildings in place, and applied a random color on the others.. as well as quick roofing as an easy way to populate. A temporary solution that might end up staying for a while till i figure a better way to put the proper houses all over..

Mostly the wild part is done, airport too, but the urban area remains...
Before you can put your wheels on it:

• need sorting a lot of road textures, transition, dirt..
• need sorting surfaces (!!), and pits (probably gonna go around that blue school)
• physical road i guess
• planting more trees... i covered half the island so far
• more details like polls and fence and such
• some signage, to prevent taking a dive in few places
• ai ?? Cameras ?!

Book your cruise to Union Island today!

I painted the bushes and treelines that are not KSTREE a bit darker on the underside. Gives them a bit more depth and it doesn't look all that weird in other light angles.

 

[Fat-Alfie]

I try and stay away from 'straight up' normals these days. They look ok at certain times of the day, but terrible at others.

I tend to manually set the normals for some bushes or hedges then just place them around the track randomly by hand.

 

[AccAkut]

I try and stay away from 'straight up' normals these days. They look ok at certain times of the day, but terrible at others.

I tend to manually set the normals for some bushes or hedges then just place them around the track randomly by hand.

but where should they point at instead?

 

[Fat-Alfie]

For bushes, I use a 3ds max script to steal the normals from a squashed sphere:

For hedges, I just scatter about 1000 flat plane objects and then steal the normals from a sausage shape:

 

[Nicecuppatea]

Some people say you should slow down at corners, but what do they know?

 

[Ben O'Bro]

For bushes, I use a 3ds max script to steal the normals from a squashed sphere:

For hedges, I just scatter about 1000 flat plane objects and then steal the normals from a sausage shape:

i'm not sure how your computer handled the normal thief for a whole track XD
it's taking forever on a tiny example

but anyways, it's the same topic as last time
my dear ForestPro plugin doesn't keep explicit normals
and manual painting is already heavy on just the palms.
Given that i had the brightest idea of covering 3.5 sq mi (9.1 km²) with trees
I'll need to match a bit better the palms with the rest, and call it acceptable within AC realm

(official answer on their forum is : 3DS Max uses explicit normals only for viewport models, and requires a specific mesh class to store them. Unfortunately Forest 7 uses a different class to store the geometry, so we should rewrite several parts of the core to support it.)

While i wait for Forest 8... or AC 2
i'll just make a notice asking people to try and avoid driving the track from 4pm till 7pm

(ps, why do i insist on ForestPro ? Cause i paid for it...)