WIP Upcoming Tracks 'Circuit of Wales' (Ebbw Vale) WIP

[Ron Squire]

tried that and it didnt work still falled through

 

[Ron Squire]

Real World news on this track and the outline building application for the track has been approved YAY!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mangoletsi]

Hi

I tried exporting it last night, and the grid had vanished. So I reloaded your original project without any modifications, and the grid still wasn't showing. I downloaded your beta track, and the grid is there. It's visible in BTB, but not in rFactor.

This is going to be a tough fix. There seems to be 4 seperate layers of the main race track all on top of each other. I'm just trying to work out which layer the grid is attached to atm, but will have another look tonight.

 

[Ron Squire]

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[Erwin Greven]

I could easily delete Track 2, 3 and 4. And there was still a AIW file made by BTB.

 

[Erwin Greven]

I notice a few things: You put multiple layers of walls, terrain or a combination of both on top of each other. This can hurt the track when drive in the dark. When two layers are on top of each other and have receive light checked, they will cast a double amount of light.

 

[Mangoletsi]

Ran into problems with the NL textures, and made some compromises to fix that sinking feeling.

Currently uploading

 

[Ron Squire]

so what seems to be the problem

 

[Mangoletsi]

The sinking problem, was caused because you forgot to click on the GROUNDED tick box.
This caused the wall /tarmac to be floating way above the track. I've grounded the pitlane.

I experienced other problems which I couldn't work out why it was happening. The grid wall/tarmac section was invisible in rFactor, so I deleted it and just added the grid to the surface of the track directly. When testing in rFactor, the NL grid texture was appearing on all tarmac surfaces. I've never seen it do that before. So I had to remove the NL tarmac (kept grid) and use the default tarmac which fixed the problem.

I had to roughly adjust the allignment of the AIW aswell, as it didn't line up after the changes.

Still uploading

 

[Erwin Greven]

thanks for also looking at it. i am looking for these mistakes some two days and overlooked the check ground tick box.

 

[Mangoletsi]

Finally finished uploading the project folder

Circuit2

 

[Paul M Jones]

I will be following this, of course.

Only 30 miles from Ebbw Vale.. so I'm so happy that it's been approved.

 

[Ron Squire]

tested it out and i still have a problem and its on the main straight as well on the same side of the track

 

[Mangoletsi]

I've been doing some more testing and investigation, I have no idea what the AI are crashing into on the right handside of the start finish straight, and the straight section just after the chicane at turn 1. I deleted the all the ai and re appended the track, but the mysterious invisible objects are still there. Hopefully someone else will spot something I missed.


Looking at the pitlane, I've noticed the car is still sinking. There are a lot of layers on top of the terrain, and i cant lower them enough because the terrain is uneven and will show through.
The only thing I can think of, is to delete the pitlane terrain and the pitlane, and re do it with a proper road section.

 

[Mangoletsi]

Sorry to bring you more bad news,

They changed the circuit design and released new images this month.

Picture 1
Picture 2

 

[Ron Squire]

looks like that i can redesign it as a different project hopefully removing the sinking hole

 

[Ron Squire]

Update on project the circuit is coming on well just need to sort out the off road terrain and hospitailty

 

[Ron Squire]

the new project is nearing the end of the Alpha phase so here is a View of the circuit on bobs track builder

 

[Ron Squire]

rFactor work is halted ATM Due to internal Problems, but good news in the real world, the circuit will start work around christmas time

 

[Ron Squire]

i got bad news the hard drive containing the project for the circuit of wales has died on me and have a new hard drive and i am able to get BTB back on but it does mean i have to restart the project all over again, but this time i need a couple of helping hands with the Elevation and Terrain only, i can do the rest