Tracks Vila do Conde 1987-88 [WIP]

Alex V. · Apr 11, 2020

This track has been in the works for a few years now, as you can see by the terrain texture coming all the way from rFactor.
The 87/88 version was the last before the pitlane changed from one side of the road to the other and a few more details. All the trackside buildings were made by Digital Apex and there's still some missing and at least 2 were lost in HDD failure.

Here's a tiny video of a 1:10:7xx lap, subscribe to support us

The road is final, we managed to get as close as possible to the real thing by examining videos that in some cases we had to convert from VHS (!)
Here's some more screenshots of trackside buildings and so on, enjoy!

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Now for the issues and unsolved bugs!
1- Water shader: I'm using the water shader with stFlow and ingame it doesn't look good in the distance. I have a plane acting as water and then another one below (3m maybe) that's part of the background set. It does look fine in the kseditor...so what am I missing?
2- Camera_facing crowds: i can't seem to make them work, even copied an fbx from a kunos track to try and understand it but nothing works.

Hope this generates some interest, as it has been our baby project for more than 6 years..
You can follow is on Instagram by the way! @digitalapex.ig

Alex V. · Apr 18, 2020

Doing some 3D elevation tests... This is going to take a while!

Alex V. · Apr 30, 2020

Making some slow progress...
Can't really se it here, but changed shader values for half the buildings and added NM and MAP textures.
Still need to remap 1 building and make around 5 or 6 more. Trees are temporary until I find a suitable Maple tree example.

GTAce · Apr 30, 2020

Neato!

NFMO · May 1, 2020

As a portuguese myself, this is so exciting! So eager to play this in Assetto Corsa. Good luck on making the track! It looks really cool already!

Alex V. · May 2, 2020

Thanks

Fixed some artifacts in the church, rest of the day was spent making blurred wheels for the AX. Now i need some new maple/platanus cutouts...

Alex V. · May 9, 2020

Spent most of the evening texturing this building, hopefully i'll finish tomorrow... It was done when we still thought making stuff in Sketchup would save time.

Also getting references from 30 year old VHS and small photos doesn't help much!

Sergio Loro · May 9, 2020

pretty cool

Alex V. · May 11, 2020

Building is now ingame. Also replaced asphalt+shader and some other stuff that isn«t really visible.
Might have to cut down the 3d crowd (they were placeholders anyway)

Alex V. · May 13, 2020

Finally happy with the transition!

AccAkut · May 14, 2020

Alex V. said:
Finally happy with the transition!
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Pretty good, imo almost a little too good, as I'd expect the road to be slightly higher than the sand (ofc I could be totally wrong

regarding how it is at the real track)
Overall it's cool to see this take shape after such a long time

Alex V. · May 14, 2020

Cheers!

Well it actually needs more sand over the track, the beach is right accross the street and the dunes (not present yet) did a poor job at protecting the road. Actually the whole track was very dirty, we need to find a way to add rotten oranges on T1 and at the SS's and flying plastic bags

NFMO · May 18, 2020

Keep it up, mate! I've been keeping an eye on your work and it's shaping up to be a really cool track, especially for people that know it personally! Amazing work!