[WIP] 1997 NATCC Super Touring Championship

[RemusRacing]

you should use DXT 5 and generate mipmaps!
for the alpha: duplicate the alpha channel to a new channel, flatten your skin before exporting to dds and then apply a layer mask using the duplicated alpha channel then apply the layer mask to your single layer...after that you can export to DXT5 and you should have a window texture with working alpha don't try anything else as you won't get satisfying results
for the skins you should use DXT1 and generate mipmaps too

(for explanation: the mipmaps make the texture smoother on distances...without the textures look sharp and edgy even with full AA etc.)

Ah right cool will give it a try this weekend as well. I normally save the mipmaps for the car skins but not the window files

 

[Sven Hielscher]

Thanks for the info funk, shall give it a go over the weekend. not quite sure how this alpha channel stuff works but will give it a go!!!!

If you have any problems with the process just ask again Maybe I can do a short tutorial with some pictures to illustrate the way
Oh and you should know, that gimp uses your background colour (second colour on the left) as a background color when applying the alpha channel...so if you have the second colour purple you will notice your windows or such having a purple shine...so to get the best results and hopefully no errors just choose the background color of your image as second colour and before you flatten your image add a background layer with the second colour too...double safety xD but you just can try the different versions and see if there are any differences

Ah right cool will give it a try this weekend as well. I normally save the mipmaps for the car skins but not the window files

Great and as said before: if it doesn't work I can write a short tut with pictures
Just open a DDS in gimp with the mipmaps and then you can get a feeling on how many levels of different image sizes the game can use to blend the textures from different perspectives and distances...at least if the texture has mipmaps!

 

[ezy1]

Remus one thing i have noticed is that the Stratus does have a few more degrees of steering than i believe it should. all the other supertourers have 12.5 max the Stratus has 18.5 max which is more S2000 spec. maybe something worth looking into before release.

 

[RemusRacing]

Will see if I can change it before release if Andreas doesn't mind

 

[RemusRacing]

Added a few more cars

 

[Marc Majnes]

great,.......

 

[ezy1]

any chance you could include the number boards with the release??. looking forward to getting these out on some US tracks, i havent raced on many US curcuits and they seem to be so underated.

 

[RemusRacing]

any chance you could include the number boards with the release??. looking forward to getting these out on some US tracks, i havent raced on many US curcuits and they seem to be so underated.

Yeh no problem if I remember lol! This is one of the main reasons I made this carset as I never use the US tracks and I like Super Touring so perfect match

There might be a delay on the release of this as im thinking of adding the 96 season

 

[Marc Majnes]

Yeh no problem if I remember lol! This is one of the main reasons I made this carset as I never use the US tracks and I like Super Touring so perfect match

There might be a delay on the release of this as im thinking of adding the 96 season

 

[Marc Majnes]

ps: you might change this thread's title then...............LOL..!

 

[RemusRacing]

Thinking about it I will probably not do the 96 season yet. If I was to start something I would rather do a different series like Procar or JTCC

 

[RemusRacing]

All cars are painted just talent files and interior banner etc left to do

 

[ezy1]

Awesome stuff!! appreciate all the work mate!!

 

[Marc Majnes]

just bumpin..

 

[RemusRacing]

Will try and get v1 up on the weekend Hopefully v2 will have the generation 1 Ford Mondeo and Mazda Xedos with a bit of luck

 

[AndreasFSC]

I can add rear wings and simple front spoilers to the cars, but there are no templates as far as I know, so that might be tricky

 

[RemusRacing]

I can add rear wings and simple front spoilers to the cars, but there are no templates as far as I know, so that might be tricky

Thats cool still better than no mazda lol! But yeh could be tricky with no template but will see what I can do. With no template its the shading thats normally the problem from memory but like I say will give it a go.

Would the original mods templates work from F1C? Think I still have them

 

[AndreasFSC]

Shading can be painted, I always have to do that when I create a car I havn't changed anything in the mapping, so the templates should work

 

[Marc Majnes]

great news ....!!!

 

[Marc Majnes]