American StockCar Challenge

juanarg70 said:
Skins are finally on the making. Stay tuned
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Genial..!
 
I'm working on the historic. Updating the bodys with internal panels, windows and sounds before sending templates to the skin guy.

I'm having trouble with uv mapping of a car. See picture attached. At first we though it was double faces.. or normals. But nothing we tried seemed to work. Any suggestions?

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Hey first up congratulations on getting this mod completed it’s a great effort and a fun mod I was wondering if there are plans in future to adjust the model behind the front wheels and behind the front air dam so it’s not possible to see through the car to the other side or see it’s lack of engine :) Currently from certain views you can see straight through while not a killer it would just complete the mod I reckon

btw it’s a fascinating series which I knew very little about I have done some research and might do a skin or two in the future for it

Either way nice mod thanks for sharing your hard work :)
 
bears said:
Hey first up congratulations on getting this mod completed it’s a great effort and a fun mod I was wondering if there are plans in future to adjust the model behind the front wheels and behind the front air dam so it’s not possible to see through the car to the other side or see it’s lack of engine :) Currently from certain views you can see straight through while not a killer it would just complete the mod I reckon

btw it’s a fascinating series which I knew very little about I have done some research and might do a skin or two in the future for it

Either way nice mod thanks for sharing your hard work :)
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Thank you and yes, My idea was to model some engine parts, radiator and tubins. Never got the time to propperly do it. Athough the cars have a lot of polys.. We have to be careful about adding objects to them.

If you or anyone is able to model simple suitable under the hood parts, I'll be happy to add them.
Another issue is that wheel diameter is set by the encrpted physics. Diameter is a bit oversized for the car so the 3d body has to be somewhat high to avoid wheel popping out the hood at breaking or bumps. This also limits your ride heght setting range for good aesthetics. If posible.. I would only change tyre diameter if it doesn't messes with the physics.

Cheers
 
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juanarg70 said:
Thank you and yes, My idea was to model some engine parts, radiator and tubins. Never got the time to propperly do it. Athough the cars have a lot of polys.. We have to be careful about adding objects to them.

If you or anyone it's able to model simple suitable under the hood parts, I'll be happy to add them.
Cheers
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Ha ha no modeling is beyond my skills I am just a dumb skinner :-)

not sure it needs an engine or parts just some coverage so you can’t see there is none... any way no pressure good luck with it... if I do a skin or two I will post them here :-)
 
bears said:
Ha ha no modeling is beyond my skills I am just a dumb skinner :)

not sure it needs an engine or parts just some coverage so you can’t see there is none... any way no pressure good luck with it... if I do a skin or two I will post them here :)
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Send me skins. I Will add them to next releases. You have blanks in teams folder to add numbers and decals.
 
Ok this is a very very early wip attempt and its not a perfect replica and there area a few template issue but it looks promising...
The biggest issue for me atm is I can't make a virtual ride car so it makes making a skin pretty difficult.. if you can look at this and fix this issue that would be great (new materials would be a bonus :-) ) and I will look at finishing this one.... no pressure btw

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bears said:
Ok this is a very very early wip attempt and its not a perfect replica and there area a few template issue but it looks promising...
The biggest issue for me atm is I can't make a virtual ride car so it makes making a skin pretty difficult.. if you can look at this and fix this issue that would be great (new materials would be a bonus :) ) and I will look at finishing this one.... no pressure btw

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Nice!! But I wouldn't be able to upload that skin into my releases because it looks like a real racing league car team. What you mean by virtual race car and new materials?
 
With the 397 cars you can select them in the spinner and create a new team and associated skin it’s based off the car you select and uses that cars veh file as it’s basis, not sure what’s required to trigger that but you car does not have the as an option the creat button is greyed out, it’s a modding question I can’t really answer... regarding materials again it’s a modding question but with the new materials implemented in the car model it allows different types of paint from Matt vinyl to chrome and metallic this thread might help get you started... hope this helps :-)

https://forum.studio-397.com/index.php?threads/ibl-pbr-car-shader-assistance.64024/
 
bears said:
With the 397 cars you can select them in the spinner and create a new team and associated skin it’s based off the car you select and uses that cars veh file as it’s basis, not sure what’s required to trigger that but you car does not have the as an option the creat button is greyed out, it’s a modding question I can’t really answer... regarding materials again it’s a modding question but with the new materials implemented in the car model it allows different types of paint from Matt vinyl to chrome and metallic this thread might help get you started... hope this helps :)

https://forum.studio-397.com/index.php?threads/ibl-pbr-car-shader-assistance.64024/
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Ok bears, maybe someone here can point me out on how to do this. It could be a simple line of code in the upgrade.ini. You could install blender or 3dsimed and upload the skin to the 3d body to check skins on the fly. If I could do it.. anyone can. trust me. For materials I just copy the material from other cars in rf2. Maybe theres an specific car that has a better material set onto it. Anything I could do to improve the content.. helps me. Thank you.
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Yeah there are some smart people here I am sure someone can help... the one thing I did notice is your skins in the original teams are .png files not sure how rf2 handles that as they should be dds i would think and your templates are 1024 x 1024 which doesn’t help the quality I would aim for 4096 x 4096

Its a fun mod it is certainly worth the attention to improve it ... :)
 
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bears said:
Yeah there are some smart people here I am sure someone can help... the one thing I did notice is your skins in the original teams are .png files not sure how rf2 handles that as they should be dds i would think and your templates are 1024 x 1024 which doesn’t help the quality I would aim for 4096 x 4096

Its a fun mod it is certainly worth the attention to improve it ... :)
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I added a plane in the engine bay as you suggested. Waiting on confirmation from the skin guy to know if he could change them to .dds and 4096x4096.
 
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