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SERPENTS ON A VESSEL said:
Regarding normal maps and AO, do you guys use high poly sculpted assets and then bake it down to the low res one or do you use stuff like xNormal/NDO to generate a normal map from reference photographs?
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A mix of both. We do a lot of baking these days, but sometimes it still makes sense to start from a photo source, tweak it and generate normals that are more than good enough.
For the duck, we used the roasting procedure.
 
Luc Van Camp said:
For the duck, we used the roasting procedure.
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I found a tutorial... but the duck didn't look alive after that. :o
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Roast, bake... it's too much culinary, I've never understood what the hell is to "bake" something in 3dsMax. But I will, it looks a mandatory stuff to cook to achieve a good ambient occlusion in rF2.
 
ECAR_Tracks said:
Roast, bake... it's too much culinary, I've never understood what the hell is to "bake" something in 3dsMax. But I will, it looks a mandatory stuff to cook to achieve a good ambient occlusion in rF2.
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Baking a texture is using the scene/mesh/material properties to render to a texture. After baking, the generated texture is used rather than recomputing things. Saves processing/render time.
 
Tuttle said:
Do you know what is perspective?

It is of course centered on its pedestal.

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ah, the track team has started (or continued) work on NOLA motorsports park :)

ISI Track Team said:
Track Developing POV; having some fun with new fresh data!...:)
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https://twitter.com/ISITrackTeam/status/761260322518863873


looks an awfull lot like the pitbuilding of the karting track at NOLA ;)

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EDIT :: and for those that might not remember, some time ago ISI did say it had licenced NOLA (inc. kart track), that was last year I think even before the Indycar race over there ;)
 
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The kart track looks awesome, with many layouts.

The track itself seems a bit too much like Palm Beach, based on track map and watching the unfortunate Indy race there in the past. But it may be different/better when you actually drive it. It's always in the small details.
 
The Indycar race might have been enjoyable to watch, but Mother Nature had other ideas... they should go to Nola at a time in the year where it is less frequent for torrential downpours like what F1 Have done with Malaysia?
 
Yeah, somebody from Track Team has little bit different way to do things than rest of us (modders). :)
 
Marc Collins said:
The kart track looks awesome, with many layouts.

The track itself seems a bit too much like Palm Beach, based on track map and watching the unfortunate Indy race there in the past. But it may be different/better when you actually drive it. It's always in the small details.
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In terms of driving, it feels quite a lot different on track. The karting track was actually the reason it was signed though (I signed it before the IndyCar race was announced and run). Good commercial needs for it to be built still.

This area does seem to be one of those places where you are always at-risk of a storm similar to Malaysia. I too wish they had tried a different time of year, but I think it was a promoter issue more than the wet event that doomed anything in the immediate future. Maybe one day.
 
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