There is a distinct difference between a road with 4 meter long polygons which makes you bump around all over the place like some of the lazy conversions, and a smooth surface including appropriate bumps and dips where they should be
[RELEASE] Nordschleife Tourist v1.65 beta
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There is a distinct difference between a road with 4 meter long polygons which makes you bump around all over the place like some of the lazy conversions, and a smooth surface including appropriate bumps and dips where they should be
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if you're referring to my importGMT2v2 the script no import rf2 GMT. The script simply converts some rf1 shaders to rf2 shaders.
The track looks good I hope the source is not from simBin
About track conversion if you have the track in 3dsMAX you can use my script GmaterialTool ( is free) to do some task like swap trees, increase road mesh, copy materials, copy modifiers to select objs and more.
In large tracks automatism helps to speed up the conversion.
Mario could you "teach" us how to increase road mesh with your GmaterialTool - in the original post maybe. TIA
Thanks for the effort, but I really think that a big-huge project like this need a big team to make it so why dont you think to ask help and collaboration from other modders?!
I've said from the start that this project could end up a community collaboration. I'll do what I'm able to do with the track, release it, and if I can't take it further, then someone will be free to take from where I am, and go from there.
I'll let you guys know when I'm done with it.
I don't see how a team can work on something like this, and not be beside each other. A lot of materials are used in various part of tracks, so if someone make changes to a material, that means I cannot be sure that my changes will be fine with your changes and so on.
All it takes is a guy with some time on his hand and dedication... which I have plenty of both of them
if you're referring to my importGMT2v2 the script no import rf2 GMT. The script simply converts some rf1 shaders to rf2 shaders.
The track looks good I hope the source is not from simBin
About track conversion if you have the track in 3dsMAX you can use my script GmaterialTool ( is free) to do some task like swap trees, increase road mesh, copy materials, copy modifiers to select objs and more.
In large tracks automatism helps to speed up the conversion.
Oh I see. Well I'm happy then! I did used your gmaterialtool to split up the road from scenery (followed your nice tutorial on it, how to use gmaterial to split road and increase mesh, thanks for making this!)
I use 3dsimed to swap material by spaskis tutorial. It goes fast! Copy/Paste Materials...
Ok, before I get swarmed by these kind of post, please take note of the original version... version 2.2a... it is free to mod/convert/bla bla bla, as long as you mention who did it first.
I have no intentions of hiding who did it, and I don't want to claim this track my own.
Don't worry, I said butter smooth, compared to what it was before, like I said, it is still nordschleife, and it's not flat.
There is still lots of bumps and stuff, but they aren't related to the mesh resolution now. It is quite high actually, if you look at it in my other thread.
I'm not a long time follower of this track... I dont know it in rl, and the part you are referring to, I don't know. If it is still problematic, maybe someone after me can fix that part, or if you can give me references, maybe I can do something about it.
The mesh is already done btw
Worked on the last past full two days on this.Don't worry, it does! It's not a perfectly flat track! When I said butter smooth, I was referring to the bumps that were present before upgrading mesh, because of the low res of the mesh, these arent present anymore. But all other bumps are still there...
Don't worry, there are still tricky parts, where bumps can send you off if you aren't careful!
The mesh is already increased
Read my post At least I got it to run in dev mode.. you will see the mesh in 3dsmax last pageThere is a distinct difference between a road with 4 meter long polygons which makes you bump around all over the place like some of the lazy conversions, and a smooth surface including appropriate bumps and dips where they should be
Like I said, I was referring to the difference in the driving between the non mesh upgraded and the mesh upgraded version. All the bumps and shakes from the mesh low res is gone.
All other bumps are still present, and no elevations have been smoothed. I modified nothing except resolution.
It is still very challenging, no worry
I doubt many will complete a first lap without totalling (unless you driven that track in rf1 countless times! but again it was in rf1.. rf2 is different)
Golanv
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Pure Awesomeness mr.pleclair. Give this man everything that he needs!
...and Start learning the track folks... I want to race!
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...and Start learning the track folks... I want to race!
http://media.fastcar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/nurburgring-cornering-map-guide-download.jpg
Like I said, I was referring to the difference in the driving between the non mesh upgraded and the mesh upgraded version. All the bumps and shakes from the mesh low res is gone.
All other bumps are still present, and no elevations have been smoothed. I modified nothing except resolution.
It is still very challenging, no worry
I know, I was referring to Rocksors' post
Exactly. To build this from scratch, a full team is likely needed to produce in a reasonable time frame. But the work I'm doing now would be slowed if i worked with others, considering the amount of time I can now devote to it.
Currently uploading a video of the AI driving an F2 around Nords (well not a full lap, I tried to keep uploading time and size reasonable), without HDR.
I forgot I had HDR on on the first video, and shots, and it used the default HDR profile from ISI. The track would need an HDR profile (wink Tosch
) to look good in HDR.
Without it, it looks really good. You'll see!
Will submit once its online!
I forgot I had HDR on on the first video, and shots, and it used the default HDR profile from ISI. The track would need an HDR profile (wink Tosch
) to look good in HDR.Without it, it looks really good. You'll see!
Will submit once its online!
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Currently uploading a video of the AI driving an F2 around Nords (well not a full lap, I tried to keep uploading time and size reasonable), without HDR.
I forgot I had HDR on on the first video, and shots, and it used the default HDR profile from ISI. The track would need an HDR profile (wink Tosch
Without it, it looks really good. You'll see!
Will submit once its online!
You have my full attention.
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baked bean
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Great job dude, would love to test for you,i got pretty good connection to host too if need be
@pleclair
Do you plan to correct all the errors with the layout or just leave it as it is in the original track?
Do you plan to correct all the errors with the layout or just leave it as it is in the original track?
@ pleclair: Great! Now all my concerns are raised out. As I said this was not meant to offend you or the the great work you've done so far, I just wanted to ask some questions on topics that I though could spoil the whole thing. It's really great to see you doing all this work and the speed of your progress!
Concerning the Schwedenkreuz this link could help:
Link
If you watch the onboard front camera video you should see what I mean. After that long fast part you are comming up to a hill and afterwards slightly down to Schwedenkreuz, wheras in the Com8 Version this lefthander is up on a second hill. The GTR Evo Version is better here (watch the GMT Preview video e.g.), but I have the feeling it goes down a bit too much... something in between would probably be right.
But I know it is hard to get good reference material. That is just the one point in the com8 layout that I found was not as I see it in real races. Probably, when I'd set one of my collegues that actually do races there in front of my wheel they would find some more small inaccurracies, but that is nothing that you should mess with at the moment.
But there is still one question on the road surface. As you probably also drove the rF1 version how different is the FFB feeling of the "low mesh bumps" between rF1 and rF2? How big do you see the step in technology that ISI has done here?
Please don't be offended by my questins and keep up the good work!
Concerning the Schwedenkreuz this link could help:
Link
If you watch the onboard front camera video you should see what I mean. After that long fast part you are comming up to a hill and afterwards slightly down to Schwedenkreuz, wheras in the Com8 Version this lefthander is up on a second hill. The GTR Evo Version is better here (watch the GMT Preview video e.g.), but I have the feeling it goes down a bit too much... something in between would probably be right.
But I know it is hard to get good reference material. That is just the one point in the com8 layout that I found was not as I see it in real races. Probably, when I'd set one of my collegues that actually do races there in front of my wheel they would find some more small inaccurracies, but that is nothing that you should mess with at the moment.
But there is still one question on the road surface. As you probably also drove the rF1 version how different is the FFB feeling of the "low mesh bumps" between rF1 and rF2? How big do you see the step in technology that ISI has done here?
Please don't be offended by my questins and keep up the good work!