Select Bike Menu.

[pepete23]

Hi,

When you choice a bike, you can see the 3d model in menu. Screenshot of a mod of gp500 game.



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[Judge]

Good idea, I've been wanting this for a good while too, though it may be a bit hard to make, who knows...
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Buena idea, lo llevo queriendo un buen tiempo, pero igual hasta es un poco dificil hacerlo.. a saber.

Best regards,
Judge.

[magnusson]

or just a small pic of the png.....???

[wheels1758]

This is something I was thinking about how to do. I came up with a simple solution:

Let's take the new bike skin to be called kx250f-2010_pc.png
When the skinner created this bike, they send the .png to someone(Luiz for the 2010 kxf example) to perform a render. This render would be set up similar to DDMX's released render model, so they will all be the same. Let's call this render kx250f-2010_pc_render.png. Include both files in the .saf, or when .png's are released.

Then JLV can just make a window that displays the kx250f-2010_pc_render.png.

I dont know how tough that would be to code, but it seems fairly simple....for JLV at least

[Judge]

This is something I was thinking about how to do. I came up with a simple solution:

Let's take the new bike skin to be called kx250f-2010_pc.png
When the skinner created this bike, they send the .png to someone(Luiz for the 2010 kxf example) to perform a render. This render would be set up similar to DDMX's released render model, so they will all be the same. Let's call this render kx250f-2010_pc_render.png. Include both files in the .saf, or when .png's are released.

Then JLV can just make a window that displays the kx250f-2010_pc_render.png.

I dont know how tough that would be to code, but it seems fairly simple....for JLV at least

Thumbs up, I'd say that would be a really good way to do it, though if skinners would be able to make the render by themselves too, that would just about complete it...

[Mittocs]

It's been talk about previously and JLV basically came to the conclusion that he wants little to no load times in the menu's. An update of the menu's is greatly needed but with that comes things such as time to load the image's and when you think about it, yes it would be nice but would you really want to wait 3 seconds + depending on your internet to load each skin you try to look at. With all the skins and tracks we have, that's a lot of loading.

[Judge]

If it were to work as wheels said before the loading time wouldn't have anything to do with Internet cause the Render would be inside the .saf of the model-bike...Though yeah even that way it would probably take a lot to load...

[remdog]

i don't think many people would care about the loading time because as long as they could see the model they were picking, it would save time rather than going into a new race to look at the skins on the bike.

[Kawasakis]

Now all skin's .png's is ~ 2048x2048 ,so yeah,it would take time to load,but if everyone who release skins could put in .saf .png of skin and .jpg pic with like 300x300 rezolution,it wouldnt be that big tho,but it would load faster.

[wheels1758]

The render could be something like 640x480 or so. Maybe JLV could include a preview button so those that didnt want to worry about load times didnt have to. But the way i see it, 1 second to load an image is better that the time it takes to load a track in order to see if the skin you chose is what you want to use!

[JohnnyMac]

Menu Load times lol. It would take milliseconds to display 1 bike/rider combo in 3d window vs the current shananagins for me to preview a bike/skin in 3d...

- Main menu click/pick a skin file from list displayed,
click new race (full race loads!),
pause/go back to main menu,
go to demo playback menu & click default (demo loads!),
pause demo,
move camera around to preview 1 skin!

Now, regarding the idea of a 2d picture. Plz no. MCM1 had 3d preview, no reason to go back further then 1990 with 2d pics. Besides, the idea of displaying a pic of the skin as it was rendered by skinner in model program would eliminate 100% of all skins currently out from being previewed as they dont have one.

[Lyp3]

That's quite like a basic need... I'm tired of launching a new race everytime I want to see and pick a new gear.

It takes so much time that I rarely change my gear, because of that.

If there were a rendering method (as Piboso did in GPbikes) or at least a picture of the gear and bike, it would be really better.

Jlv , please... I think that it's the most important thing to change at this time...

[Lyp3]

I did a montage to give some ideas

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Maybe is it possible to use a render method based on the graphics engine to get something like that ?

Could be really great...

[tommyz21]

i like this idea but maybe a small pic and only if you add the png orrr maybe just shows the template so you dont have to add any more pngs