Upcoming Tracks and Track Objects #2

[AWood]

Still wayyy too much work left :/

Can i please have your HUD?

Shifter, Pitboard, Tach are so sexy

[checkerz]

Just kind of repeating, it's checks track. He just did visuals if I'm not mistaken.

Warrior's original base rescaled and much of it was re-built. Gio hooking it up with rough/ruts/visuals. I'm sure I'll give it finishing touches too at some point.

[mxrewind665]

No offense, but I don't think your version would be better.

If it doesn't come out good then I guess they wont use it. I have improved quite alot since my last creation. I race MX338 pretty much every week. Worth a shot.

[760Liam]

When someone does make Southwick, can they make it really muddy and stormy? Because last year it was pretty roughed up..

[mxrewind665]

When someone does make Southwick, can they make it really muddy and stormy? Because last year it was pretty roughed up..

I will make two versions if I do the track.

[paulr093]

dont make it, like jones said your version will probably not be better but possibly worse. no hard feelings.

[Jones221]

I took it easy, that was just mean. #motosportkids..

[paulr093]

i know him very well jones.

[Brina927]

I took it easy, that was just mean. #motosportkids..

"#benice"

[mxrewind665]

yeah he does know me. Maybe I will attempt it in the future after I truely master the art of Track creation. But my newest project is coming along pretty dam good.

[giopanda]

Just kind of repeating, it's checks track. He just did visuals if I'm not mistaken.

Warrior's original base rescaled and much of it was re-built. Gio hooking it up with rough/ruts/visuals. I'm sure I'll give it finishing touches too at some point.

track will need checkerz' magic touch at the end

[DJ99X]

Such a prick placing all the fences in Blender. Got a good method worked out now though. Still a few spots where its not lined up properly

[giopanda]

Oh god am i the only one who's not able to place banners in blender?
I'm having such a hard time trying to figure out what's wrong..and i guess haggqvist is getting tired of my continuous questions..
How did you managed to place them dj?
Could you hit me up on msn please?

[rafagas]

While I'm waiting for some objects to be finished and release Alcarras, I've started the second round of the spanish championship. This track is called Oliva. Still on early stages but I wanted to show you how is looking so far.

[DJ99X]

Oh god am i the only one who's not able to place banners in blender?
I'm having such a hard time trying to figure out what's wrong..and i guess haggqvist is getting tired of my continuous questions..
How did you managed to place them dj?
Could you hit me up on msn please?

You weren't there on MSN, so here's a quick tute on the way I do it:

1) Set up your disp in blender (I'm assuming you can do that?). Height should be in the Z direction.

2) Make a new object, with its centre in the centre of the disp (Z position isn't important just yet)

3) In this object, take a vertex from any object (eg a plane) and duplicate it.

4) Turn on "snap during transform" and set the snap element to face. Have it set to center. This feature is the little magnet thats on the same bar where you select edit mode, object mode etc.

5) Move the vertex to where you want to start the fences (looking from above). The vertex will snap to the height of the terrain disp.

6) Extrude the vertex to form an edge. The new vertex will also snap to the disp height. Keep doing this, but keep the edge length consistent (I made mine about 20ft). You can tell the extrusion length from the number in brackets under the 3D window. You should now have the bottom edge of your fences drawn around your terrain, and they should all follow the terrain height.

7) Duplicate another vertex, and place it near the object centre. Extrude it to make a edge that crosses the object centre. This will be a dummy fence to help get the height right in game. Now, turn off the snapping feature.

Select all of your edges, and extrude it up in the Z direction a desired length (I made mine 5ft). Select all of the faces, and recalculate the normals.

9) Select a single face in your fence row. Unwrap as 'reset'. Make sure the unwrapping is orientated in the right direction. The unwrapping will take up the entire UV space, and won't be in the same shape as the fence, but that isn't an issue yet.

10) Select the rest of the faces in the fence line (ctrl+l). Unwrap, and select "Follow active quads". Choose edge length mode as "even". The fence row will now be unwrapped, and it will extend beyond the uv space in the x direction. So, if you have a repeated texture, each face will show the exact same texture.

11) Duplicate the current fence, and flip its normals. Scale its uv mapping by -1 in the x direction. So now the back faces will show the exact same as the front faces.

12) Select all of the faces, and shift everything up or down in the z direction, so the base of the dummy fence is aligned with the object centre in the z direction. You can now delete the dummy fence.

13) Apply the edgesplit modifier with an angle of 0. This will make it so the fences dont have smooth shading.

14) Export your model. Set the position to be the centre of your map, with a height of 0. Set the rotation to -12.57. Voila.

Of course, you will want to break the model into separate sections to use different textures.

If this is hard to understand, I'll redo this tute with pics at a later date.