Overhanging ruts; is it possible?

[chuey352]

after riding shadow's new track, i thought it was one of the most realistic tracks in terms of "roughness"
but i found that it was missing something, it was overhanging ruts like real ruts. would these be possible to make?
or would the track have to be too HD? heres my example on what it would look like.

and in real life

[tyskorn]

Did you draw that rut thing in photoshop or something, or did you actually get that ingame?

[chuey352]

photoshop. its not possible to do that ingame.

[Jones221]

i would love overhanging ruts. then you could stick a corner and go

[WhMx179]

x2

[Shadow]

Not possible with the current way to define a dispmap. Since the heightfield can only have one value on any pixel, it can't tell to to the game that there's something else under a particular pixel.

[DJ99X]

Don't think any game does that

[chuey352]

i was just thinking. it would be great for the physics of the game. IMO

[Shadow]

Don't know how the terrain was made in Red Faction, but in theory it probably could've been used to make those. The game was hyped up for its destructible environment and in it you could use explosives/weapons to dig tunnels into the terrain. Now, how that kind of an engine would be suited to making mx tracks is a whole another issue though.

[DJ99X]

Haha, that game was sick

[Phathry25]

Don't think any game does that

Supercross Circuit. But it was fudged sooooo.......

Guess I just wanted to prove you wrong. Sucker!!!! lolz

[VMX_SKYmx99]

Ahhh Supercross Circuit. That game had the best career mode of any MX game ever.

[motox161]

haha for sure ... good times. DDMX, didn't you say a long time ago that you were going to try and model an over hanging rut?

[Goardy]

that would suck ass to ride because of the sphere collision system

[yzmxer608]

Don't think any game does that

Supercross Circuit. But it was fudged sooooo.......

Guess I just wanted to prove you wrong. Sucker!!!! lolz

Was a good game, still probably my favorite ps1 game. They were buggy, but I think they were made hard so you couldn't hit them constantly (AI always did though...). Maybe it could be done when wireframe based collision is used.