TUTORIAL Build your FIRST track - BASIC GUIDE

[William Riker]

Thanks, actually that is the case i'm having trouble with, can a wall plane work both ways?

 

[LilSKi]

Thanks, actually that is the case i'm having trouble with, can a wall plane work both ways?

Only if there is separation between the faces. The car cannot hit the reverse side of a vertex normal or it will stick.

 

[Pixelchaser]

question?, what about containing everything in side a wall object. for example. we drive inside a collision box area or defined corridor so to speak.

 

[LilSKi]

question?, what about containing everything in side a wall object. for example. we drive inside a collision box area or defined corridor so to speak.

As long as you never can hit the backside of a normal you can technically do whatever you want. But you may be wasting PHY calculations having a collision box over you. Usually just a very tall wall to keep you in play is all you need.

 

[kntkatt]

hi fellas , im trying to vreate a basic track to teach myself how to do it.I have my basic track working in game & can drive around it.what i am struggling with is the timing does anybody have a link to a guide on creating the timing points in 3dsmax ?

many thanks

 

[luchian]

They can be anything. A box for example. What's important it's their naming.
Just create them, position where you wish them to be, and name them. It will work.

 

[kntkatt]

ive tried that still doesnt seem to work , ive made dummy boxes & named them accordingly do they have to be joined together somehow ?

 

[LilSKi]

The line goes across the X axis of the object. Both objects should be oriented the same with say Z up, Y forward, and X across.

 

[kntkatt]

sorry for being a total idiot but what do you use to draw the line ?

 

[LilSKi]

sorry for being a total idiot but what do you use to draw the line ?

You don't draw any line. Just the X axis makes an imaginary line.

 

[kntkatt]

many thanks the problem was i had a few textures not asigned in ks editor . Ive decided to convert a track from rfactor2 (just for learning purposes ) , when i import the track into kseditor it looks very over exposed , looks fine in 3dsmax any ideas ?

 

[LilSKi]

3dsimed screws up the ambient and diffuse settings on everything. Set ambient and diffuse to .3 and 0 for specular as a starting point.

 

[kntkatt]

many thanks lilski took a while to do it but did the trick , on another note the white lines at the side of the track dont have a very big draw distance is there a way around it ?

 

[luchian]

You would need to separate them, or create a new a mesh that comes on top only for the lines. This would increase the draw distance.

 

[William Riker]

Hi!, question about shadows, i'm currently working on bushes, and i have some issues.
First, how do i get rid of the squared shadow? and how can i solve the problem of the self castered shadow from behind?
I could notice in Kunos tracks that bushes have all their normals pointing up, so i did that also.

Any tips?? thanks!

 

[LilSKi]

You need to use the kstree shader to stop self casting shadows. As far as the square it is the ksalpharef setting that adjusts this.

 

[William Riker]

Got it, thanks!!

 

[Pixelchaser]

so..... do we know what BOH means in the editor yet.

my theory is blur over horizon ?

 

[LilSKi]

so..... do we know what BOH means in the editor yet.

my theory is blur over horizon ?

Never touched it. Not sure I have ever noticed it change anything when I put numbers in there. So I guess that means I have touched it

 

[kntkatt]

im also working with tree's , if you go 1 side of the tree it looks fine but go the other & it totally dissapears any ideas ?