TUTORIAL Build your FIRST track - BASIC GUIDE

[LockeNessMotorsports]

A quick question to everyone do you have a visual and physical of everything? curbs etc. I'm leaving what I have on PARC but my next track not sure how to go about that. I have a visual and physical road but my walls are just physical no visual model aswell to them at all.

 

[Kibbutz]

A quick question to everyone do you have a visual and physical of everything? curbs etc. I'm leaving what I have on PARC but my next track not sure how to go about that. I have a visual and physical road but my walls are just physical no visual model aswell to them at all.

you can leave simple walls physical, but if you got guardrails or fences or similar it's better to have an invisible wall

 

[LockeNessMotorsports]

@Johnr777 So i found out how to carve out the map via boolean on my particular mesh it's actually not a mess and works fine however, one thing the verts still need alligning slightly so they don't sink the track into the ground and I'm just thinking there's surely got to be a faster way than individually selecting verts and moving them.

So far I've tried soft selection but it doesn't work some still come up too far

 

[Johnr777]

For max you can use a script that moves the vertices from one object to another, all in one shot... for Maya, no idea

 

[LockeNessMotorsports]

For max you can use a script that moves the vertices from one object to another, all in one shot... for Maya, no idea

There is a snapping tool and all sorts of snapping vert snapping and so on however, it's still snapping under the terrain might need further investigation.

 

[luchian]

If you work in max, maybe something like this ? (I did not try it, I use Blender).

 

[LockeNessMotorsports]

If you work in max, maybe something like this ? (I did not try it, I use Blender).

Yeah I've used that, it's conform in maya aswell however you still need to adjust verts so it doesn't sink into the terrain if you understand what i mean. Conform is great one of the best things ever for aligning aha.

I'm basically looking for a subtle tool I can move multiple vertices at once but not too harsh that the track is floating in areas.

 

[Kibbutz]

a little update, I solved the texture problem with the UV mapping! I can finally move on thanks to you guys

ops, wrong screen

 

[LockeNessMotorsports]

So i figured out my issue well not fixed it but now I see the land is extruded from the track so you can snap the track to the land. The issue with PARC is the data that came from RTB is triangulated so it's been a bugger to work with from day one.

 

[LockeNessMotorsports]

So i started putting the terrain in on off the track edge, need to clean up some topology but I'm still learning this aha. I think it looks ok.

 

[LockeNessMotorsports]

Done , finally figured it out it snaps wonderfully, just need to do the other side tommorow

 

[Kibbutz]

since I'm waiting for buildings to come, I started working on my second track, the historic Cesana - Sestriere uphill. Here's a video I made to test the heights and layout for some real drivers who are going to race there in a couple of months. This will definitely be finished before the city track will reach 50%, hopefully before the actual race as I'd like to present it there.

 

[fizzybanana]

I'm having problems importing a .fbx into the editor. It says the model has 102119 vertices but as far as I can see in Blender my object has only 31940 vertices. I have removed doubles, assigned a material and I'm only exporting this 1 object.

Any ideas?

 

[wmialil]

I'm having problems importing a .fbx into the editor. It says the model has 102119 vertices but as far as I can see in Blender my object has only 31940 vertices. I have removed doubles, assigned a material and I'm only exporting this 1 object.

Any ideas?

Try smooth shading, think it reduces vert count. In edit mode, select all and then in the tab on the left hand side go to "shading" which i think is the third tab down and set faces to smooth.

 

[Willy Wale]

I'm having problems importing a .fbx into the editor. It says the model has 102119 vertices but as far as I can see in Blender my object has only 31940 vertices. I have removed doubles, assigned a material and I'm only exporting this 1 object.

Any ideas?

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The limit is on coordinates so it includes the 'physical' vertex but also in parallel each vertex will have UV coordinates. If you look at the estimates of tris in the top of the window you have 51,096. I have found that this is normally close to half of the editor's reported number.

If you reduce the object's tris (Blender estimate) to around 30k it should work.

WW

 

[fizzybanana]

Try smooth shading, think it reduces vert count.

That did the trick! Thanks a lot.

@luchian This should be in the first post somewhere. Not obvious that all objects need smooth shading before exporting to .fbx!

 

[luchian]

The real limitation is the mesh size (must be <65k values). But did not know that smooting can reduce that number, thanks .

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[wmialil]

For the tree shader to work correctly does every single separate tree need to be its own object?

I'm not sure my computer can handle it!

 

[luchian]

When you model them yes. But after, if using correct naming, they will automatically be grouped by the AC Editor.

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[Kibbutz]

I'm back with a question for you guys! I'm working on a side road transition for my mountain road. What i want to achieve is to give the terrain part of the side road a transparency so that it will blend with my terrain. Is it possible? The squared part on the screen would be the transparent one

https://imgur.com/R80Kh7C