W.I.P. Vancouver City Circuit 95 Layout Lidar version

[JrC]

I made some headway finally although it was messy. I have the elevation and camber at this point I believe. The solid portion is the Lidar data I had to export.

and then the mesh build

Lots of work to do as part of the mesh is obviously missing with the dome covering it etc.

 

[JrC]

Looking at trying to get the road mesh finished this week. Im going to have to do some work to get the heights around BC Place but Ive got a few ideas.
Ive been watching the 95 and 97 races on youtube to see if the elevation looks good and so far it seems decent.

Here is the drop into turn 3.

and the elevation change on the mesh

 

[JrC]

No Chicanes or pit road yet

but the mesh should be close to the testing phase

 

[fughettaboutit]

No Chicanes or pit road yet

but the mesh should be close to the testing phase

Maybe you already plan to do this: cut physical active meshes (wall, road) into pieces not longer than 500m (or even 250m) ... for performance reasons

 

[Johnr777]

Maybe you already plan to do this: cut physical active meshes (wall, road) into pieces not longer than 500m (or even 250m) ... for performance reasons

Yeah, learned this recently too!

But been told to keep it even shorter, 200m max

 

[JrC]

Not to worry on that @fughettaboutit and @Johnr777


I did that and then i got a chance to drive it and its bumpy but not undrivable... i did separate it quite a bit but not to 200m... even getting the Lidar to a mesh was a major triumph for me personally... i got tied up in another project but thats likely a good thing because @maruto was digging into cloud compare and i may do another full export... a couple of reason is that i want to get it right the first time and i also need to export a few other things including the roads and surfaces for the 98 layout and 99 layout which are different.
I also was watching a few races on YT and i need to add some of the run off areas so i might as well use the lidar for that... Zanardi ran off a long way in the T3 hairpin but was able to rejoin the track by looping around and then going up another part of the road back on track... so that needs to be there...

I learned a lot in that export but I think it may be wise to look at it again.