The Ultimate Track Editing Guide V1

Another long hard slog and a big dive into 3d editor and the workings of GP4 bring you this, my (possible) final piece of work toward track editing.

It's a pretty complete guide, it doesn't tell you everything, it's meant to get you started on each part of the track editing process, and give you hints and tips + shortcuts to fine tune your track and make it exactly how you want it to be.

It's exclusive to realgpx, so please don't upload it anywhere else, if you can't access realgpx for some reason, write it down here, and I'm sure someone will be kind enough to email it to you

Remember, this isn't the guide that makes you create the bestest track ever made for GP4, it's just gonna get you started

Link to access: [www.realgpx.com]

Enjoy, and here's hoping we see some fantastic new tracks from you guys
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Link to the recent track editing discussion thread [www.grandprixgames.org]
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Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 02/14/2007 11:25AM by mortal.

Thanks zeppelin101!
Very good job!

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Thanks Zeppelin101 and good luck for your future projects.

thanks tom...this guide.. was a long time in the making....i agree about lo2k's /mavericks /schutt1e's early works inspiring so many of us to make our own tracks...when i started to try this track editing thingy there were no guides..just schrolling thru posts/sending pm's to get the info...thanks to many...../mavericks guide being a huge /huge help....i gained the knowledge needed...still learning....with a guide you still need the time/interest/commitment/to make a working ..track...i had many/many/hours experimenting with 3d editor to find out what did what.....i always said make a basic fantasy track at first to gain the skills needed for the more presise real life tracks.........this guide is a good starting point but i'd say read mavericks guide also....thanks...............

Very nice job, mate... Finally



In near time I´ll publish a guide to create smooth elevations too...

I think sharing knowledge is very important to GP4. And I thank you so many people on this forum... You´re one of them, be sure.


Cheers!

you would be a perfect example of sharing knowledge gildoorf also...you have worked with many on you track projects to great success.....



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/17/2006 07:50PM by jimbob1.

Woo, just read the complete tutorial

It's great. Thanks for the effort Maybe more people will have a try on track editing now.

zeppelin101 thanks a lot for this usefull guide! I'll post a news on gp4italia now but not the guide as you want
Thanks a gaint to you, Lo2k, and everyone who contribuite to track editing knowloedge

@Ruboy: That's the plan

@jimbob: Damn right mate

@gildoorf: We aint gettin nowhere if we don't share what we know

@ttm: Thanks man, looking forward to your melboune update, look promising

Thank you, Zeppelin!

This will certainly be helpful for lost newbies like me.

@Tony:

Maybe you could add the link for this guide to the 'The GP4 Tracks Thread - Sites, Links & Editing'-sticky-thread.

I can't wait to read this, should be a great work. Now that RealGPx works for me it's fine


My unfinished tracks: [www.grandprixgames.org]
Send bug reports and track editing questions to f1virtualblog@gmail.com

Hey Tom, as soon as I set my new pc set up (ordered btw, thanks for your help!) I'm gonna sit down and go through this to see if I can finish Speed Village.


I'm gutted I didn't get a mention in the credits though hehe looks great mate



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/19/2006 04:01AM by JamesM.

Just read it, great! Great job, Tom. I was looking for something you could have missed, but haven't found anything


My unfinished tracks: [www.grandprixgames.org]
Send bug reports and track editing questions to f1virtualblog@gmail.com

Great stuff, thanks a lot!!

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Lloyd! I thought you died or were abducted by aliens or something

Zeppelin101 may i translate this very nice Guide into Spanish and publish it?

Cheers.

looks ace mate

Can you add....


That CROWD objects added with "FULL" in the object name will hide free practices. Same as the grand stand seats (forgot how it's named at the moment) will hide during grand prix's.

I know that NTREE and FTREE are different, because FTREE will not show reflections in wet weather conditions. NTREE does. This might be the same for the NBUILD FBUILD, but never tested it.
There is somethings similar with the guardrails...

It's been a long time since it tested these things, so you might want to test it yourself to make sure.

There are much more things to find out, maybe i will get back at this testing things...

Hehe James....nah i didn't just snowed under with uni work...its a bit rubbish but hey :p all over in a month

I then intend to take full advantage of this tutorial

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