*****GP4 Track editing - The new thread*****

look at the image. the tex is generated by texresizer 2.2 and is a dxt1 no trasparency texture.

Laurent, about pit sectors limit you talked about in your mail, i don't think mine is out of range, it has 191 sectors, while the original one has 189, so it's almost the same, anyway, i could cut off 4 or 5 sectors, but as you might have read, Dave helped me and i got the track working (just the pitlane bin issue).

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I'm against sigpics

the strange thing is paco, i have no pitlane bin problem at all with your track :?

it's not a texture thing, it's the object. The verges and the fences are comming through the object. It seems some of the generated objects. Try recalculating...

how big are the fence & verge objects? I never generated them myself, maybe the are too big or some of the options are set wrong...
Laurend, dave any input on this one?

erwin_78 Wrote:
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> it's not a texture thing, it's the object. The
> verges and the fences are comming through the
> object. It seems some of the generated objects.
> Try recalculating...
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> how big are the fence & verge objects? I never
> generated them myself, maybe the are too big or
> some of the options are set wrong...
> Laurend, dave any input on this one?


my suspects are also on verge and bank objects, they are made on one big piece as 3de export dat to 3ds make. i'll try to unificate all the verge objects in one then split it in parts if needed. in the original tracks there aren't verge,verge2 and bank objects but all the trackside is made only of one object.

the fences and verges cover the entire track, so they are quite big. I've never had any real problems with them ingame actually, new objects were always a bust to get them showing ingame, but the generated ones always show up quite nice. But i've never had many new objects between my own verges and fences.
Have you ever had any problem with bahrain objects in terms of visibility erwin?

@Paco: Yep, my bad, I thought limit I used was 150 but in fact it is 300 so it should no be the reason for your trouble.

@SHutt1e & Erwin: Hmm, yes. Maybe Texresizer does not convert dxt5 to dxt1 files properly, but anyway, fact that objects are track length is not the best for Z-buffer computations (That would be a reason to slice objects as you asked me, Shutt1e).
You can try to slice the banks just for the area around where bridge advert becomes invisible on your shot and see if it helps...

@Shutt1e: bridge shadow is not projected on the track banks, is that due to the .gp4 shadow object you copied or is this still a .col trouble ?

Thanks Maverick! I followed your instructions and now the game does not freeze any more after quitting

But I have another problem. I've been trying for one hour but I have not managed to solve it

I expected the textures to follow the physical track surface. The tarmac of my pit entrace and exit is under the grass texture of the track banks. I've lowerd the track banks so that normally they pitlane should not be beneath any more. But anyhow nothing changed. I have also tried on a track sector without pitlane by creating some kind of pothole but the textures haven't moved. I've also created new bins, cols, and gp4 files but it had no success

This is how it should be (texture is beneath the car and on bank):


My problem (texture is elevated):





What have I forgotten to do?







Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/23/2005 01:31PM by Ruboy.

are you calculating track pittch, cc-cars pitch and direction? i don't know if that's the solution. also, make sure you generate a .col file

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I'm against sigpics

if you generate a new gp4 after editing the banks the textures should move with them, dont forget to delete the old ones out of the gp4.

solved. all the tracksides must be sliced as the tarmac and in the TRACK class.

Great...hmm, fences are still over the bridge display.
No, don't tell me I have to slice fences and rails too !?...

well, better you than us :+

In other words, I have to sacrifice myself for the track builders lazyness





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/23/2005 09:26PM by Lo2k.

Lo2k Wrote:
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> In other words, I have to sacrifice myself for the
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<Maverick> Wrote:
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> if you generate a new gp4 after editing the banks
> the textures should move with them, dont forget to
> delete the old ones out of the gp4.
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Yep, I had mixed up the files. Everything is working fine now
cc-line also works - just did a 10-lap-race

But another problem has appeared which I have been trying to solve several times till now. When I add JipMapping in order to get split lines and pit lines onto the tarmac they never appear, neither on original tracks nor on my created testtrack. I've copied the correct values for the appropriate sectors and after that I've created the .bin-files. But I still haven't managed to get them visible What should I do?

> In other words, I have to sacrifice myself for the track builders lazyness
what else is new?
no just kidding... you just did it wrong the first time, so now you have to fix it

@Erwin:
So another one: If I did nothing, I couldn't did it wrong





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/24/2005 12:01PM by Lo2k.

ARRRGH. I've spent hours moving these dran track segments around for the Turkey Track. I know someone else is working on it, but I'm impatient.


I tried to do this with the image in the backdrop and everything was going well, until I tried to run the new track. Dies immediatly. I've placed all flags, but have not worked the CC line yet. just wanted to make sure the track loaded. but it wont.
I wonder if one of you geniouses could look at my .dat file and see what I've done wrong?
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Many thanks to you people making these mods. I check this forum every day for the latest in GP4. The track editing is frikking AWSOME fun.

Thanks for any info you can provide.

Schaller

pitlane sector 94 change the "new gp4 cmd" flag to the "pits end" flag (it changed after the tutorial was made, i do mention it, but i guess you overlooked it )