How to build a track in 60 minutes [v0.51]

hmm, ok, I understand.

Thanks to Maverick my cc-line now works, and I've sorted out the .gp4 file etc. But I have a few questions

The cars are going through the barriers. I know this is a fault of the cc-line, but shouldn't they still crash?

The shadows dissapear on the banking, is there anyway to stop this?

And a bit different, but when I exported the 3ds file to ZM, I couldn't see the track. THe list of parts came up, but none of the views ahd the track in. Its not a problem atm, but may be in the future. Should it show up, is it that normal?

THanks again

Go Alesi Wrote:
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> Thanks to Maverick my cc-line now works, and I've
> sorted out the .gp4 file etc. But I have a few
> questions
>
> The cars are going through the barriers. I know
> this is a fault of the cc-line, but shouldn't they
> still crash?

Nope, the ccline seems to overrule everything, even if you let them drive through the grass or sand they will still drive as if they where on tarmac.

> The shadows dissapear on the banking, is there
> anyway to stop this?

Hm, shadows shouldn't disapear on the banking, but i havent seen much banked tracks, so maybe it's something for lo2k to look at?

> And a bit different, but when I exported the 3ds
> file to ZM, I couldn't see the track. THe list of
> parts came up, but none of the views ahd the track
> in. Its not a problem atm, but may be in the
> future. Should it show up, is it that normal?

Well it is visible, but it is problably to small to see so you should zoom in, or you are to close and have to zoom out, or it's to the sides, it's definatly there.

Thanks. The shadows seem to dissapear only on the inside (ie lowest part) There's a strip of about 1 and a bit car widths on the inside where the shadows dissapear. The car may drive partly over this part, and so only the shadows on that part of the car will go. Maybe it's something to do with the banking type, although I haven't edited it's properties. All I did was add banking values.

I don't understand something from your Tutorial. It sais: "What you do is place you dat and gp4 in the same directory. Open up the gp4 with a hexeditor, and make everything invisible like explained earlier. Now open up the gp4 file with 3deditor." This is for making a real layout. But when I put my Dat en GP4 file in one folder. What do I have to do next? If I open the GP4 file, only that opens and if I open the Dat file only that opens...

if you open the gp4 both should open, you can see that because both the graphical and physical tab are there.

fulcoboy,

IF both the dat and gp4 files ARE in the same directory, then open the gp4 file with 3deditor and both files WILL open

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I'm against sigpics

Owkee, i've found it Tnx guys, one more question though, is there a way to just like cut a piece of a track instead of almost the whole track?

what do you mean? if you want to do something like select an amount of sectors and do copy/paste or similar, then that can't be done

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I'm against sigpics

For now, either you delete one sector, either you delete all following sectors, there's no in between.

@L02K regarding track objects

is there a way to delete multiple objects in the scenes please? currently i cant multiselect and one by one is slow!


Jenson drives it like he owns it; Lewis drives it like he stole it

what you can do is delete a whole scene, otherwise, delete objects one by one... there's no other way so far

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I'm against sigpics

hmmm... but the purpose of scenes is that vital?

or is it just as a cake is divided into icing, sponge and jam?

spose it wouldnt matter if all objects are in one scene as another, just easier to separate and locate then?


Jenson drives it like he owns it; Lewis drives it like he stole it

i don't really know, but i'd rather delete objects one by one, yes it could be long and tiring, but maybe deleting a whole scene could make your track crash, but give it a try, if it doesn't crash, then you're fine

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I'm against sigpics

no crash :D


Jenson drives it like he owns it; Lewis drives it like he stole it

I'm sorry for bringing this up again, but I can't find the description of how making all objects of the .gp4 invisible.
I know that I've read it about two weeks ago, but I don't know whether in a tutorial or in a post in this forum. I've serached for it but anyhow I can't recover it. Maybe I am too tired





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/20/2005 12:26PM by Ruboy.

Cheers Maverick, that is a really useful guide..Cheers!

Can i just ask why is it considered more difficult to edit a track?

This also may sound stupid, but how to i start making my own track? All i can do is open up other tracks...

>>This also may sound stupid,
>>but how to i start making my own track?
>>All i can do is open up other tracks...

Don't worry, we were all newbies one day
As explained in Maverick's tutorial, you have to open an existing track and delete every sector after sector 2 or 3.
You can't create a track from scratch (although I feel that it will soon be possible).

>>Can i just ask why is it considered more difficult to edit a track?

Original GP4 tracks have many variables and unknowns. If you edit just one bit, you might have a lot of problems with bin files, col files, cc-line (everything that is related to track sectors).
I tried making a Monaco 1986 chicane and I failed. I ended up remaking Monaco from scratch to make it work (only the physical part of course )