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

Twins27 Wrote:
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> Just a question: What do you mean exactly by "make
> the tga transparent " ?
> The tutorial is perfect, thank Maverick, great job
> !

It means you should edit the alpha layer so the texture won't show up. I'll edit the part that says that, and make it mroe clear.

any help?
3DEd 13.5b keeps stopping with a ati dll error message.
i have tried 3 different drivers and it doesnt work

Catalyst 5.6 works for me.
Catalyst 5.4 used to give me the error message.

Has anyone got a good track layout pic of Phoenix 1991?


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cant this be sticky?

Berger_Fan Wrote:
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> Has anyone got a good track layout pic of Phoenix
> 1991?
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> __________________________
> Greg Alexander - Webmaster of:
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> A Member of the GP4 1991 Mod Team


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For my first attempt at track-editing, I used Marc Aarts' GP3 Trackmap :



Not 100% accurate but pretty close.
It was the only hi-res trackmap I could find.

great tutorial, is there away to load a picture for the background to work from? that would help

kizz

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Not yet, but as Maverick explained, all you have to do is:

-convert your trackmap to tga format.
-Create an horizontal object in your .gp4 file.
-Put your tga trackmap on the object (as a texture).
-Scale, rotate and displace your trackmap until it is right where you want it to be and start modeling.

ah cheers

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and mind the scale!!
Whitout noticing you might be building a mini or mega circuit (i once had this, not very handy )

LOL !

You should have seen my first attempt at building Paul Ricard.
It was like a Go-Kart circuit.

But if you build your track on top of another track, it's easy to compare the different scales.

maverick , when i try to move the first pit sector to where i want on track. i click on displace and try to move but it stays in a fixed position & just stretches or bends? what am i doing wrong???

There's sector 1 and sector 0.
First you have to move sector 1 (stretch), then move sector 0 (un-stretch).

I can move the pitlane but it is always above my track?? Can I lower or rise it?

When in displacement mode, you can lower/rise you pitlane (or track) with your rightmouse button. you can also edit the zvalues in the sector position property

Somebody tell me the following things--

I originally created an oval from this track, but it was unplayable, I started on the grass and the car did flips and all kinds of crazy stuff.

So i decided to start again knock out the first chicane, but when i drive through the place, i can still see the chicane, even though i cant drive there. I can go staright on but the car dips down slightly and back to normal. Any suggestions?

[mars.walagata.com]

That is a link to my DAT



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/27/2005 02:27PM by JC_1507.

That you still can see the chicane is normal. That's all just graphical The DAT decicdes where you can drive. That's my opinion anyway I'm not an expert.

JC:

You need to learn some basics before modifying a track.

The dat file is just the physical side of the track. Modifying the dat doesn't modify how the track "looks".
It's the .gp4 file that contains all the info about texture mapping on the track.

Jup JC, you should read the tutorial once more i guess, you skipped the grafical part
And whiel you're at it, donwload the new version.
Minor improments in some explanations, for instance pitlane modeling, and some more typos fixed. Keep giving comments, it can only make it better.

grab the new version here: [maverick.dynasoft.nl]