GP4 Track Editing - new new thread

Nope, you'll have the half texture in one face. I dont know if you can move the texture in the face, if you can, will be possible to map the first half at one polygon and the second half at another polygon.

At my track, I exported the bank to 3DS, remapped it and broke at various parts (to allows GP4 fade it when far). I got a very reallistic bank. Today I'll work at the verges.

Patrick, some news at my friend's track?

Sorry, no news yet.

I'm working on a startinglight editor at the moment (today). When i'm ready with it i will continue with your friend's track.

Thank you Patrick, have some specific place where we can follow your work?

@Auradrummer: Zeppelin is right too (at the condition that the second face share the vertice with 0.5 and have the next vertice to 1).

I believe that a drawing will be easier to understand.
It's obvious for me at it's the base of the 3D art but I understand that not everyone is used to these coordinates.

@Lo2K: Ah ok, I think I understood you. But how somebody can do it with three squares,for example?

Simple:
first vertice : 0
second : 0.33
third: 0.66
fourth: 1

Cheers, although I don't have time to sift through 1087 vertices and change everything to 0.5 to get the effect I'm after. What I tend to do is just remove a certain number of vertices to get a certain mapping effect. Actually it's what I've done for getting "close" track land, and my tree making method

-->Lo2K: Now I understood 100% what you said. I didn't used this method, I remap at Lightwave. This is the reason I was a bit confused.

We've still got a problem of Norisring :-D Graphics arent working. I putted all graphics, but it didnt work. Can someone help us?

Thanks in advance.

graphics aren't working....?? post a screenshot & a description...to see whats wrong....

@ lo2k..for the rest of us scratching our heads ...how about that drawing you said may help......thanks....

Vertex mapping! Don't tell me you don't edit face vertices :P

Well, I will give you links as there's more interesting material on the net than I could produce and furthermore it will also provide slight different explanations on how works texture mapping.

Here is a simple one which explains the standard case, texture is applied entirely on a quad (2 faces). Note that next pages on this site are also giving infos on tiling modes or filtering.

Here is one which shows a case when you need to display 3*3 textures on a quad (you can forget about the last chapter about s,t coords).

Hehe, here is a nice one for carmakers who want to knows why environment reflexions on their cars are so messy when they build rectangular faces instead of square ones

That's all for now.





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only vertices work i do is in scenery knitting & joining...moving deleting faces....placement etc....

Well, the little box with 1's and 0's in it is your mapping box and I've been fiddling around with it for a while, but I never really knew how to edit it properly...

For those who have still havn't understand anything or simply for those who want to better catch what we are speaking about, I just made a quick tutorial to explain everything, taking a simple track advert example over several applications.

I hope it will help you more than it will confuse you

lets have a look at it here.

I'm sorry for any type mistake but I just ended it and it's 1:30 in the morning here, so I won't re-read it before tomorrow. See you later





Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/14/2005 01:46AM by Lo2k.

Thanks Laurent, that's very useful.

EDIT: Just read the tutorial - it's very good explained and everything is clear to me





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/14/2005 12:27PM by Ruboy.

Thank you Laurent! I think my problems maybe end to that

Is it possible to do something like this at the .col file? I mean a simple way, because I would need to subdivide faces countless times to get this result




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

@PrBlanco: well, no, there's no easy way to make this.

Oh, and I just fixed an error in the last example of my quick mapping guide when using 2 quads and negative values. Sorry, I was fooled myself





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/14/2005 03:59PM by Lo2k.