Track Help

Hi, i'm new to making tracks and since it seems there are alot of track makers here..maybe someone can help me.

So far i've done the layout : track, pitlane and the pitlane commands. When i load the track it works fine.

I'm now onto the cc-line..and well im having a few problems with it. For some reason..no matter what i try, i can never get the right angle for the cc-line to go round the corner..it always ends up going waaay to wide or having a sudden change of position in the middle of the section.

Can anyone help me with this?

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/03/2005 08:14PM by Wapido.

hi, well i always take a look from a original track, compare your cornors with other in a original track, than take that value, off course it is not 100% perfect but than you can try a bit lower or bit higher, good luck with it

ps: great track

With cc-line you just have to experiment with values. Normally, for a tight hairpin you want a value under 10,000, and then for long sweeping corners, multiple cc-lines that either widen out, tighten up

About that pitlane, how long is it?

I wasn't sure about the size of the pitlane...i kinda like the way it starts before the main straight and a few corners earlier. It's about 140 sectors i think, so yeh its kinda big and thx for the tips



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/03/2005 09:03PM by Wapido.

A tip though, perhaps remove the "kink"? It would make for a smoother pitlane

which part? the bit on the corner..or on the main straight?

Why not a pits entry at the s/f straight? The straight is long enough, now you loose too much time if you make a pitstop.

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I'll probably play around with the pitlane abit..and move it so its not so big

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> which part? the bit on the corner..or on the main
> straight?

On the main straight, plus the pitlane wouldn't be so far from the track and then you've have a faster exit there too

How does this look for a better pitlane?

Much better. For the pitlane exit, use curve radius values of 10degrees per 10 sectors, and that way you'll have a super smooth pit exit

ok, thx for the tip

yeah that pitlane is very long. i have completed the cc-line for you wapido
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Hi again.

I've now re-made the pitlane and begun the graphical part of the track. So far i've textured the verges, banks, kerbs, fences, track and pitlane.

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I've got another problem though, i've put the .gp4, .col etc into the wad and added the .tex files i used but for some reason it just comes up without any textures at all, no track or anything.

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After you finished the changes to the pit lane on the dat file, did you create the bin files????? then re compress the track wad????

@Wapido: What method are you using to update the wad?

I recreated the .bin files when i edited the pitlane and im using easywad and unzipping and then putting the files in and then zipping it up again

Wapido Wrote:
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> I recreated the .bin files when i edited the
> pitlane and im using easywad and unzipping and
> then putting the files in and then zipping it up
> again


are you using standard tex files....put the files in ???

I've put all the tex files ive used into the wad