The Ultimate Track Editing Guide V1

Well you can trim it down later with multi-res. At the top it looks a bit dodgy. You can achieve a reasonable finish with a lot less polies than that I would think, although it depends what the terrain is like there too.

What you could do is have the first row as it is at the moment, then just weld the vertices after that to simplify it.

I'll post a pic of what I mean if you don't follow tomorrow

Hey cool, the full version of adelaide

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erwin_78 wrote:

"I know that NTREE and FTREE are different, because FTREE will not show reflections in wet weather conditions. NTREE does. This might be the same for the NBUILD FBUILD, but never tested it."


Sorry, dont know if you know this, but if not then NTREE is a NEAR TREE and FTREE is a FAR TREE (see f1 graphics.cfg).

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/29/2006 05:59PM by Willb.

Bugger I actually knew that, found it out months ago and forgot

I'll add it in the next week or so

there doesn't seem to be much (anything?) on textures in the guide. did i miss something?

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Feel free to add to it if you wish, just email Lo2k the new file once you've downloaded it and he'll put the changes up in his own good time

i was hoping to be a pupil, not the teacher :|

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My point is that if you have something you wish to add that I haven't and that you think I should have, you can.

As for textures, what is there that you want in there?

I just had a look at it to find out about textures - mainly where and how the 3 types are used and alpha channels too, but theres nothing there.
if i figure it out i'll see about adding it i guess

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3 types? What 3 types?

I forgot about alpha channels, I meant to add it but in a vain effort to get something out I guess I missed it.

I'll see what I can do, there's loads that needs improving really, the wording in places sucks and there are a number of holes that needs some filla in them

dxt5 and dxt1 with or without transparency.
something on the Clipping values and Advanced Properties would be good too. You mustäve learnt something there importing 600 objects.
But I guess the unks are still unks

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Aye unks are still unks, I really tried digging around to find out what they might do but I'm fresh out of ideas at this point.

Plus I'm rusty having not been into a track .gp4 for ooo, all of 2 months now

Clipping is pretty simple, the lower the value, the later you see it. That's what the ring around an object is for, I believe

Think I did something on advanced properties, and I wouldn't be surprised if I have notes on it somewhere, otherwise some more experiments will no doubt ensue

i opened the S1CT01.dat in 17.6 adn when i click a track section i keep getting this

"Violation d'acces a l'adresse 0994CD42 dans le module 'atioglx1.dll'. Ecriture de l'adresse CAB5BA29."

any ideas on what it is?

How is your Estoril coming along, Zep?


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it's not anymore, at least, not by him, he said he gave up on trackediting after releasing the Foetus

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> How is your Estoril coming along, Zep?
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Yeah Paco's right unfortunately. Maybe one day when I don't have so much work and other stuff to do, I'll make something else. Maybe

Actually speaking of Estoril, I have a file to upload to somewhere for the person doing the track in my stead

Ok I got a problem here with my adelaide circuit :
I had to flip the normals of the adelaide land i made in 3DS max (It wasn't visible in GP4)
But it seems the land is now very dark.

3D editor preview : users.pandora.be/Zjokke1977/GP4_Pics/Adelaide_darkland.jpg

Try computing normals in 3DEditor.

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Unify Ground Normals in 17.6 fixes this

When adding the dat file to the gp4 file i get by the s/f line a graphical bug, it's the rails section, see pic below.

Is it a coordinates/mapping problem or is it related to the dat file?

Thanks in advance and cheers

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