New Trackediting Guide [INPUT NEEDED]

As some of you might know, the next few weeks i'll be brewing up a new trackediting guide. But i need some help making it work for everybody. So i have a few questions for you too.

- What are areas that are hard for you in trackediting?
- did you ever use the old guide and what did you not like or didn't find clear?
- Do you have a nice trackmap of a circuit i could just as well use when creating a track as an example?
- Anything else?

Look at this thread for updates on the guide.

my biggest problem is to get a trackmap correctly mapped in gp4builder. it was descibed in earlier versions but i never got it to work as i wanted
cc line editing has become a lot easier but sometimes cc cars react a bit unpredictable. perhaps some hints for a fast cc line would be good.

but tbh the old guide was flawless

n00binio Wrote:
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> my biggest problem is to get a trackmap correctly
> mapped in gp4builder. it was descibed in earlier
> versions but i never got it to work as i wanted
> cc line editing has become a lot easier but
> sometimes cc cars react a bit unpredictable.
> perhaps some hints for a fast cc line would be
> good.
>
> but tbh the old guide was flawless


Hm, to be honest a fast cc-line is something i have found hard to get myself too But i'll try. Thanks for the compliment btw

Any idea on a track? I'm as far as i get without actually starting so a trackmap would be more than welcome

what about 92 kyalami?

Sure, i don't mind. Do you have a good map? (i was looking for singapore, but couldn't find a good one)

i`ll have a look. i wanted to start this track but never got far with it. perhaps the trackmap is still on my hdd

have a look at this thread for singapore pics
[www.grandprixgames.org]


kyalami sounds great, may i also suggest jerez or sebring.

Sebring:
[www.imsaracing.net]
[blogf1.co.uk]
[upload.wikimedia.org]
Google Earth: 27°39'06.52"N, 81°20'42.70"W

Jerez:
[fotos.miarroba.com]
[www.dailymotos.com]
Google Earth: 36°42'30.10"N, 6°01'58.12"E

hope it helps!

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X (@ed24f1)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/2008 05:33PM by SchueyFan.

you can suggest anything you want. All i need is a trackmap (i see gildoorf is already working on singapore, it would be nice to do one that hasn't been done before).
Provide a decent trackmap and i'll do it





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/2008 05:18PM by <Maverick>.

Track Length: 4261 m

hope that´s good enough

<Maverick> Wrote:
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> you can suggest anything you want. All i need is a
> trackmap (i see gildoorf is already working on
> singapore, it would be nice to do one that hasn't
> been done before).
> Provide a decent trackmap and i'll do it

added some hi-res images, both satellite and track maps - as well as google earth coordinates. see my post above



although, the track i would MOST want for gp4 is bathurst, but i'm not sure if this is an appopriate track for a tutorial.
anyway, here is a super hi-res aerial image. i put it in a rar as it is 12.7MB and wouldn't upload to any image sites i could find (although adding it to a rar file didn't reduce the size at all unfortunately) thanks to f1freak for this btw.
[www.speedyshare.com]

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X (@ed24f1)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/2008 05:50PM by SchueyFan.

isn´t gildoorf or someone else still working on jerez?

yes, there was a very early beta released, but iirc work stopped on this track (i could be wrong though)

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X (@ed24f1)

i managed a raceable layout iwth CC-line (using the original guide), and then got stuck with landscaping... so my project was never completed

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I found land building to be the most difficult thing while making a track... It's not exactly a GP4builder issue, but some tutorial on how to do it with Zmodeler or something like that would be cool.

Idea for a trackmap? What about yas island, in that way we will have a 2009 track started.

well, glad to tell you guys i have a nice trackmap. Won't tell which though. Anyway, keep the tips and requests coming.

<Maverick> schrieb:
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> well, glad to tell you guys i have a nice
> trackmap. Won't tell which though. Anyway, keep
> the tips and requests coming.

one of the tracks suggested here or an idea by you?

my own idea
btw, it's just for use in the tutorial, i wouldn't count on a done track afterwards.

<Maverick> schrieb:
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> btw, it's just for use in the tutorial, i wouldn't
> count on a done track afterwards.

if there would be a finished track afterwards, we would advise you to write a new tutorial every two months

<Maverick> Wrote:
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> Hm, to be honest a fast cc-line is something i
> have found hard to get myself too But i'll try.

The point is not to make a fast cc-line, but a realistic one.
I know it sounds pretty stupid but it's the truth.

You have to consider many many things and I often have to run many tests and make changes before the reult is good.

I think I should be the person to take over this part beacuse I have build so many of them and experienced which values to use and which changes give good reult and which not.

I already planned to do one year ago because some people requested it..don't know if it was gildoorf, Paolo oder somebody else. I once started but never get close to finish...so at the moment I have nothing for use.
As I have absolutely no time during the next 2 weeks I can't help and I don't have motivation for this before gildoorf's and Paulo's Barcelona and Sakhir track aren't finished. So I probably will do this at first before anything else..(damn it , Monaco is liying in wait, too )

So I suggest to take the guide from gildoorf'S and paulo's blog (virtualF1) and extend it...maybe I can give some tips later.

Cheers





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/2008 11:28PM by Ruboy.