Pit Garage Size Limitations / Position & General Pit Modifications
Posted by ramf1v
OK, I've made some progress on this, I was having a problem with the objects when I pressed the "N" button, it made them transparent and I couldn't figure out why.
After a bit (read that lot) of experimenting, it turns out that the pitmonitor texture doesn't like textures with alpha maps.
Not a problem, in fact it's a bonus, because I discovered that each of the 3 objects that make up the pit_monitor.gp4 can have they're own texture.
monitor_screen - any texture you want (no alpha)
monitor_main_body - any texture you want (no alpha)
monitor_pole - texture with cables (alpha map)
Any mesh using a texture with alpha map is attached to monitor_pole and it fixes the issue, as it's separate from the rest of the mesh.
Also, pit_monitor.gp4 can be made up of any number of meshes, it just needs the prefix/class monitor_ so any number of objects too.
In a nutshell, there can be team specific tire warmers, monitor shapes, and blowers/tubing/wiring etc, each with a seperate texture.
I tried all the animation classes, but no go..... so no dry ice mist animation rising from the cockpit....bummer.
Lining the tyre warmers up with the wheels is a breeze in gp4 builder, just merge your car shape with the pitmonitor.gp4, and move warmers/objects into position, delete the car and save, all i need to do is work out the co-ordinate offset from monitor to car....volunteers ?
I only have two unanswered questions, can the actual monitor screen me moved (the one that displays the text and video wall) and can the monitor raise lower animation be modified in any way to raise higher off the screen?
thx
F1Dev
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/26/2011 02:14AM by ramf1v.
After a bit (read that lot) of experimenting, it turns out that the pitmonitor texture doesn't like textures with alpha maps.
Not a problem, in fact it's a bonus, because I discovered that each of the 3 objects that make up the pit_monitor.gp4 can have they're own texture.
monitor_screen - any texture you want (no alpha)
monitor_main_body - any texture you want (no alpha)
monitor_pole - texture with cables (alpha map)
Any mesh using a texture with alpha map is attached to monitor_pole and it fixes the issue, as it's separate from the rest of the mesh.
Also, pit_monitor.gp4 can be made up of any number of meshes, it just needs the prefix/class monitor_ so any number of objects too.
In a nutshell, there can be team specific tire warmers, monitor shapes, and blowers/tubing/wiring etc, each with a seperate texture.
I tried all the animation classes, but no go..... so no dry ice mist animation rising from the cockpit....bummer.
Lining the tyre warmers up with the wheels is a breeze in gp4 builder, just merge your car shape with the pitmonitor.gp4, and move warmers/objects into position, delete the car and save, all i need to do is work out the co-ordinate offset from monitor to car....volunteers ?
I only have two unanswered questions, can the actual monitor screen me moved (the one that displays the text and video wall) and can the monitor raise lower animation be modified in any way to raise higher off the screen?
thx
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/26/2011 02:14AM by ramf1v.
Well I'm done experimenting with this, the next step is to replace all the dirty models and textures with good ones.
Shame about the mist...it looks cool...
F1Dev
Shame about the mist...it looks cool...
unbelivable it looks so cool,it even dosn't look like Gp4 xd i really like it 
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Alessio
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Great stuff
looks damm cool!
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wow nice oO any news?
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haunetal1990
wow nice oO any news?
Just a bit of work done on this, I made a high poly RB monitor and some tyre warmers, I have a tyre warmer template if anyone is inerested in making the team specific ones.
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Turbo Lover
Tremendous stuff! What about a template for the high poly monitor?
A single template wouldn't work, all the monitors are very different in design, the whole plan was to have individual monitors and tyre warmers for each team.
But now you mention it, there's quite a lot of work to do.
What would be cool would be if these additional models in the pit monitor file could be repositioned like helmet and steer position via GPx Patch
ramf1v:
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> > wow nice oO any news?
>
>
> Just a bit of work done on this, I made a high
> poly RB monitor and some tyre warmers, I have a
> tyre warmer template if anyone is inerested in
> making the team specific ones.
>
>
> [img407.imageshack.us]
> h.pnghttp://img838.imageshack.us/img838/9714/warme
> rs2.th.pnghttp://img715.imageshack.us/img715/3410/
> mon2bb.th.pnghttp://img684.imageshack.us/img684/73
> 23/mon1p.th.png
well done!
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> > wow nice oO any news?
>
>
> Just a bit of work done on this, I made a high
> poly RB monitor and some tyre warmers, I have a
> tyre warmer template if anyone is inerested in
> making the team specific ones.
>
>
> [img407.imageshack.us]
> h.pnghttp://img838.imageshack.us/img838/9714/warme
> rs2.th.pnghttp://img715.imageshack.us/img715/3410/
> mon2bb.th.pnghttp://img684.imageshack.us/img684/73
> 23/mon1p.th.png
well done!
auscain Wrote:
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> I don't know enough about how the game does the
> rendering for this.
Yup me neither, I guess throwing a 10,000 face model at it will answer the question.
F1Dev
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> I don't know enough about how the game does the
> rendering for this.
Yup me neither, I guess throwing a 10,000 face model at it will answer the question.
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