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I hope pacific coast track will end up with that kind of textures in the transition between asphalt and grass. Looks really amazingI have spent the last few hours trying to get the trackside textures to look better. I hate this jobI know exactly how I want it to look, but there are so many variables and sub-textures that need to work together in order for the effect to look convincing, I find it so difficult
So, I made a start - I made a new diffuse texture for the road, and added a rougher edge than you might find on a current track. I'm pretty happy with it, too. The verges are a fair start, I think. I wanted to get a basic set of detail textures, and a rough mask working first. It's such a long track, with a track edge that seems to vary from lush grass, dirt, forest floor mulch, gravel... I'm pretty sure I am going to need 2 or 3 materials to stop it looking too artificial.
Oh, and I added some chimney smoke to the newly AO-baked Russigmuhle hotel, too. I have used a flag shader with an alpha blend mode, just to give it a slow, subtle movement - quite effective
That's a moot point, AC apps take care of timing.
Just grazeful spectators I think, they must be friesian there in the shade though.
In all seriousness, they are actually quite effective. I have an awful lot of grassy areas / fields, and I had been wondering how I could pad them out a bit, without adding loads of trees that shouldn't be there. The current texture is a mix of cows and sheep, but I think I will split them into two separate textures instead. I can just see one of the fields on the main straight with a flock of sheep dotted around in it.
And as they are camera facing objects, they are always watching you... (like either the Mona Lisa, or Roz from Monsters Inc.)
I might also try to make some very distant trees too, although I'm not sure the shader works with the lighting too well
And as they are camera facing objects, they are always watching you... (like either the Mona Lisa, or Roz from Monsters Inc.
)I might also try to make some very distant trees too, although I'm not sure the shader works with the lighting too well
I hope so too mate
When I learn WTF I'm doing... I'll try lolThe next version will have barriers though...
Texture transitions won't save you if you overcook it on a corner
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Camera-facing crowds (be they cows or humans) can be super creepy... if you take a screenshot from behind, toward the action, you get a whole different vibe with them all standing backs-to-the-track staring at your camera position. Not really relevant to your work, just an observation.
Camera-facing crowds (be they cows or humans) can be super creepy... if you take a screenshot from behind, toward the action, you get a whole different vibe with them all standing backs-to-the-track staring at your camera position. Not really relevant to your work, just an observation.
Indeed. Sometime I've found myself in F7 camera mode in the grandstands during a replay - only to notice the fact that every other spectator have turned themselves round whilst staring at me. I take the hint and get the hell out, I'm obviously not welcome there...
I am slowly working my way around the track, knitting the verges to the low poly terrain. I had promised myself that I would get this boring task completed before I got side tracked by anything on my list of things to do, but with only 40% of it done I thought I deserved a break.
I had intended to do my rocks and cliffs with fancy-pants multilayer shaders (and I might yet have to), but a quick test with a single diffuse texture might be good enough. Maybe try adding a normal map too It's slowly starting to come together, and I am getting jobs done that I have been putting off for months, too
My plan is to make the terrain look fairly decent without the need for 3D grass. In theory, when I do add the grass, it should look even better
I had intended to do my rocks and cliffs with fancy-pants multilayer shaders (and I might yet have to), but a quick test with a single diffuse texture might be good enough. Maybe try adding a normal map too
It's slowly starting to come together, and I am getting jobs done that I have been putting off for months, too
My plan is to make the terrain look fairly decent without the need for 3D grass. In theory, when I do add the grass, it should look even better
