Race Remaster

holacrosty · Feb 13, 2022

About the trees:
- Great trees can be achiveable and look really good (at least with the T0 shader I show here) but they use normals. So the sun light knows what to do. I even use the smoothed ones to avoid the "X tree" looking.
- Trees with this "realistic" shader are very sensitive to the texture used. (photoshop correction needed).
- The texture mip map seted up correctly (with photoshop nvidia plugin). And all saved in the same format. I dont remember now and I lost it. But the difference is noticeable. Specially when looking at an angle they don tend to lost resolution (even at the distance, or movement. Something to consider for other textures also).
- Somehow on 3dsimed "2" ,when there are "double original trees", one apears first to selection. As I remember, that first one goes multiple, the other simple. This solves the "jaggy" edges.
- The green background (not black) helps to soften the edges?
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AndreasFSC · Feb 13, 2022

Testing my models as 3d spectators using the game texture.

Compared to the original models:

Of course the models could be much more detailed, but that would be bad for the frame rate.
Maybe I will replace the models that are seen the most.

Speednut357 · Feb 13, 2022

AndreasFSC said:
Testing my models as 3d spectators using the game texture.

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Compared to the original models:

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Of course the models could be much more detailed, but that would be bad for the frame rate.
Maybe I will replace the models that are seen the most.

Excellent work. Seeing this post reminded me of a crowd change I saw recently in a GTL track that worked to good effect. The track author placed a few moving flags amongst the crowd, which to my surprise, gave the impression that the public was more alive than usual.

AndreasFSC · Feb 13, 2022

Be careful what you say to the germans, they are giants

@Sven Hielscher
(It seems the average german here is 2,30 m tall)

But some of them are rather weak, too much wind and they almost fall over...

AndreasFSC · Feb 14, 2022

Just normal guys doing ordinary things...

Didn't plan for it, but I think I have to replace more spectators

Sven Hielscher · Feb 14, 2022

AndreasFSC said:
Be careful what you say to the germans, they are giants @Sven Hielscher
(It seems the average german here is 2,30 m tall)

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But some of them are rather weak, too much wind and they almost fall over...

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Beware of the German giants

but I recently learned that the tallest Europeans actually live in the Netherlands. So better look out in Zandvoort instead

AndreasFSC said:
Just normal guys doing ordinary things...

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Didn't plan for it, but I think I have to replace more spectators

Placing spectarors/objects randomly is doing the job but is by far not always providing the best possible quality of work. I know what I'm talking about, being a quality manager

On another note: Unfortunately I had not much time to work on the UI yet (the quality manager thing, you know). But hopefully can spend some good time soon!

AndreasFSC · Feb 14, 2022

The flag marshal can feel a little bit more safe now.

And a new law in Brazil says that standing half way through windows or fences is not allowed (unless it is done where no one can see it)

Older spectators will remain in some places, at least for now.

MJQT · Feb 14, 2022

Well done. Love the attention to little details like this

AndreasFSC · Feb 15, 2022

Some spectators at Puebla are replaced now. Not a huge difference, but a little bit improvement to have them in the right scale. (Not all original spectators are too big, it depends on the track)

AndreasFSC · Feb 20, 2022

Doing a lot of minor things for the moment.
Some sky textures is a little bit brighter, some buildings and track side vehicles have updated normals where needed (there were some buildings at Porto with errors that caused the materials to turn white in day light.)

Doubled the roundness detail of the side rear view mirrors of the Alfa Romeo 156 and adjusted materials setting slightly. It is much work, but at least it is getting closer to a release of the first version.

MJQT · Feb 20, 2022

AndreasFSC said:
Doing a lot of minor things for the moment.
Some sky textures is a little bit brighter, some buildings and track side vehicles have updated normals where needed (there were some buildings at Porto with errors that caused the materials to turn white in day light.)

Doubled the roundness detail of the side rear view mirrors of the Alfa Romeo 156 and adjusted materials setting slightly. It is much work, but at least it is getting closer to a release of the first version.

Looking great. In my opinion, it's amazing how minor things like slightly wonky textures or low roundness detail determine one's first impressions and immersion level! So, in that way, these are important, major edits.

And regardless, as a cockpit-view racer who enjoys the Alfas, I'm excited to hear about this update

AndreasFSC · Feb 21, 2022

What has this poor guy done to deserve this?
Also some of the spectators are standing above the ground as seen in the previous image.

I think I will reposition the original people (seems to have the right scale) and add some of my models in front at Zandvoort.

AndreasFSC · Feb 21, 2022

Should be better now.

Vanaja · Feb 21, 2022

AndreasFSC said:
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Too many "mellanöl"

AndreasFSC · Mar 4, 2022

Most track fixes that I want to to are finished now. There will probably be a few more still.
Menus should be in an ok state soon, more updates can be released in the future.
Most non-inrace menus are done, some details (buttons/icons mainly) are left to do.
Menus in game will be quite similar to Race07 standard for now.

WIP splash screen:

Didn't plan to make new buttons/icons. Sadly I couldn't make the icons style that originally came with the design work, they needed higher resolution to look good. Also the screens started to look a little bit crowded after I edited some other things, so I decided to have a go using my ST UI buttons (but reworked), I think this will be good enough.

MJQT · Mar 5, 2022

Gosh, this is getting exciting.

AndreasFSC said:
I decided to have a go using my ST UI buttons (but reworked), I think this will be good enough.

I personally really like the look of those icons! Maybe for ease of reading they could be dark or blue instead of white, but I think those ST icons are brilliant, and good enough to be in the mod permanently.