Brilliant improvements to what already is a great track. Looking very much forward to 0.7, thanks for all the effort!
Tracks Riverside International Raceway
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I appreciate the compliments. I personally don't think I'm at that high of a level yet. My main concern is I have yet to deal with anything like lidar or laser scan yet. My next project is lidar based so I am looking forward to learning that process. It will also give me a better Idea as to how long a track actually takes. Rebuilding ghost tracks is a much tougher task in many ways than to have something like laser scan data. It takes all the guess work out of the picture and you can get all the photos you want just by going there.
ksperpixelreflection is the shader I use.
If you increase the ksspecularEXP to say 500 and fresnelexp down to 1 you get this
When I release 0.5 I I had it at like 500 but I felt the reflections were too pronounced. So i lowered it to 100 for 0.6 and that is what it is now.
The texture is just a simple grey 64x64 texture. Does not need any alpha channel or anything.
Here is a video to see the latest updates in motion. Was testing performance with full field and it runs very well even when completely un-optimized at this point. Still some tweaks and fixes to do before 0.7. Some RVs still need to be more random and road edges don't match yet.
I also tried a new technique for the land texture maps to get some more random details which match a normal map so it looks like they have some depth.
I also tried a new technique for the land texture maps to get some more random details which match a normal map so it looks like they have some depth.
It looks so much more alive now. Sweet 
Indeed it no longer looks like a ghost town. I will be looking to put up 0.7 by this weekend hopefully. Whatever I don't finish will just have to be in 0.8.It looks so much more alive now. Sweet
Full cam set may have to wait til 0.8. More nurse duties for me.
My God! You have really given Riverside a realistic atmosphere with the spectator stands, RVs, people, signs, etc... I don't think I've ever been this excited to drive a WIP before, but I can't wait to get my hands on 0.8! This track is shaping up to be a masterpiece.
@LilSki you mentioned that your next project is going to be LIDAR based. Have you revealed which track you're going to be building next?
This track is shaping up to be a masterpiece.@LilSki you mentioned that your next project is going to be LIDAR based. Have you revealed which track you're going to be building next?
My God! You have really given Riverside a realistic atmosphere with the spectator stands, RVs, people, signs, etc... I don't think I've ever been this excited to drive a WIP before, but I can't wait to get my hands on 0.8!
@LilSki you mentioned that your next project is going to be LIDAR based. Have you revealed which track you're going to be building next?
iRacing has a "tech" version of the track, could be worth taking a look at to get some more pointers, especially regarding the layout itself. It's still a WIP (more like standby), but it's fairly advanced in development.
They only have a tech version of Thunderbolt as far as I know. This is the Lightning course.
Haaaa, you're right. Thunderbolt and different chicane arrangements..
