The "What Are You Working On?" Thread

Fat-Alfie · May 28, 2017

Yeah, that was supposed to be a joke - sorry

AccAkut · May 28, 2017

I are German, I can't good no humour

Fat-Alfie · May 28, 2017

But you make awesome roads and circuits

formulaHEINE · May 28, 2017

Getting close to unleash the beast.

formulaHEINE · May 28, 2017

It's live!
Get your RAWR here: http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/scg003c-nürburgring-24h-2017-traum-motorsport-2k-4k.15571/

mantasisg · May 28, 2017

testing "Nemuno Ziedas" and Jaaaaaaaaaaaag

speedyx56 · May 31, 2017

Watching the Nordschleife 24hours gave me a few ideas

A3DR · Jun 2, 2017

Alcantara dreams

Brownninja97 · Jun 2, 2017

Nice, from what ive seen alcantara is a damn hard thing to replicate nicely in games for whatever reason. Its shiny in pcars for some reason.

A3DR · Jun 2, 2017

Brownninja97 said:
Nice, from what ive seen alcantara is a damn hard thing to replicate nicely in games for whatever reason. Its shiny in pcars for some reason.

Well mostly because it's hard to get it right using a tileable texture. The perfect solution would be to use a huge map (4k at least) and avoid using a tile, but that'll be overkill.

In this case I've used the NM_Detail shader as any other car, tried to get as close as possible without using too much tile or losing detail.

Still not perfect, but close. Haven't seen a good example of this in AC yet.

AccAkut · Jun 2, 2017

Do you feel like sharing the shader settings? No problem if you want to keep your trade secret.

garyjpaterson · Jun 2, 2017

I hope they're not trade secrets because I've probably already looked at them in CM's showroom... and just about every other good looking mod

Ryno917 · Jun 2, 2017

What about using a small tileable detail texture for the grain, and then a larger texture (say, the whole dash as one non-tiling texture) for some colour/specular variation to make it look like the grain is brushed in a different direction? The change in look as the grain is brushed in a different direction is, to me, the biggest thing that makes Alcantara look like Alcantara.

Similarly to how the roads are textured.

A3DR · Jun 2, 2017

Ryno917 said:
What about using a small tileable detail texture for the grain, and then a larger texture (say, the whole dash as one non-tiling texture) for some colour/specular variation to make it look like the grain is brushed in a different direction? The change in look as the grain is brushed in a different direction is, to me, the biggest thing that makes Alcantara look like Alcantara.

Similarly to how the roads are textured.

That gave me an idea, so I messed with the map texture channels, added some variation to the AO, some adjustments to the shader, and I'm pleased with the result now, here it is:

My reference:

Might have to lose a bit of the contrast there but I think that does it.

No trade secrets here:

AccAkut · Jun 2, 2017

garyjpaterson said:
I hope they're not trade secrets because I've probably already looked at them in CM's showroom... and just about every other good looking mod

CM can show the shader settings?

After_Midnight · Jun 2, 2017

A3DR said:
Alcantara dreams
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...wet Alcantara dreams

garyjpaterson · Jun 2, 2017

AccAkut said:
CM can show the shader settings?

Yup.

And that second go at the alcantara is phenomenal. Lovely stuff @A3DR.

AccAkut · Jun 2, 2017

garyjpaterson said:
Yup.

And that second go at the alcantara is phenomenal. Lovely stuff @A3DR.

that for sure makes things heaps easier, I knew it could show all textures and mappings, but that button I must have missed so far.

So I don't need to go down other paths anymore to analyse, nice

Ryno917 · Jun 2, 2017

A3DR said:
That gave me an idea, so I messed with the map texture channels, added some variation to the AO, some adjustments to the shader, and I'm pleased with the result now, here it is:
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My reference:
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Might have to lose a bit of the contrast there but I think that does it.

No trade secrets here:
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