Re-encouraging track modeling

[mianiak]

Sorry I got cmaps wrong, thats for cars, commonmaps.mas is for tracks.

I just had a look at Jacksonville and the only cube map I can find is OCEAN6.dds, there is no car cube in there.

[Jason C. Ray]

My apologies. It was taken from Orchard Lake Oval.

Yes, I have that line in my scn file. The top lines of my scn file are basically identical to those in all of the ISI scn files. It must be something fairly simple as these things usually are but, it's just eluding me.

[Steve B]

Hi Guys,
This is a fantastic thread.
I am self taught with 3d max and would LOVE to learn your tricks.
I can basically create a track it is the buildings and grandstands that I have troubles with and shaders.

I had Abu Dahbi circuit 60% complete till the guy doing the buildings and grandstands quit so my first scratch built track was put in the file cabinet.

Thanks to everyone who started and contributes to this thread

Steve B

[Banger]

IMHO the lack of any feature to cut / merge / weld one track to another is the biggest problem of BTB. Doesn't seem be acceptable to join tracks by moving points of two independent GMTs without at least any SNAP helper. The lack of any cut tool to cap the tracks in any direction is a bit disappointed aspect too. In BTB, all track panels must be parallel including its ending… Thus, you have to hide the rest of the track underneath the second one, without any coincident points… Not a good solution. Try to imagine create the track joints as below using BTB… it seems to be like bend over backwards to me…



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i think there is a tutorial for btb on how to merge two tracks, by piddy