Re: [Torcs-devel] [Speed-dreams-devel] Racing track Tuna.

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Hi Kennet,

i will check out your track, your thoughts sounds interesting.

As an 3d artist for me creating is not only questions about the design  
of the road itself.
When i polish a track i asking always:
- Where is it located?
- What season?
- How does the environment and nature look at the defined location and season?
- What additional objects are required to let the track looking lively  
and varying?

 From techniscal 3d artist stuff:
- Does the track has a good texture mapping?
- Are there any mapping or 3d mesh bugs?
- Is a shadow map available?

All together, technical and artist thoughts, will make a real good,  
funny to race track.

Cheers
Eckhard.




Zitat von Kennet Eriksson <eri...@ya...>:

> Hello.
>
> Yup, I went ahead and made a track despite the lackadaisical
> reaction on my test-track.
>
> There are two ways to get enjoyment of racing. One is by driving on
> a nice and challenging track. The other is by interaction with other
> cars when racing. So, can't you enjoy both at the same time? No, the
> requirements of the tracks are different. Anything on a track that
> makes it fun to drive also hinders overtaking and lessens the inter-
> action between the racing cars.
>
> Requirements for a racing track:
> Fairly wide as overtaking will be easy.
> Straights should be straight and long enough for a realistic
> overtaking attempt.
> Overtaking seldom happens in a technical section, they should there-
> fore be short.
> A short track has a short average distance between the cars, i.e.
> more interaction.
> Some difficulties as to make mistakes more likely.
>
> Examples: Nordschleife is enormously fun driving but overtaking is
> difficult and it is so long there is little interaction.
> Ovalracing is only about interaction with other cars.
>
> I decided to try to make a racing track optimized for racing. It is
> inspired by my test-track that I presented earlier. Nobody said
> anything about what they thought about racing on it, the responses
> were only about driving so I haven't made any drastic changes.
>
> Why do I believe there is a need for such a track? I don't believe
> such a track exists either in the real world or in a game/simulation.
> With the recent discussions on the difficulty of overtaking in F1
> and the criticism of the Tilke designed tracks in mind I decided to
> try to make a track with good overtaking opportunities.
>
> Like it or not but it is about this such a track would look like.
> If anyone finds this useful and makes a track with this in mind I
> wouldn't mind either a thank you or some well chosen curses in a
> readme file somewhere.
>
> Some design considerations:
> There are no curbs. The track is meant to be challenging and I also
> think they look wrong on it.
>
> The pitarea is placed so it doesn't go into any runoff area on the
> first and last turn. It is deliberate, any entusiastic driver should
> visit a gravel trap!
>
> You think the track looks too easy to drive? Try it in SimuV3.
>
> The pits are placed to minimise any silly behaviour by the robots.
> An inside placed pit doesn't work at all.
>
> The environment is sparse, it fits the name. Anyone may improve on
> it but I think it should have a rural look.
>
> Now, what about the name? The answer to that question and many (um,
> well, hardly any at all really...) other are to be found if you
> download the track. The readme might be of interest.
>
> I would also like to hear what you think of racing on this track.
>
> There are two versions of the track, one difference is the logo
> on the portal above the start/finish line. The track is unchanged.
> The other change is for you to find!
>
> The track is to be found on txchange:
> http://t-xchange.co.cc/forum/viewforum.php?f=9&sid=6b3002f4dc704cb4c91b32d306f58b04
>
> Regards
> Kennet
>
>