Re: [TuxKart-devel] Things have gone very quiet....

[Ingo R. <gr...@gm...>]

Steve Baker <sjb...@ai...> writes:

> What is everyone working on (if anything)?

I have tried my luck a little bit on track modeling in blender, doing
something like that below seems to be reasonably easy (extrude a shape
along a bezier curve, texture curbs by first selecting them via 'Face
Loop Select' and then using 'Standard' UV mapping, track and sand can
be added via marking all inner/outer vertexes then pressing 'Shift-F',
texturing them via 'Window' UV mapping, vertex groups can speed up the
marking of areas a lot):

http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~ingo/racetrack.jpg
http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~ingo/racetrack2.jpg
http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~ingo/track.jpg

Biggest problem is that the curbs end up being unevenly space and I
don't think there is any easy workaround which doesn't involve
touching a whole lot of polygons manually. Maybe some kind of python
script can help to automate that process a bit.

Another problem is that blender can only extrude bezier curves around
bezier curves, so anything that isn't 'flat' (say a crash-barrier + a
post that holds it) could get a lot more throublesome. DulpiVerts
might help here a bit, however I haven't used them much yet.

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