Tutorial: Create Your Own Racetrack!

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Racetrack how-to screenshotThis is the title of an interesting series of tutorials released by Daniel Sefton on his site, a “must” for all those racing-sim-developers-wanna-be being hardly tempted by Club SILO.

This guide shows you how to create basic models step by step starting from a 2D draft and ending with a simple engine to test your tracks:

  1. Preparations
  2. Modeling the Track (Part 1)
  3. Modeling the Track (Part 2)
  4. Texturing the Track
  5. Final Touches
  6. A Simple Test Engine

The modeling technique exposed by Daniel can be useful in “standard” CG too, just think of a country landscape crossed by a road/river, I bet that few of us know how to create something like this keeping the mesh clean…

Good work Daniel!

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    • Tynach

      Cool! Now to try it out…

    • Zaffo

      Wouw, this looks good, but first I think I have to do the remaining part of a beginner-tutorial.

    • gamete

      wow, nice tutorial! thanks!

    • broken_sword

      Why didn’t I think of that??!! Well done! Nice tutorial!!!

    • http://www.users.on.net/~symes/gamedev/videotuts/videotuts.html Dingo_aus

      Hey Broken_Sword :)

      Have you been able to use this in TGE or TSE?

    • http://pixel81k.abstract-design.ch Pixel81k

      Hi Daniel,

      That’s great! i did something same for 3ds-max, but missed experience in blender! Tried it out, runs very well – jihaaaaaa!

      Thank you very much!

      Best Regards, Pixel81k

    • http://applegrew.blogspot.com applegrew

      Yes I wanted exactly this. I will read them when I get back to my home, where there is faster net and better keyboard.

    • http://www.twra5t.co.uk demt

      hey i can use this to create luminous bugs to crawl around my website hopefully quicker than i thought.

    • Gizmo Power

      The links are not working!

    • http://www.danielsefton.com/ Daniel Sefton

      I just want to let everyone know about the status of the website… I did not intend for this to happen at all, and it looks like someone has snapped up my domain name; which I’m absolutely distraught about. I’m trying my best to sort it out, and I want to reassure everyone that I will hopefully get it back online soon.

      I apologize deeply for any inconvenience.

      Thanks,
      Daniel Sefton.

    • http://www.danielsefton.com/ Daniel Sefton

      I’m pleased to say that my website is now back to normal =)

      Thanks again,
      Daniel Sefton.

    • http://www.patrickcrowne.com patrick

      I love playing whith cars

    • http://transistorpie.com dune

      umm… hey dan, your site died again… :(

    • Benjamin

      The dof exporter doesnt seem to be working, i’m using xp :-( with blender 2.45 :-). any1 having this prob?

    • Good But…

      that links dosnt work for me:(

    • http://oktyabr.wordpress.com/ Jon Hoskins

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    • http://www.danielsefton.com/ Daniel Sefton

      Hi guys,

      I have updated the racetrack tutorial for Blender 2.49. Apologies for taking so long, and thanks to Jon for keeping it online in the meantime.

      http://www.danielsefton.com/2011/06/create-your-own-racetrack-with-blender-2-49/

      Have fun!

      Daniel.

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