This 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:
- Preparations
- Modeling the Track (Part 1)
- Modeling the Track (Part 2)
- Texturing the Track
- Final Touches
- 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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Cool! Now to try it out...
Wouw, this looks good, but first I think I have to do the remaining part of a beginner-tutorial.
wow, nice tutorial! thanks!
Why didn't I think of that??!! Well done! Nice tutorial!!!
Hey Broken_Sword :)
Have you been able to use this in TGE or TSE?
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
Yes I wanted exactly this. I will read them when I get back to my home, where there is faster net and better keyboard.
hey i can use this to create luminous bugs to crawl around my website hopefully quicker than i thought.
The links are not working!
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.
I'm pleased to say that my website is now back to normal =)
Thanks again,
Daniel Sefton.
I love playing whith cars
umm... hey dan, your site died again... :(
The dof exporter doesnt seem to be working, i'm using xp :-( with blender 2.45 :-). any1 having this prob?
that links dosnt work for me:(
Good link (at the time of this posting):
http://e2-productions.com/repository/modules/tutorials/files/Create%20a%20Racetrack/New%20Page%201.htm
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.