High Speed Oval

[stevenhorton]

I am just testing some new static meshes as a high speed track. I took a few times to get the track surface smooth enough, but now you can go flat out on the entire course, with the new faster vehicles. The background and such is from JumpCity, I just deleted the old track pieces.

 

[craze]

looks nice, when can we get acopy of it? (and when are we gfonna get to see the new race tang youve got there?)

 

[stevenhorton]

Finished track

 

[Malibu Barbie]

Groovie! Is it available for download yet?

 

[stevenhorton]

Here is a beta, that allowed me to make it small enough to zip and post here.

 

[Malibu Barbie]

Here is a beta, that allowed me to make it small enough to zip and post here.

Way cool. Thanks. It does take a bit more skill than the test track. Yes it is possible to keep full speed the whole way around, but in a tight race, it is possible to either slide or hit the wall, then lose some momentum. Makes things a bit more interesting.

 

[PrimalInstinct]

Teehee...this is gonna be fun this trak rox-bound to be a hit

 

[Twrecks]

I'm working on some race maps for an unrelated project, I may port them over for you fastcats. I'm a fan of Unwheel, look forward to more user made maps :tup:

 

[Twrecks]

On the banked turns, instead of one big 180, how about splitting it and mirroring the mesh for the exit (or the other way). Basically it would then use the same smaller mesh 4 times, rather than one big mesh twice. Might help improve FPS...

Otherwise I liked it
p.s. next time rebuild/save after removing content as there were a ton of null references in the beta. Thanks for sharing.

Just to show you I'm not rippin' nothin off from Unwheel here's a pic of one of my projects. And I thought I was original using a mesh for the road bed

 

[stevenhorton]

Looks good Twrecks Sorry about the null references; but I had to change alot of content in order to release it, since I am using content no one esle has.

 

[Kantham]

Nice result steve. I kinda liked the way it looked "empty". Now it looks similar to Aube

 

[stevenhorton]

Twrecks, I tried what you suggested, only I split all the meshes, ( banked corner, fence, apron and wall), the frame rate stayed about the same. I really thought I would lower it, not because I had less polys, but because it didn't have to render the right side while i traveled the left side of the track.
I did increase the polys on the apron, the result is sharper shadows

 

[Twrecks]

It should help more in NET play as collision per face detection is lowered with poly count. Of course you can get silly on the other-side and then the CPU is checking too many meshes. Like you said, even when just one face is visible the GPU renders and then z-buffers all the faces. Slower CPU's and lesser graphic cards will appreciate your efforts. The shadow tracing is a nice byproduct I hadn't expected...

 

[Maxx]

Looks really nice!

 

[JACK SH!T]

hey Twrecks, I was wondering if you plan to share any of your maps with us UW players
The screen shot you posted looks like a fun & fast map (my geuss is it would get alot of server time). Also, is the mod you're working on going to be a public d/l, or just something you're working on for school?

 

[Twrecks]

I'll have to play my options out before commiting. I have 3 maps in progress.