Back to the sixties! A vintage car/track championship

[The Almighty Snark]

Working on BARC Pembrey located in Wales.

It's my first track project so everything is taking quite some time to figure out. I've already got a better track mesh after setting both inside and outside splines at an equal resolution.

Unfortunately there was no public LIDAR data for Pembrey so I've got a normal DEM that i've grid aligned in QGIS and then has been imported as a heightmap in Blender. This unfortunately will require a bit of tinkering to get a mesh that is the correct height and is smooth enough to align the splines on.

The first is doable thanks to certain buildings that are visible in the height data. The second may require some sculpting to smooth out the surfaces as you can see here it is very stepped. I'm happy for suggestions!

 

[HF2000]

That's great, Casper!

I think that @Fat-Alfie can help you with advice. I remember that he said something like that in a conversation with me.

 

[The Almighty Snark]

That's great, Casper!

I think that @Fat-Alfie can help you with advice. I remember that he said something like that in a conversation with me.

Cheers that's great advice!

I think I accidentally posted this in the wrong thread when I was in the Modding Discussion, I have a habit of middle mouse clicking and accidentally opening new links that way...

 

[beginer]

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Working on BARC Pembrey located in Wales.

It's my first track project so everything is taking quite some time to figure out. I've already got a better track mesh after setting both inside and outside splines at an equal resolution.

Unfortunately there was no public LIDAR data for Pembrey so I've got a normal DEM that i've grid aligned in QGIS and then has been imported as a heightmap in Blender. This unfortunately will require a bit of tinkering to get a mesh that is the correct height and is smooth enough to align the splines on.

The first is doable thanks to certain buildings that are visible in the height data. The second may require some sculpting to smooth out the surfaces as you can see here it is very stepped. I'm happy for suggestions!

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Looks like youre making a new track. I know virtually nothing about this, but a genuine thanks for putting your time/ effort into something we all will benefit from! Rock star!

 

[Rodger Davies]

Ooh, are you doing 60s Pembrey? Or have I gotten mistaken?

Either way, big undertaking and I wish you all the luck.

 

[The Almighty Snark]

Ooh, are you doing 60s Pembrey? Or have I gotten mistaken?

Alas no, the circuit didn't exist back then! I accidentally posted my progress in the wrong thread and the mods kindly split it off into a seperate one to avoid me mucking up the forums too much

Modern day Pembrey but suitable for classic BTCC! It also looks like a fun and fast GT3 track!

 

[The Almighty Snark]

I think that @Fat-Alfie can help you with advice. I remember that he said something like that in a conversation with me.

Cheers! So far following lilski's tutorials and resources littered around the internet! Fat Alfie is another creator that is definitely a standard to look up to!

 

[HF2000]

Cheers! So far following lilski's tutorials and resources littered around the internet! Fat Alfie is another creator that is definitely a standard to look up to!

Yes, David also mentioned Lilski's tutorials. They must be very good!

 

[The Almighty Snark]

I've successfully mapped the original curves to the DEM files, subsequently created a mesh from them, then a inner curve that I could shrinkwrap an array of planes to thus creating a nice quad mesh(well, expect for some dodgy corners). Now would be a good time to attempt a basic export to Assetto Corsa!