Released Hondsrugring

[Erwin Greven]

http://www.hederahelix.nl/hondsrugring/fotos/bronneger/11082009(058).jpg

 

[Kris Vickers]

WOW Erwin, that bit of track looks just like real life!! lol

 

[martinez]

How about this?

 

[Erwin Greven]

BRILLIANT!!

 

[martinez]

... more than 500 polygons in the lifting device... I hope your machine can stand it (with other objects in the project). So far, no problems

 

[Erwin Greven]

I hope so...
Specs: AMD 6400+ xp dual core.
3GB RAM. Win XP pro, XFX-8800GT

 

[martinez]

Laptop: Intel 2.0 Ghz Dual Core, 4GB RAM (667 Mhz), NVidia M8600 GT, XP Pro SP3, 1024x768 (RBR) - max FPS, but just with 1 km road and 1000 polygons of terrain The whole set will have around 800 polygons and 180 kb of textures, will count it later

 

[Kris Vickers]

I know its nice having polys do all the work, but for a drive-by object, would it not be worth having flat faces with alpha texture to give the same effect for waaaay less polys?

 

[martinez]

Yes, I know, I'm just learning Sketchup and enjoying it very much We will see - if it kills the processor, I will do low-poly version too. For sure you can switch off collisions in that big lift (I don't know how to name it) since it's surrounded with rails.

 

[martinez]

The bridge is now complete This should be of course over the river - the picture is from testing track that you can drive on/and under this.
Erwin, I'm sending the whole thing to you in a while.

 

[Erwin Greven]

Looks awesome!!

 

[Erwin Greven]

bridge in the Hondsrugring.

 

[martinez]

Great! My first house is also there!
Water looks very natural... Is it some tarmac texture? No kidding, looks nice, smart idea!

 

[Erwin Greven]

I have to widen the canal a bit, but the bridge looks good now.

 

[martinez]

I see, they used to be wider sometimes, nothing wrong.
Did you check framerates? I was testing with big amount of objects and it seemed to be fine.

 

[Erwin Greven]

i had no problems with the framerate.

 

[martinez]

Great. I think with transparent textures instead of details from polygons it would look worse 500 is not that much, as I checked some other objects randomly.
Let me know when new video is published on the track's website Greetings!

 

[Erwin Greven]

some simple buildings added. The hotel is more difficult.

 

[Erwin Greven]

 

[martinez]

Congratulations! Don't forget about Don Kichote!