Bonjour all...
Following on from my old Highway build a few years ago (Still unfinished...) I've started a new track!
I'm sure everyone is familiar with the Osaka Loop/ Hanshin Line / "Kanjo Loop" By now. I want to re-create that atmosphere of the Midnight run darting between traffic, Hazards flashing...
This track was/ is intended for Assetto Corsa, But fortunately, i only know how to get tracks into good old Racer. So, lucky for you, Racer will be my test bed before someone no-doubt ports it over to their Game/ Simulator of choice.
(Link to the road on google maps - https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?sadd...164795&mra=mift&mrsp=0&sz=14&t=m&z=14&start=0)
I've highlighted the road in question below.
It has an Outer loop with 2 smaller, Inner loops. If anyone is familiar with the Arcade game "Maximum Tune : Wangan Midnight". This circuit is available, and it in certain mode, you circle all 3 loops (Starting with the Outer, Then the Middle, Then the inner - to complete the race)
So, Anyway...I have once again made some "Tiles" that will allow me to build the circuit like Lego, using good old Zmod (i know i know..)
Now with it being a city highway, its surrounded by typical Dense, Japanese infrastructure, of no doubt a few hundred buildings circle just this one highway. So i have started by modelling, in semi-detail, actual buildings surrounding the highway.
Now, i need "Help" Populating the exterior of the circuit with buildings. I'm currently aiming to do 1 building a day for the next few weeks. I'm using Google street view, to select a building, i take a few screenshots and off i go and work the magic in Sketch-up. As you can see my 2 examples above, not 100% accurate, but you will be blasting past at speed. so i doubt you will stop to take in the lovely Japanese apartment blocks and parking storage towers...
Now if any of you think you can model buildings, then i would like to ask you for your help! Hop on Google street view, select your building, Model away and post it here with relevant textures.
i think i will need approx 50 different buildings in order to create an environment that doesn't look like its been copy pasted, obviously each building will be used at least once, but working some texture magic could make the building completely different, therefore making 50 buildings look like 200 buildings...if you are following me.
in an ideal world i would like to make it accurate, but for the sake of stress and fun - I don't think i need to go into that much detail.
Following on from my old Highway build a few years ago (Still unfinished...) I've started a new track!
I'm sure everyone is familiar with the Osaka Loop/ Hanshin Line / "Kanjo Loop" By now. I want to re-create that atmosphere of the Midnight run darting between traffic, Hazards flashing...
This track was/ is intended for Assetto Corsa, But fortunately, i only know how to get tracks into good old Racer. So, lucky for you, Racer will be my test bed before someone no-doubt ports it over to their Game/ Simulator of choice.
(Link to the road on google maps - https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?sadd...164795&mra=mift&mrsp=0&sz=14&t=m&z=14&start=0)
I've highlighted the road in question below.
It has an Outer loop with 2 smaller, Inner loops. If anyone is familiar with the Arcade game "Maximum Tune : Wangan Midnight". This circuit is available, and it in certain mode, you circle all 3 loops (Starting with the Outer, Then the Middle, Then the inner - to complete the race)
So, Anyway...I have once again made some "Tiles" that will allow me to build the circuit like Lego, using good old Zmod (i know i know..)
Now with it being a city highway, its surrounded by typical Dense, Japanese infrastructure, of no doubt a few hundred buildings circle just this one highway. So i have started by modelling, in semi-detail, actual buildings surrounding the highway.
Now, i need "Help" Populating the exterior of the circuit with buildings. I'm currently aiming to do 1 building a day for the next few weeks. I'm using Google street view, to select a building, i take a few screenshots and off i go and work the magic in Sketch-up. As you can see my 2 examples above, not 100% accurate, but you will be blasting past at speed. so i doubt you will stop to take in the lovely Japanese apartment blocks and parking storage towers...
Now if any of you think you can model buildings, then i would like to ask you for your help! Hop on Google street view, select your building, Model away and post it here with relevant textures.
i think i will need approx 50 different buildings in order to create an environment that doesn't look like its been copy pasted, obviously each building will be used at least once, but working some texture magic could make the building completely different, therefore making 50 buildings look like 200 buildings...if you are following me.
in an ideal world i would like to make it accurate, but for the sake of stress and fun - I don't think i need to go into that much detail.
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