Tracks Wijchen by PaleoPixels 1.25

[Bjorn Klaassen]

Bjorn Klaassen submitted a new resource:

Wijchen 1.0 by PaleoPixels - Wijchen - A street course in a small town from the Netherlands

Over the past few months I've created a procedural framework in Houdini in my spare time, with which you can relatively easy create tracks from scratch. It is procedural, which means it could load whatever Openstreetmap data and generate Amsterdam, New York or London.
Since it's a procedural, it's non-destructive, meaning that everything remains live so the developer can keep iterating without destroying previous steps.

A proof concept is this track called Wijchen, a track situated in this...

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[Cote Dazur]

Why have you decided to make it a track withing the city as opposed to just have streets in the city?

 

[misobl]

i have error when I try to extract with winrar file damaged or corupted

 

[RasmusP]

i have error when I try to extract with winrar file damaged or corupted

You'll probably need to either update your winrar or just use 7zip instead.

 

[misobl]

You'll probably need to either update your winrar or just use 7zip instead.

is not a problem in my program, my program works in other things only your file is infected

 

[Bjorn Klaassen]

Why have you decided to make it a track withing the city as opposed to just have streets in the city?

Better flow in corners, otherwise it was too much start/stop for my taste

 

[LilSki]

You can't use png and jpg files as your textures. You must use DDS formatted textures and they should always be in powers of 2 like 1024, 2048, 4096, etc. You technically can use none DDS texture as you have done but it will always eat up too much VRAM.

 

[Bjorn Klaassen]

You can't use png and jpg files as your textures. You must use DDS formatted textures and they should always be in powers of 2 like 1024, 2048, 4096, etc. You technically can use none DDS texture as you have done but it will always eat up too much VRAM.

Interesting, I shall give it a go in a new version. Thanks man!

 

[ALB123]

I wasn't going to post this as a "Review" because I would have had to give it 1 star. i7 CPU, 16GB RAM and two 965 in SLI 8GB Total VRAM and I was getting 17-19 FPS. I took the two first corners and had to quit. Hopefully it will become considerably less resource hungry as you learn ways to optimize the track. I really, really like the premise. It sounds so interesting to me. Good luck! I will keep my eye on this thread, of course, so I will try it again once you fix the textures like Lilski pointed out.

 

[RasmusP]

I wasn't going to post this as a "Review" because I would have had to give it 1 star. i7 CPU, 16GB RAM and two 965 in SLI 8GB Total VRAM and I was getting 17-19 FPS. I took the two first corners and had to quit. Hopefully it will become considerably less resource hungry as you learn ways to optimize the track. I really, really like the premise. It sounds so interesting to me. Good luck! I will keep my eye on this thread, of course, so I will try it again once you fix the textures like Lilski pointed out.

Vram isn't doubled in sli. Only one Vram is used but both cores.
Not saying anything about the track, it's just for your information

 

[Bjorn Klaassen]

Yeah I'm going to convert all my textures to DDS, let's see how it goes from there.

 

[AccAkut]

Doesn't even load here, just deadlocks AC while loading with the harddrive working without end

 

[Bjorn Klaassen]

Doesn't even load here, just deadlocks AC while loading with the harddrive working without end

What are your system specs?

 

[AccAkut]

8 GB RAM and single RX580 4 GB, so even less than ALB. This happened also with a bunch of RTB made tracks with the same texture issue. Internal conversion of the png and jpeg multiplies the VRAM usage as its uncompressed. A 8192x8192 jpeg or png for example will be over 200 MB on its own once loaded.

 

[Bjorn Klaassen]

8 GB RAM and single RX580 4 GB, so even less than ALB. This happened also with a bunch of RTB made tracks with the same texture issue. Internal conversion of the png and jpeg multiplies the VRAM usage as its uncompressed. A 8192x8192 jpeg or png for example will be over 200 MB on its own once loaded.

Ah, I wasn't aware that is was such a big problem. I'll try to get it fixed within an hour, not sure if I'll manage but stay tuned.

 

[LilSki]

When you get a chance browse through this post. Not everything applies to you but the first post has good info in it.

https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/proper-technique-in-track-making-plus-tips.122794/

 

[RasmusP]

is not a problem in my program, my program works in other things only your file is infected

btw, latest winrar version on my PC and all works fine. You probably just need to re-download the track, or as said, update winrar.

 

[Bjorn Klaassen]

When you get a chance browse through this post. Not everything applies to you but the first post has good info in it.

https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/proper-technique-in-track-making-plus-tips.122794/

Allright, the conversion shaved of 1,6 GB of memory usage on this machine with a 4GB GTX970...it went from 3.5 GB to 1.9 GB. Hope to wrap it fast and re-upload it. Again, thanks @LilSki

 

[Bjorn Klaassen]

Don't download just yet, apparently the AI is broken now


Bjorn Klaassen updated Wijchen 1.0 by PaleoPixels with a new update entry:

Update with fix with video memory usage

Changelog:

1.0 - initial release
1.05 - video-memory issues addressed with conversion to DDS of all textures where possible

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[Bjorn Klaassen]

Hm I think for the next version I'll up the amount of vegetation again, suddenly there's a lot more headroom in memory usage