MotorSketch
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@wacov said:
:berserk: Thanks! Is it really that hard?
I've been playtesting it too much! Jumping straight on the bridge is essential; I'll see if I can't make the landing easier. It's taken quite a while, but I enjoy making stuff like this.Good idea; breakable finish line should look great! What do you mean by the loop? Like a mini-track?
I dont think it is too hard. Made it through on my next try.
I was thinking a loop the loop. You know, upside down. Might not be very easy tho.
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Ah... I tried a loop in an early test track; because SU's camera doesn't like going upside down, it's very hard to control, and the camera goes crazy as you go up and come down.
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that is realy good wacov
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Thanks everyone! What really annoys me is that the slowdowns as I increase the size and complexity are totally due to SketchUp's inefficient renderer. I've had to increase the simulation's framerate to compensate, and this destabilises the physics. The friction engine just gives up, so the buggy starts sliding at random intervals; I don't want to see the textures go though! Is it even remotely possible to use an open source game renderer, or a custom one, during the simulation??
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Possible. But a fair amount of work.
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I've finally made version 1.0!! Replaced the wierd wooden curve thing, fixed the wheel wobble, and adden a few more objects to the track. There's now a proper image for it as well! I'm very proud of this thing, so have a play and tell me what you think:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=1ecbf5daa2d898966cd8ad826e9017b8
Some of the textures have been re-done; no more visible edges! The dirt and cliff textures were tiled using a program I got, and every last texture is from CGtextures.com (Thanks BTM!). I think the 8MB size is worth it, the textures really look good.
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Amazing! Its a real polished game. Congrats Wacov!
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Thanks! But one thing I've been noticing is the drive and boost controls keep cutting out randomly. It kinda ruins it, but I didn't see anyone else mentioning it... is it just me? As far as I can tell there is nothing wrong with my scripts, and it used to work fine.
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What program did you use to tile them? That could really help me.
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It's called seamless texture generator. It's really easy to use, but I had to pay £45! I know about free ones, but they're way too complicated; this one blends the edges nicely, can remove highlights, and can do perspective correction and cropping. You can make textures any resolution you like, but the filesize gets pretty huge; which is bad for uploads. Again, it's £45, so not spectacular value; kinda depends on how much you're gona use it. Try the demo, it sticks a logo over the image you make, but you can see it working.
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@wacov said:
It's called seamless texture generator. It's really easy to use, but I had to pay £45! I know about free ones, but they're way too complicated; this one blends the edges nicely, can remove highlights, and can do perspective correction and cropping. You can make textures any resolution you like, but the filesize gets pretty huge; which is bad for uploads. Again, it's £45, so not spectacular value; kinda depends on how much you're gona use it. Try the demo, it sticks a logo over the image you make, but you can see it working.
Anyone tried corel texture. i have it kicking around on a disc somewhere. Had it installed on an old machine and found it quite easy once you get hang of it. Not got it on my laptop and didn't have sketchup on old machine. anyone tried it with sketchup?
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