zimluura Wrote:and after thinking about that for a little while i threw in some low-poly placeholder meshes for the engine, intercooler, turbo, exhaust, driveshaft, rear differential, axles, fuel cell, and radiator.

the last two things i can really think to do is the window and hood molding. then afterwards all of this will be joined together for a single interior.joe file which will be a very drawn out process to texture. since i'm more of a modeler than a texture-er i always find myself saying "why am i fussing with this in a texture?? why not add more detail to the mesh??"

zimluura Wrote:1. i'm currently on a athlon64x2 @ 2.2ghz, 2gb ram, geforce 7900gt. built some ~18 months ago. i've been getting carried away with the polycount (to say the least) cause i'm at ~12500 polys. but my framerate (with the old engine) never drops from 85 (which is the refresh on the monitor). so i'm guessing this is all still good. am i right?

zimluura Wrote:2. does anyone have a windows exe for a recent build that can run stable for like 5 minutes or so?? it would really help. the last release still defaults your keys everytime you restart, so when i do an ingame look around i have to remap everything first. also tempted to add more polygons to even out the lighting. but this might be useless with a specular map (don't know for sure, haven't worked with those much, but per-pixel specular sounds like it could do the trick).

zimluura Wrote:3. i started throwing together a driver mesh. right now he looks like a goon, but is a driver mesh part of the plan? as in seperate from the car, can be plugged into any car??

zimluura Wrote:now a requst:
not to sound like a broken mp3, but i think it would make the art generation easier if cars could be split into lots of different .joe files (have a model list in each .car file). doesn't have much impact on mesh making, but it would help texturing a whole bunch. 'cause then i could get the radiator looking nice, and map all it's uv coords. then move to the next thing. this is an extreme case (cause i've modeled tons of internals for when you see through the grills on front and top) but my actual interior looks weak, and will need lots of little tweaks to make it look nice.

zimluura Wrote:but as it stands now, when i add polygons to the seat then i'll have to redo the uv coords on my exhaust pipe (yay!!).

zimluura Wrote:maybe not enough power loss in the awd drivetrain

Quote:i don't foresee it putting on too many more faces. i think with another 1000 i would have the inside looking really really nice

Quote:if there's a skeletal system there then that would be able to make the driver steer the car, look around, jump out of the car and run to safety as it explodes

Quote:every so often i get an svn then kill some time trying to compile it in vc6.

joevenzon Wrote:The AWD code is a bit of a hack so you might have to manually cut down on the power to compensate....

joevenzon Wrote:If I get a chance I'll try to compile a windows version for ya. What we really need is a proper windows release, though. :-)

zimluura Wrote:when i do uv mapping i usually start off with the unwrap command. then re-position things a little bit.
blender does seem to compensate for edge and face cuts (shift+k), which could work. but its behavior is a little strange when you extrude. and i'm guessing it has some problems when you apply a mirror, then start tweaking one side differently from another. small stuff like a gas door (or the little thingy on the hood of the tc6) will likely cause a little bit of problem.

zimluura Wrote:ok, i'll work on splitting up the tc6 the way i'm thinking of...
...1.5 hours later

http://zimluura.googlepages.com/tc6_ext.zip

each has a single color, low res texture. should look sortof ok when it gets loaded. size is really reasonable, but that's 'cause there are no high res textures. only a few of them will need to be high res in the end.

zimluura Wrote:every so often i get an svn then kill some time trying to compile it in vc6. so far, how the includes are laid out is different enough to stop me in my tracks. i might give some time to that for a second to see if i can (it's the only ide i know, aside from turbo c++ 3 for dos). when that fails misserably i'll take a shot at following the instructions . but i guess this is what i should work on for a bit. if no-one else is on it.

thelusiv Wrote:Could you submit an issue report about this?

thelusiv Wrote:On textures: should each individual model have its own texture? I think each object should have the texture set in the .car file. That way, some objects can share textures. Joe, what do you think?

thelusiv Wrote:Hmm, I started off using unwrap, but I found it was easier to select a subset of the faces, and then use the "Project from View" method of UV mapping. That way you can go above the car, select the faces that mostly face the top, and then map them; look at the side of the car, select the faces that face in that direction, and map them; etc. Afterwards you can position the different sides in a way that is sort of like unwrapping them.

The trouble I had with unwrapping was that certain faces would be scaled differently than others, making textures get applied in an inconsistent manner. So for instance if I wanted a pinstripe that went down the side of the car, it would be thicker in certain parts and thinner in others. Thus I switched to projection because it kept things proportional to how they really were. Take a look at the XS texture (and the UV mapping in the .blend fine as well if you like) for an example of what I mean.