VDrift Graphical Upgrades

[zimluura]

the segments around the tire are adjustable. i've done 3 segment tri-angular wheels, and the highest was like 1024 segment super smooth.

the segments for the sidewalls and treads are not adjustable. i'm sure this would be do-able. but i think the function will need to have an arbitrary amount of 2d vectors to define the sidewall bulge.

i was thinking we'd (i'd) have to rebuild all the existing rim meshes. make them all have a 1meter radius (maybe a 1m depth as well for simplicities sake) and then get scaled. if the importer can get the wheel back into blender, than this should be just a little tedious. i envision each car having its own default rim-style(s). and then a whole bunch of after-market styles. and yeah, all would be done by hand.

do you think i should build a similar mesh construction function for the outer edge of the rim? and how about the brake rotor.

also, been pondering lod. because the tire is the tough one and is out of the way. it should be fairly easy to write low-lod functions for all of these too. the tire lod would have an outside wall, and a tread. the rim edge the same. and the brake-rotor-lod could even use an alpha-blended textured quad (with the same texture as the regular rotor.

here's the app with source if you want to look it over
http://sites.google.com/site/zimluuraprojects/code

edit - that code is a little bit messy - mostly 'cause of some half-written uncalled functions and that don't do anything yet. and it includes GLee (which isn't used at all).