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RAIN and slippery wet tracks IS possible in GPL!

Magnus

RAIN and slippery wet tracks IS possible in GPL!

by Magnus » Sat, 26 Oct 2002 19:58:29

I've been thinking about this for a very very long time and finally
got around to experiment (thanks to some help from Guru and MadCowie).
What I did was to use the concept of snowing (at snowitude, Wow what a
breakthrough THAT was!) and change the snow mips to mips with small
gray dots being almost fully TRANSPARANT but not 100%. It works VERY
nicely. My current problem is I don't know how to edit the 3do to make
the rain fall faster (the snow falls slooooow)

But I've made some very light rain which works fine even when falling
this slow. I also have ready some REALLY heavy rain that looks GREAT
but that MUST fall faster. So waiting to learn to fix falling speed
there....

Now, I think you know that Mark Beckman has made three tracks with
slippery wet surfaces. And they most definitely work VERY well too
(try the wet Nrburgring!! It's SO cool... and hard, hehe!)! So add
these two things together and we could have wet slippery tracks with
rain falling! I'm pretty confident you can change the dust and dirt
clouds to wet spray too.... And ANY add-on track can be converted to
rain by the authors of the track!

Just unzip this file: http://www.racesimcentral.net/
your Snowitude folder to get a very slight drizzle of rain. And
pleeeeeze come back with comments on it :-)

/Magnus T

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Doug Elliso

RAIN and slippery wet tracks IS possible in GPL!

by Doug Elliso » Sat, 26 Oct 2002 20:06:01

If you could convert the dust plume to be watery - and somehow toggle it on
all the time - you're sorted :D
Doug

Ash

RAIN and slippery wet tracks IS possible in GPL!

by Ash » Sat, 26 Oct 2002 20:10:04


Hooo ho ho, how cool would that be :D

Ash
http://www.siroccoracing.com

Doug Elliso

RAIN and slippery wet tracks IS possible in GPL!

by Doug Elliso » Sat, 26 Oct 2002 20:25:12




> > > I'm pretty confident you can change the dust and dirt
> > > clouds to wet spray too....

> > If you could convert the dust plume to be watery - and somehow toggle it
> on
> > all the time - you're sorted :D
> > Doug

> Hooo ho ho, how cool would that be :D

> Ash
> http://www.siroccoracing.com

Even 4 years on - the dust looks cool in GPL - put many things to shame. (
and the engine blow ups )
Gerry Aitke

RAIN and slippery wet tracks IS possible in GPL!

by Gerry Aitke » Sun, 27 Oct 2002 00:46:55


> > I'm pretty confident you can change the dust and dirt
> > clouds to wet spray too....

> If you could convert the dust plume to be watery - and somehow toggle it on
> all the time - you're sorted :D
> Doug

Rooster tails! :)
Kendt Eklu

RAIN and slippery wet tracks IS possible in GPL!

by Kendt Eklu » Sun, 27 Oct 2002 04:07:38


> I've been thinking about this for a very very long time and finally
> got around to experiment (thanks to some help from Guru and MadCowie).
> What I did was to use the concept of snowing (at snowitude, Wow what a
> breakthrough THAT was!) and change the snow mips to mips with small
> gray dots being almost fully TRANSPARANT but not 100%. It works VERY
> nicely. My current problem is I don't know how to edit the 3do to make
> the rain fall faster (the snow falls slooooow)

[SNIP]

Toooooo cool :)!

Man, GPL just gets better and better.  I still think everyone who
signed the GPL2 petition should pony up $20-$40 to go in an escrow
fund that Dave K and Grant R can claim by putting the N2002 tire model
into GPL :).

Kendt

PS - haven't tried the wet tracks yet - call me a graphics ***, but
I wanted a visual effect as well ;).

Gerry Aitke

RAIN and slippery wet tracks IS possible in GPL!

by Gerry Aitke » Sun, 27 Oct 2002 04:22:05


> PS - haven't tried the wet tracks yet - call me a graphics ***, but
> I wanted a visual effect as well ;).

You graphics ***. ;)

Gerry

John Picket

RAIN and slippery wet tracks IS possible in GPL!

by John Picket » Sun, 27 Oct 2002 09:29:28



> > > I'm pretty confident you can change the dust and dirt
> > > clouds to wet spray too....

> > If you could convert the dust plume to be watery - and somehow toggle it
on
> > all the time - you're sorted :D
> > Doug

> Rooster tails! :)

Only on winged cars ;)
Joachim Trens

RAIN and slippery wet tracks IS possible in GPL!

by Joachim Trens » Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:43:12

I'd still wish that would happen. With more modern physics built into GPL,
I'd take it up again. Considering the trackbase GPL has, Papy might even be
able to make serious money out of an upgrade. Too sad it won't happen :(

Achim


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Magnus

RAIN and slippery wet tracks IS possible in GPL!

by Magnus » Mon, 28 Oct 2002 08:35:19

Not sure this works but here's a try:

http://www.racesimcentral.net/~hg/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=414856

and

http://www.racesimcentral.net/~hg/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=414857


> I'd still wish that would happen. With more modern physics built into GPL,
> I'd take it up again. Considering the trackbase GPL has, Papy might even be
> able to make serious money out of an upgrade. Too sad it won't happen :(

> Achim



> ...
> > Man, GPL just gets better and better.  I still think everyone who
> > signed the GPL2 petition should pony up $20-$40 to go in an escrow
> > fund that Dave K and Grant R can claim by putting the N2002 tire model
> > into GPL :).

> > Kendt

> > PS - haven't tried the wet tracks yet - call me a graphics ***, but
> > I wanted a visual effect as well ;).

Dave Henri

RAIN and slippery wet tracks IS possible in GPL!

by Dave Henri » Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:16:21

  Magnus...why ....why...would I want something that DECREASES the grip in
GPL???   I can't hang on to what they have now...!!!  :)
dave henrie


> Not sure this works but here's a try:

> http://www.racesimcentral.net/~hg/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=414856

> and

> http://www.racesimcentral.net/~hg/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=414857




> > I'd still wish that would happen. With more modern physics built into
GPL,
> > I'd take it up again. Considering the trackbase GPL has, Papy might even
be
> > able to make serious money out of an upgrade. Too sad it won't happen :(

> > Achim



> > ...
> > > Man, GPL just gets better and better.  I still think everyone who
> > > signed the GPL2 petition should pony up $20-$40 to go in an escrow
> > > fund that Dave K and Grant R can claim by putting the N2002 tire model
> > > into GPL :).

> > > Kendt

> > > PS - haven't tried the wet tracks yet - call me a graphics ***, but
> > > I wanted a visual effect as well ;).


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