Hello All

Firstly apologies, I'm afraid I don't speak Italian
I've been looking round this forum for some time, checking out the great tracks some of you guys are developing, and also reading the tutorials etc. So I thought I'd try my own conversion of Brands Hatch from rFactor.

Thanks to the advice on here it's been going pretty well (after starting again from scratch 3 or 4 times ). But what I can't work out is how to properly implement the Start lights and Pit lights.

I'm sure I read somewhere that I'ts got something to do with detaching the objects by ID? Do the lights have to be not detached?
I'm totally confused.

If someone could please point me in the direction of a guide on how to do this or offer me some advice (or even a .max file so I could see for myself ) I would be very, very grateful indeed. It would mean hopefully I can get my track finished and uploaded for all.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Gary.

Hi Gary, don't worry about the language. The official language here is English, with some Italian also...

Lights in nk works pretty differently from rf. you can find here some infomations about it

About detaching, the reason is that netKar don't allow to use multimaterial objects, therefore you need to detach them.

If you are converting from rf, you can delete some objects created for rf like sectors planes, lights planes (i mean the red and and green planes to create the light effect).

I hope this help.
I don't have so much experience with track conversion, I just know the basics.
If you still have problems, please let us know. Someone else can help you out for sure

Thanks for the quick reply Andrea

So if I understand it correctly, as long as I've got the actual lense objects (usually little squares) ,named correctly i.e LIGHT_red, LIGHT_green, netkar will understand this and work ok?

I don't need the glowing red and green textures that export from rFactor?

It's difficult to test without having a race

yes, correct. you can delet the glowing red.
I advise you to use the lights ON textures from some of the nk tracks like aviano, for example.
Those just need to cover the lights OFF of your starting lights.

The best way is to check if lights are ON in practice (offline)
and then create a server and join to see if lights are OFF once you join the server

Are the Pit light supported in netKar?

As far as I understand no, but can you please confirm me?

no pit lights. but, as someone suggested would be a nice feature.

Andrea Lojelo wrote:no pit lights. but, as someone suggested would be a nice feature.

Yes, definitively a nice feature. I asked in the Wish list thread of DI, even if I don't trust a lot that kind of thread!

Better if someone ask from "inside" to kunos! ;-)

Just to say, thanks a lot for the help. Lights are working fine now

They aren't working for me, is there anything I have to add to the Lights? Like a second material in front of the normal light, with the starting light on it?
My problem is, everytime I start a race the lights are just black textures till the point where they should go red, then they have the correct texture.

Create additional planes just infront of the lights. Name them and map the correct textures (the green & red lights). They should then work.

this is what we usually use for the lights.
small planes, with lights ON textures, to position just in front of your lights (OFF).

Do I have to make them transparent? (the ON textures/planes)
Because before they go on they look like this in a race: Lights
In Practice everything is fine and they are on at all times.
So, Transparent, Shader what have I missed?
EDIT: Making them transparent, didn't work. Is it correct to have the LIGHT_on textures assigned to the planes as material (in max)?

Are your lights working (if you setup a server on your own you should see the red appear (then the server will reset as they go green))? You might be having the same problem I have at Mountain Sprint, I tried literally everything to try and fix it, but was just left confused as there wasn't a problem with the start lights @ Osch' (or any other track I checked).

Yes they are working in race (but only when they are supposed to) and in practice, but pre-start they are black. (Not totally you can see the green and red lights a little bit).
Okay, then it's a bit of a surprise when the lights appear at the start of the race.

Same problem then, I wish I could help you cos then I'd know