Zandvoort WIP

New track converted by Radiator Springs Racing: Zandvoort. Coming soon

Zandvoort was my prohibited dream. After my track day on that circuit, I always wanted to drive on it with my favourite sim.

We tried multiple times to convert this track, but all the times we faced very big issues with that.
Few days ago, I decided to try it again, since we have learnt new techniques lately, so it should be now possible to have a good results.



Gek is helping me, developing new tools to optimize the 3d and help us finding bumps. The previous video was actually created to analyse the track, that was originally extremely bumpy.

Now after Bessie (Gek's technique to smooth bumps) did his work, it's pretty much how it should be!

mate your dream come true...and ready I have..this for you..


.. may be you can see??? ..one of the tre..looks like you????? WD Mate

Hell yeah!! That's what i'm talking about!! My home track! I work at Slotemakers anti-skid school, right next to this track!

AWESOME!

Maarten, I will ask you for some photos then, so we can improve the textures. I was actually planning to go back there to take some shots.

looks verry nice Great track to drive. Manny different corners and heights. Zandvoort is one on my favoriete tracks. Keep up the good work

Riches has released a big bunch of new previews, showing the progress made with his 2010 Zandvoort Masters track for rFactor, Race On & netKar Pro.
The shots let us check out the amazing details and textures he has managed to include, the track will be in beta testing shortly.

Riches has released a big bunch of new previews, showing the progress made with his 2010 Zandvoort Masters track for rFactor, Race On & netKar Pro. The shots let us check out the amazing details and textures he has managed to include, the track will be in beta testing shortly.

Link:
Zandwoort Masters Edition

yes Riches track looks absolutely amazing. I m really looking forward to it. In the meanwhile we will convert our own, that we are modifying deeply. There are a lot of errors, especially in the altimetry of the track in few parts of the track, and it was full of bumps. Absolutely not driveble in the original version. We are adding details to the track also, to make it closer to the real one.
The SimBin base is pretty decent, but to be honest this scratch made version done by Riches, looks much better. It's absolutely wonderful!

Tribuna di Zandvoort completata con un nuovo metodo di texturing..il resto è ancora da completare, ma promette bene.
Notare i controluce , le ombreggiature di tutte le parti della tribuna , dal tetto , ringhiere e seggiolini

Nice job Gek!

completely new textures using new mapping techniques, new 3d...wow! Fantastic work, Gek!
your new technique, is really nice. Shadows and depth of field on each single element. That looks so real!
Every single piece of wood that hold the roof, or any single element of the structure has a different colour!
And then, the final touch: the seats composing F. Gek

I can't wait. After procuring the old GPC beta I've been lusting after this track for sometime

Veramente bella!
Alquanto realistica.
Bravo

molto belli questi screen shot, le luci e ombre sono notevolmente migliorate...ben fatto complimenti ps: state innalzando il livello grafico di Nkp !

OMG that looks wonderful! I feel like i am there haha! Great work m8! Cannot believe how real that looks!
Maarten

Complimenti, bravissimo Fulvio.
Questi dettagli sono quelli che fanno la differenza.

un bel team di fotografi gli rsr :-)

f.gek wrote:un bel team di fotografi gli rsr :-)

si..si
ma mi farò vivo per capire bene che procedura usi per la mappatura 3d, veramente un ottimo lavoro Fulvio.

Continuano i lavori a Zandvoort...

Il nuovo traliccio dello start


Vista dall'interno della torre


La nuova parte superiore dei box


I box quasi completati

Mauro Delegà wrote:

Guys after Mugello this is ur second scratch track?

Wow! e' incredibile! Lavoro fantastico, gek!
mi hai lasciato senza parole!

Vaggelis Theodoridis wrote:
Guys after Mugello this is ur second scratch track?

This started as a conversion, but evolved in a completely different track. The original was completely wrong: wrong elevations, wrong banking, very bumpy. Further more was quite old too, with old grandstand and many other objects around the track.

Gek is transforming the track completely, reconstructing from scratch the full track. He, as a proud director of the Radiator Springs Research and Development Team, is studying different modeling and mapping techniques, and with some new ideas, is creating new methods to smooth the track, level it up, deform it in a easier way, but even checking it's correctness (with a video iprojecting the track in max synchronized with the position on the track), and a lot of new ways to map textures on the objects to give them depth of field, shadowing, and to make them more alive. A lot of very advanced methods that, when he try to explain to us, we are always shocked.
As a result, he is creating something I've never seen in nkpro. Believe me, you it looks great from the static picture, it's seriously stunning when you are in game because it change when you move around because it react to the light...
Gek, maybe a small video will do the trick!

so with a very accurate construction plan of the track, and

come on!! Don't leave us hanging like this! I can't wait to see something :-D

M.