Racetrack asphalt texture how to#

The spec doesn't need to be too high in detail. Put some detail in your diffuse but not too much variation otherwise you will see it repeat down the track. It's a good idea to take screenshots in RF & keep track of your settings so that you can compare them for the best result. The critical one for detail is the bump map.Д®xperiment with different levels of detail & your scale untill you find a good mix. Spec - 512 x 512 (Edit Materials) Scale X=1 Y=0.5 MIP= -2 I pretty much agree with woochoo's method.Дiffuse - 2048 x 1024 (Edit Materials) Scale X=1 Y=0.5 MIP= -4Д«ump - 512 x 512 (Edit Materials) Scale X=4 Y=4 MIP= -2 The detail on them is more in the diffuse & less in the bump when really it should be the other way around. The Ennis road textures are ok but if I had my time again I would do it differently. But the small details like individual stones will be from the bump and spec maps i'd say. So the principals i've used are (nothing new) high detail, uniform, seamless bump and spec maps at 512x512 (tiled 4 or 5 times), over a seamless, uniform (if not bland) 1024 diffuse map (stretched to cover 12 meters in btb)ДЄlso (without having played iracing) it looks like they've used an alpha 'decal' of tyre marks over that part of the road to add some flavour (and yeah, it sure looks tastey). If you have, say, a light spot, dark spot, tyre mark on your regular map then you'll see that every 10-12 meters or so, and at high speed, that's many times per second, and it just doesn't work well. In terms of the regular diffuse road map, it seems to me that you don't really want too much detail in that, or at least not too much unique detail. FWIW i've just scratch made some new road textures for Longford. I think i'm using 512x512 for Longford, and they're tiled over the road four or five times, so that makes something like 2048x2048 worth of detail, over the top of my 1024x1024 road texture. Yeah, bump and specular maps are key to the fine detail.

Racetrack asphalt texture how to#

I guess maybe my rambling post is more about how to achieve a good texture technique then! Some rfactor tracks do achieve this sense of scale however.

Hence my question about upping the pixel dimensions.

Some rF tracks seem to get close to this however. For example, when you look at a photo of a real track, 13m of asphalt across the width of the track looks like 13m (obviously!!!), whereas a texture of 1024 pixels wide trying to represent 13m doesn't quite have the same sense of distance or scale. When I compare my textures to some rF tracks I see out there, mine don't seem to have the same sense of scale however. I guess as you say it's down to the artistry of the graphics and the monitor resolution it's displayed on. However this is on a 2560x1600 monitor like Emery. It adds more perceivable detail over 1024. I just made and tested a 2048 wide x 1024 where width is across the track. Yeah I have checked out ennis's stuff in the past (very good it is too).