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Demonkah

09 Jul : 18:45

I'll upload them today

DonnieBrasco

08 Jul : 22:08

all our skins are only for tdu2.

feel free to share your stuff in the respective thread.

Demonkah

08 Jul : 11:33

I have a basic question.
Are the demand high on skins for the TDU2 cars?
I have recently playing around in photoshop and made a few skins for cars.

If so how do I upload them?

fo0k

28 Jun : 17:42

well its on hold.. we got pretty far and have some working sports / offroad vehicles going in it.. but making the whole thing work as a game just started to look like years more..

this xthrust thing, which was supposed to be a super lightweght game to get us off the blocks has already taken a year to yet to where it is.. big high res FPS stuff needsto wait until more time available.. have to work ofc around all this is the problem.. need money from the game to make the game to make the money

Nobby76

27 Jun : 20:40

Thats cool dude. What ever happened to that other game you was working on, that you created the giant terrain mesh for.

fo0k

25 Jun : 18:13

you are right.. and yeah give it a look its 2 button simple madness.

DonnieBrasco

24 Jun : 04:00

Hey fo0k, when i have more time i probably will take a look into it.

But why don't you introduce the game in the forum? I guess that's better than the chatbox.

fo0k

23 Jun : 18:05

evening tdumods.. The following might explain my radio silence around these parts for the past couple of years..

We're testing a PC game that I have been working on with a 3 man team.
It's called xthrust.. and its simple.. but also difficult..
Its like side view trackmania in sewers with rocket drones. ..I think.

Hope to see you in the servers to help test this thing.
Download it here: [Clickety Click]

DonnieBrasco

22 Jun : 07:52

Since i have pedals and shifter there would never be a need to do that. But i like to drive with the shifter and not with the pedals.

And i guess you also can't drive 7-gear-cars with shifter in FH3.

Audrey8

21 Jun : 05:51

There's no reason to do that on FH3. I mean I've never felt the need to at least. Regardless you can't do it anyway.

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Nobby76

Thu May 14 2015, 02:58PM

Joined: Mon Oct 24 2011, 09:06AM

Just another quick post.. another render for the gfx site..
This time it was the new Ford GT.. I came 3rd this time yay!

click to see bigger

Asg16_4

Thu May 14 2015, 07:17PM

Registered Member #856
Joined: Mon Dec 03 2012, 02:25PM

I think you should have kept the original's brightness because the refection of light off the road looks super funky

Anyways great render

I would go back to trying to attempt modding tdu2 but since minime's video tuts are gone I have nothing to help me.

Nobby76

Fri May 15 2015, 07:03AM

Joined: Mon Oct 24 2011, 09:06AM

what do you mean "kept the original brightness" i haven't done anything to the brightness. its using a HDRI map, the brightness comes FROM the image.

Asg16_4

Fri May 15 2015, 06:00PM

Registered Member #856
Joined: Mon Dec 03 2012, 02:25PM

It looks like the original background pic came from speedhunters... [Clickety Click]

Nobby76

Tue Jul 14 2015, 06:25PM

Joined: Mon Oct 24 2011, 09:06AM

Had a mess about with rendering a 3d stereoscopic image, but not an anaglyph (red/blue) image... If you notice at the top of both the left and right pictures there is a white dot.. If you go cross eyed until both dots meet to form just one dot the image should suddenly pop into 3d.. Have fun..

Click to see full screen..

Nobby76

Sun Aug 30 2015, 12:42AM

Joined: Mon Oct 24 2011, 09:06AM

Hey guys.. *waves to anyone/everyone*

Here's something i have been working on recently and thought i would share with the group.
It's a little long, so ive split it up into 3 sections, to avoid TL/DR and to stop the page being a fortnight long.

Prologue:

Part 1:

Part 2:

Apart from the paint job, this looked rather similar to a real RC monster truck i used to own as a kid, called "LunchBox" It was a bright yellow van with some big cartoony stickers on the side. It turns out the LunchBox was actually based on a dodge van, but lets not let that stop us in our endeavors...

I needed to do a few things first, to turn it from the A-Team, into the LunchBox...
Besides the obvious of swapping the paint texture for a new one, what i did was.. Changed the colour of the shocks and wheels to yellow (to match the real RC car) I wanted to keep the wheels (they are actually from the Delorean) but i noticed monster truck wheels (real or RC) are very deep wheel hubs, so i sank the wheel hubs deeper into the hub, to give them that monster truck feel.
THEN came the fun of creating the new texture for the paint skin..

I found some hires, side on photos of the real RC car, online. I thought i could use those to create the whole side texture, but the image was a different scale to the models template so i couldn't get it to resize and fit the texture and had to scrap that idea. So i then thought i could just cut the stickers out of the photos and use them on my texture. So i tried that and it did work, but it didn't look great. Despite the photos being hires they were still slightly blurry around all the edges of the stickers (compression artifacts) so i needed to try and find a better alternative.

Eventually i found someone had scanned in the actual decals supplied with the real RC car kit. I started by cutting out the stickers i would need (there was only 3, they are just duplicated on the other side) and saving each one out to its own image. I then loaded each one into a vector program, i needed to make it a vector for several reasons. It smooths out all the lines, it cleans up all the compression artifacts giving you nice solid colours and it also means i can resize the image to almost any size i want (i opted for double the size) I then resaved those new cleaner higher res images and used those as my stickers for the new skin. Once that was done, i could reload the scene and just swap the things i had changed for the new versions. Then i was ready to render the images.. Again..

Anyway here are the results of said render..
As usual "click to see bigger" Best viewed fullsized (not the same as fullscreen) to appreciate the DOF (depth of field) more.

The reflections in the side of the van didn't show as much as id liked, despite it having the exact same settings as before, just a different colour map. I guess certain colours just don't show certain things very well.

For those interested in the details..

Render specs: Polygon count = 1,044,447.
Room pass = 3840x2160 (2xHD) 8 passes of AA, light dome to simulate the sun + a small light to cast some slightly sharper shadows, full radiosity lighting and caustics.. Render time = 1h41m (57m to calculate radiosity, 44m to actually render it)
Van pass = Same as above, but the van got 12 passes of Anti Aliasing instead of 8. Render time = 33m (no radiosity calculated, it was cached from previous render)
Total render time for both images (4 renders, background then foreground, for image 1 and 2) = approx 4h30m

Again i rendered the room and the van as separate layers, brought them into photo shop, tweaked the white balance levels slightly. Then i applied different amounts of bokeh (iris blur) to the room and the van to fake the Dof again, combined the two layers into one, then resized the image to 2880x1620 and saved!

Despite the reflections not coming out quite as good as i would have liked, overall i think the renders came out great, i was really pleased with the new texture and the way the Dof worked.

Hope you like it too..

Nobby76

Wed May 04 2016, 05:44PM

Joined: Mon Oct 24 2011, 09:06AM

This is what i've been playing about with recently.
click to see the images bigger..

So does this look familiar to anyone? NO???

How about now...

OK you have to know now....

For those of you that still don't recognise the location. It is Diamond Head monument (volcano crater) in the south east of Oahu. In TDU2 there is a ferrari dealership and the Casino very close by..

To answer some questions.
WTF am i looking at??
Pic 1 is a 3d point cloud, the results of scanning something with a laser scanner (in this case done from a plane)
Pic 2 is a 3d mesh which is the result of converting said point cloud into actual 3d geometry.
Pic 3 is just a closeup of the previously mentioned 3d mesh.. You can actually see parked cars around buildings and even the ripples in the ocean to the south of the volcano.

Did this come from/ going to be put in the game?? Ill answer the second one first..
No.. lol .. This is far too much data for the tdu engine to deal with (or any game engine for that matter)
No this didn't come from Tdu either, this stuff is way more hires than the terrain used in TDU. I DO have access to the Tdu2 terrain meshes so i know what its "mesh density" is like and it is quite hires, but this is Super hires.
This actually came from the USGS site (united states geological survey) they have data on all sorts of things to do with the land and water around America.

So how hires is this stuff anyway?
If you don't understand about 3d models and stuff like that, this might be a bit confusing.. All 3d models are made from points (dots) and polygons (little flat sheets) if you join 4 points together you get a square polygon (or rectangular). 3d models are measured in complexity by their polygon count (how many polygons are used to make the model)

A simple cube is made from 6 polygons..
A tdu car is a bit more complex, and will probably come in at around 100,000-150,000 polygons (which is nothing really)
A standard Forza 4 car comes in at around 150,000-300,000 polygons. And a forza 4 Autovista model comes in at around 450,000- 700,000 polygons.
TDU2.. For the area shown in pic 2 you are probably talking about 5 million polygons. These USGS meshes come in at around 50 million polygons (ten times more polygons than TDU)

So what are you doing with this stuff? why do you have it?
Im a freelance digital artist, i also play about with 3d meshes and animation for fun. I wanted to use this in conjunction with some fighter jet meshes i have to make a cool little jet fight animation..

Asg16_4

Wed May 04 2016, 08:10PM

Registered Member #856
Joined: Mon Dec 03 2012, 02:25PM

Holy shit!

Nobby76

Wed May 04 2016, 09:45PM

Joined: Mon Oct 24 2011, 09:06AM

Asg16_4 wrote ...

Holy shit!

That's what she said !

Nobby76

Thu Nov 03 2016, 09:45PM

Joined: Mon Oct 24 2011, 09:06AM

OK it's been a while since i posted in this thread (back in may to be precise)
Just thought i would show off a few pics i did for a render contest, i came 4th out of about 300 people. For coming 4th i got a bunch of software(worth about $3,000) plus some other little bits and pieces..

Anyway, here's the renders i did of the fantastic Porsche 918..
As always click to see bigger...

For those that care and are interested...

It's the 918 spyder model from the racing sim Assetto corsa.. The model consists of 260,000 polygons..

Each image was rendered twice..
First a low res render just to calculate the lighting and occlusions (960x540 half HD) with just 2 passes of anti aliasing. Each of those lores renders took approx 12 mins each..

Then once it has calculated the lighting and can cache it, i did the proper quality render.. which was 3840x2160 (double HD) with 24 passes of Anti aliasing (TDU only does 8 passes of AA in the game) and a very slight blur effect (done inside the renderer, not in photoshop) each of those 3 renders took approx 35 mins each.

Which is still crazy fast render times, most renderers would take about 2 hours or more to render the same thing..

Enjoy!

Asg16_4

Fri Nov 04 2016, 03:53PM

Registered Member #856
Joined: Mon Dec 03 2012, 02:25PM

PNS licence plate! Nice render mate, did they specify that you cant use a background?

Nobby76

Sat Nov 05 2016, 12:19AM

Joined: Mon Oct 24 2011, 09:06AM

Lol yeah, nobody on the contest spotted that, it was a mate yesterday realised what the plate said and asked about it. My reply was "Any Porsche is just a guys pns extention

"

Nope, just had to be a render of a sports car.
But in fairness i am using a background, just it's a studio background.. If there was no background it would just be black (or some other solid colour)
Studio shots are easier to light than using a backplate or HDRI environment and you get a much more even lighting with them

Nobby76

Wed Dec 14 2016, 01:09PM

Joined: Mon Oct 24 2011, 09:06AM

Something i worked on last week for this months render contest on our gfx site.. I actually won last month so i got to pick the cars for this month.

I went with a 1965 ford transit mk1 and a 1957 Fiat 1200 Granluce.
Here are the renders i did.. As always click to see bigger

For those interested.. Each render took 2 goes like normal.. first go was to calculate the Global illuminations (lighting) second render was to actually render the images.
These were surprisingly quick to render.. First pass took about 7 minutes for each image. Second pass took about 9 minutes each.
Rendered at 3840x2160 (double hd) with 12 passes of Anti aliasing with full global illumination..

Then loaded into photoshop to have the Pop art (transit) and particle (Fiat) effects applied to them. Yes the image effects are photoshop actions, not something the 3d application was doing

Enjoy: Nobby

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