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What would be your priority for the next Testdrive?

Same play area as TDU2 but with better graphics

Same graphics as TDU2 but bigger play area

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DonnieBrasco
26 Mar : 11:25
I played only for a couple of hours until i had enough again of the handling. I'm waiting until they maybe can improve the handlingmodel.

fo0k
28 Feb : 21:44
Cool to hear, Donnie. I notice it’s down atm. How was it?

DonnieBrasco
10 Feb : 22:50
btw the TDU World server is public since the last weekend. I already did a small testrun.

Asg16_4
06 Jan : 05:42
Here is a rough preview. It's not even a months worth of progress. [Clickety Click]

I have a rough understanding of 3D concepts due to school and OG help from Nobby on teaching me basic concepts back in the day. I'm learning something new every time I work on the mod

Asg16_4
06 Jan : 05:29
I'm a beta tester as well. In addition to beta testing I'm making my first car mod. An Acura Integra Type R with a JDM front end conversion (what I drive in irl haha)

fo0k
14 Dec : 23:29
Would love to hear some news on it. I saw that it had moved to turbo duck but couldn't really find info.. Its alive?
Any info would be interesting, Audrey thanks!

Audrey8
11 Dec : 18:31
Anybody on this site involved with the TDU2 World Beta? I will be testing so let me know if you guys have questions about features returning!

chance420
08 Jul : 06:26
Yooo it’s been a phat minute. Hope y’all are doin good. Saw that test drive is makin a comeback which is so dope. Cant wait to see what they come up with

Nobby76
06 Jul : 17:41
Cool


fo0k
06 Jul : 17:16
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Nobby76
Sun Jun 15 2014, 01:54AM

Joined: Mon Oct 24 2011, 01:06PM

 Nice pic, nice effect too.

Something i tried on the last contest was multiple layers of DOF.
In an example of your pic. what i would do is , where your wall is, id select everything from the top of the wall and infront of it, following the wall down the hill to the right, paste a copy of it to a new layer.
So you have a complete image on layer 1 and only the foreground stuff on layer 2.
Apply whatever DOF blur you want to the foreground stuff, then do the exact same effect ( same size and placement) on the background layer, but make it a little bit stronger.

What that will do is make a slight (but just noticeable) difference in the DOF between the wall and the trees behind it. Which makes a slightly more realistic distance effect.

On last months image i actually used 4 layers. The car, the first hill, the second hill and nearest trees, then everything else. I used the plugin called Bokeh (its built into PS now) I used exactly the same sized elliptical blur, but each layer i increased the blur strength by 1, its hard to spot but when you now its there you can see the subtle changes in Dof.. which is what you want, obvious effects make things look fake, unnoticed effects mean you did them right and they look part of the image.

In nearly every months contest image, i copy at least the car to a new layer, so i can apply different stuff to the car than to the background

But yeah, well done on the use of DOF, its a tricky one to get right sometimes, but yours came out ok.

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