I was thinking of using the trees_blocker mostly on sides of the forest where you can't see any other roads. I especially won't use it when two roads are super close, just to give the illusion of some roads being close and some roads being too far to see from the treeline.
Update on the game of 1/25/2019, including my FPS on this map W/ Rally Covet. (Specs In Description) (FPS might be a bit lower then without recording OBS is slightly laggy.
It really has that gloomy vibe I was hoping for, I absolutely love it My only suggestion is to make the track blend in with the ground if you weren’t already going to do that anyway
I'll be doing that later on, as I have no idea how to do that. Might go ahead and try changing the transparency on the edges in Paint.net or something. Yeah, I have no idea how to. Either someone able to can try, or I can attempt using a different decal for it.
That looks proper forest, imo! To make track blend, you can use same texture as road that you paint at edge of road, so that terrain is then where blending occurs, as you need to paint gravel under the path for it to have gravel properties. So make path slightly narrower than road you want and use terrain painter to paint the road, also it might be possible to use transparent edges of path texture or completely invisible path if painting with gravel to terrain only. I think there was gravel texture in vanilla content that had transparent edges which did blend quite well.
I'll go ahead and try that. I bet that would work, with changing the smoothness. And I only used this decal because I really didn't feel like trying to find out what fixes the pathing for the textures (They broke once I ported them from ECUSA) Also, update on the start ditch. For some reason, my mud-like sand started acting like metal, sparks and no depth. I might try again at it later on, as the start wasn't the best of corners anyway... EDIT... So, when I tried using the decalroads in the terrain painter tool, this is what I get. (And other stuff, but no attempts blended the edges.
This looks beautiful! Since I live in Finland, I have to say that there is a similarity to the twisty Finnish forest roads that are commonly used as rally stages. This will probably be one of my favourite maps to drive on when it's released. The last thing I want is to do is rush the work, I personally don't care how long it takes, aslong as it just doesn't die like a lot of threads.
Changed and added a shade of brown to the decalroad. How does this look? I think it looks better atleast.
Added a bit more to the map over the last day and this morning. Here's the update video. Also cut down on a few trees, using blockers. Made sure the map actually works when in the mod folder (Pretty sure it does atleast. The one I'm recording on is in the mods folder)
There is wonderful still picture and lots of sound, but no moving picture. I don't know if this is any value to you: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-10/documents/2003_07_24_nps_gravelroads_sec1_1.pdf
I'm going to post a hopefully working video in a bit. I used fullscreen in that and I'm guessing OBS doesn't like that. I made a few small adjustments, so that'll be there too. Cool thread. I might look into that more later on or with a second attempt at a rally map. I was more looking for tighter corners. This might as well be called an experiment anyway lol.
They all are experiments and quite often they result something fun Here is official data of ditch sizing: Distance between ditches 8 meters = ditch depth 0.6m Distance between ditches 11-12 meters = ditch depth 0.9m Each meter between those adds 0.1m to ditch depth. Usually angle of ditch 'walls' is 30-45 degrees. Well, that all probably vary by area, but that is for area that receives good amount of snow and ground is quite moist, lot of swamps and gravel between the swamps. Those are sizes of typical rally roads, also reason why cars get air time when hitting ditch, which is kinda soft, but also angles are such that it grabs car. Often ditches are covered by grass, so it is nasty surprise, sometimes large rocks which total car quite well etc. Well, for future needs there is quite a lot for making rally maps like Jalkku's rally map for example it seems
Haven't worked on the map until tonight, due to life and more life. Really glad GroundModels are now fixed, so I could get a result like this. I might use this more often/on another long corner because I can start fresh there.
That looks proper rallying! That map looks to become scariest in whole game, like real rallying, requires balls to drive fast, when you know that one small mistake can total the car.
I'll just post these on Streamable from now on... What do you guys think so far? Not the best of crashes on the mud section, but the screenshot above is tons better. At the end, I was thinking of a Waterfall underpass. To my knowledge, this hasn't been done before. I was just curious if it's possible and wanted to try it. I was going to add the top layer of water (Just another route of water same width) but I'm curious how/if this could look any better...
