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(New page: ==Directions for creating tracks== {{note|These instructions are meant for Linux}} * Model the scene. See the track modeling tutorial * If you use a 3d editor other than blender, * ...)
 
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{{note|These instructions are meant for Linux}}
 
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* Model the scene.  See the [[track modeling tutorial]]
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* Model the scene.  See the [[track modeling tutorial]] for help with this step.
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* If you use a 3d editor other than blender,
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* If you use a 3d editor other than blender, import the track into blender.
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* Unzip and put racer files in temporary folder RACER_TP (temporary track path). Make sure the path has no spaces (dof2joe doesn't like spaces).
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* Use the export-all-joe-0.3.py blender export script to export all objects.  This script can be found in the VDrift art repository under the tools folder. The export script creates a number of .joe files and a list.txt file.  The list.txt file may be named somename-list.txt, in which case you should rename it to list.txt
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* Create new folder for track in track editor folder TRACKEDITOR_TP.
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* Create new folder for track in track editor folder TRACKEDITOR_TP (if your track is called parkinglot, the path could be /home/joe/VDrift-trackeditor/data/tracks/parkinglot).
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* Convert all texture names to lowercase in TRACKEDITOR_TP via
 
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find . -type f -name \*.tga|sort -r|awk '{f=tolower($1);
 
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if(f!=$1 && p[f]!=1){print "mv "$1" "f}p[$1]=1}' | /bin/sh
 
 
* Make folder TRACKEDITOR_TP/objects/
 
* Make folder TRACKEDITOR_TP/objects/
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* Run the following command:
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* Copy all of the .joe files and the list.txt file to TRACKEDITOR_TP/objects/
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dof2joe/dof2joe -p TRACKEDITOR_TP/objects/ RACER_TP/*.dof
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* Open track editor data/tracks/editor.config and set active track to TRACKEDITOR_TP.
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If there are thousands of .dof files, you may have to do this in steps to avoid a "too many arguments" error from your shell. This will take a while. Textures are automatically converted using nconvert. No filenames should have spaces.
 
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* Open track editor /data/tracks/editor.config and set active track to TRACKEDITOR_TP.
 
 
* Run the track editor. Trace the roadways and mark the starting position (press H for help).
 
* Run the track editor. Trace the roadways and mark the starting position (press H for help).
 
* CD to the TRACKEDITOR_TP/objects folder (this is important, the packfile stores relative paths) and run
 
* CD to the TRACKEDITOR_TP/objects folder (this is important, the packfile stores relative paths) and run
 
  joepack/joepack -c objects.jpk *.joe
 
  joepack/joepack -c objects.jpk *.joe
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* Copy TRACKEDITOR_TP into the main VDrift tracks folder VDRIFT_TP. Erase VDRIFT_TP/objects/*.joe (since they are in the pack file).
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* Copy TRACKEDITOR_TP into the main VDrift tracks folder VDRIFT_TP (for example /home/joe/VDrift/data/tracks/parkinglot). Erase VDRIFT_TP/objects/*.joe (since they are in the pack file).
 
* Add your VDRIFT_TP to VDrift/data/tracks/track_list.txt
 
* Add your VDRIFT_TP to VDrift/data/tracks/track_list.txt
 
* Add VDRIFT_TP/about.txt and ensure that the first line is the name of the track.
 
* Add VDRIFT_TP/about.txt and ensure that the first line is the name of the track.
 
* Run VDrift and check out what the track looks like in-game. Note that you will only be able to drive on the roadways you defined in the track editor since no other surfaces have been flagged as collideable. Also take a screenshot for the track selection screen.
 
* Run VDrift and check out what the track looks like in-game. Note that you will only be able to drive on the roadways you defined in the track editor since no other surfaces have been flagged as collideable. Also take a screenshot for the track selection screen.
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* Add the track selection screenshot to VDrift/gui/tracks/VDRIFT_TP.png (hopefully these png files will be moved into the folders of the individual tracks soon).
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* Add the track selection screenshot to VDRIFT_TP/trackshot.png
 
* Open up all of the texture files in TRACKEDITOR_TP/objects and review which textures belong to objects that should be collide-able (roads and walls), have full brightness (trees), be mipmapped (fences and fine transparent objects should not be mipmapped), or be skyboxes.
 
* Open up all of the texture files in TRACKEDITOR_TP/objects and review which textures belong to objects that should be collide-able (roads and walls), have full brightness (trees), be mipmapped (fences and fine transparent objects should not be mipmapped), or be skyboxes.
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* Any textures that have transparent areas are usually colored #FF00FF in the Racer textures. You'll need to make these truly transparent in the PNG files. An easy way to do this is to use ImageMagick. Use the command
 
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mogrify -transparent rgb\(255,0,255\) file.png
 
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This can be scripted to speed things up of course.
 
 
* Set the correct object properties using the VDrift-tracked/listedit tool (more documentation to come).
 
* Set the correct object properties using the VDrift-tracked/listedit tool (more documentation to come).
 
* Done!
 
* Done!

Revision as of 22:59, 29 May 2007

Directions for creating tracks

Note: These instructions are meant for Linux
  • Model the scene. See the track modeling tutorial for help with this step.
  • If you use a 3d editor other than blender, import the track into blender.
  • Use the export-all-joe-0.3.py blender export script to export all objects. This script can be found in the VDrift art repository under the tools folder. The export script creates a number of .joe files and a list.txt file. The list.txt file may be named somename-list.txt, in which case you should rename it to list.txt
  • Create new folder for track in track editor folder TRACKEDITOR_TP (if your track is called parkinglot, the path could be /home/joe/VDrift-trackeditor/data/tracks/parkinglot).
  • Make folder TRACKEDITOR_TP/objects/
  • Copy all of the .joe files and the list.txt file to TRACKEDITOR_TP/objects/
  • Open track editor data/tracks/editor.config and set active track to TRACKEDITOR_TP.
  • Run the track editor. Trace the roadways and mark the starting position (press H for help).
  • CD to the TRACKEDITOR_TP/objects folder (this is important, the packfile stores relative paths) and run
joepack/joepack -c objects.jpk *.joe
  • Copy TRACKEDITOR_TP into the main VDrift tracks folder VDRIFT_TP (for example /home/joe/VDrift/data/tracks/parkinglot). Erase VDRIFT_TP/objects/*.joe (since they are in the pack file).
  • Add your VDRIFT_TP to VDrift/data/tracks/track_list.txt
  • Add VDRIFT_TP/about.txt and ensure that the first line is the name of the track.
  • Run VDrift and check out what the track looks like in-game. Note that you will only be able to drive on the roadways you defined in the track editor since no other surfaces have been flagged as collideable. Also take a screenshot for the track selection screen.
  • Add the track selection screenshot to VDRIFT_TP/trackshot.png
  • Open up all of the texture files in TRACKEDITOR_TP/objects and review which textures belong to objects that should be collide-able (roads and walls), have full brightness (trees), be mipmapped (fences and fine transparent objects should not be mipmapped), or be skyboxes.
  • Set the correct object properties using the VDrift-tracked/listedit tool (more documentation to come).
  • Done!
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