Hello, I am Josh Glasner(GnS*Kamikaze). There are two tracks that I would really love to have as DTR2 tracks. They are both real tracks that are located in Columbus,Ms. They are Columbus Speedway and Magnolia Motor Speedway. The WoO's visited Columbus Speedway this year. Bloomquist has had victories at both tracks. It would just be really cool to have these tracks on DTR2. If you could help me in any way I would appreciate it very much. Links to track pics: www.picturetrail.com/bama2 and www.magnoliamotorspeedway.net.Â
It looks pretty good, would like the surroundings to look a little more realistic(infield and stands, skyboxes) does not have as much banking I don't think. seems to be fairly racy. Overall it is pretty good, alot better than I could ever imagine doin. I just really like the track and would like it to be as real as possible.
Yeah Kamikaze, I downloaded it yesterday and looked at some pics. No offense but yes, it could use some work but at least someone made it. Heres what I want to do: Edit their track and make clay look better and hopefully add a few of those skyboxes that go around the track because I seen pics and it didn't look too much like it so I'll try something, but I'm pretty far back on editing and Matt is mostly nascar right now hopefully he'll still be making tracks but I could throw something together and improve it and make it look more realistic.
Cool, those sky boxes are probably the hardest things to do because of all the alpha work. But it shouldn't be a lot of trouble getting the walls lowered in the turns like I believe they are in real life and a few other changes, and I believe the clay should be redder? Mostly it probably just needs scenery work
I found a few of a track tour. I believe from midsouthracing.com? Looks good. THeir are no walls in the turns are they? I've got started a little bit so far so we'll see how it goes and if I make a lot of progress I'll def. give you pics. Cya
It has walls all the way around now. It used to not have a wall in 3 & 4 but it dos now. Here are some new pics of the track: http://flasher.smugmug.com/gallery/2572759#135539163 and some old pics(better track photos):http://www.midsouthracing.com/coltour.html
THanks bud...what's funny is that the first thing I did was take down the walls, lmao...anyway I"ll check out those other pics some more and work on it from there. THanks.
LOL, NP man...It's an easy fix. However, i was actually happy because it was the first time I had ever gotten a wall lowered without messing the entire turn up, lmao. Yeah I bet JW will love it too, you guys should try to meet up at the races sometime
Hey Kamikaze, Just updating you on the progress. I decided to paint the billboards to look like the actual buildings at the track...they will and do look good, just not 3d :\. Which the only way I could make them 3d is by alpha, which I don't have the resources to do, but matt does, too bad he's not around lol...anyway, the track will still look much more realistic than the other and I am hoping for it to be very accurate and it looks like it could be my best track to date depending on how much I can get it to look like Columbus and not like Husets (The track I'm making it from). I downloaded a few tracks today at college that are made from Husets and I realize that racers want to race at tracks that look like the track they expected it to look like and not like the default track with a different color of dirt lol...so I'm gonna do the best I can on it. I do, however, have a question...on the original Columbus dtr2 track, there is a scoreboard and everything right in middle of the back stretch. I wasn't able to find this in any of the pics I found and so I'm wondering if there really is one. If not, I'll take it down and not worry about it. I hope to get some pics up for you here soon, maybe tommorow so you can tell me how bad it is so far lol. Cya
Hey bud... I'll get you a pic soon...but something I really am hoping to do is download flash's alp thingy at college today and see if I can't make buildings...they way they'd look better, but what I got now I suppose is still better than nothing lol.
Hey...here are pics of the progress I have made up to last night. It's probably not nearly as good as you had expected, but it is also still a work in progress. Here are some stuff I plan to change though.
I plan to make the dirt more realistic (Let me know how far I need to go from where it is so far in the pics
I plan to make the grandstands more realistic
Let me know where the haulers park and I'll try to do that too
I'll move scoreboard to the outside of turn 4
I'm changing almost all billboards to sky boxes and putting them where they should be
Let me know what needs changed in the infield as well.
Man it is lookin good. The pits surround all of the track except the front stretch and that is where the haulers park.you can put haulers any where in that area if thats possible, There are not any stands in turn 3 did not know if you noticed it or not. if not don't worry about it, here are a couple of shots of the infield. http://flasher.smugmug.com/gallery/2572759#135532225
Man I really appreciate it. Lookin better and better.
Thanks Kamikaze...what do you mean by pits? lol I'm not sure if your talking about infield pits or the outside (I know this is a dumb question but I'm dumb lol). I guess what your saying is that the haulers park behind the front stretch? BTW, I didn't put any stands on turn 3, those are cars off in the distance if that's what your talking about . But I do see the infield on the pics and it is empty and so I'm not sure what your wanting me to do unless you are trying to just get me to change the color which I have done since this picture... Also, how far off is the clay so far because I'd like to get it pretty close too. Cya
Lol, the haulers park anywhere from behind turn 4 all the way from behind turn 2. My bad about accusing you of putting bleachers behing 3 lol. all the infield has in it is a maroonish red portable metal carport, a red and yellow water truck, white wrecker, and a yellow road grader. The dirt looks close, might need a little darker brown in it dont know, but here is a decent pic, you can do whatever you think it needs. I really appreciate you doing this, thanks.
lol thanks... I knew you were talking an awful lot about the infield so I kept wondering what you wanted it to look like so I put red clay on it. As for as the red building, I don't know if I can do that but of course I'll try...and I'll try to maybe get those other vehicles in ther but they must come with the husets before I can include them but I'll try. I'll also make the dirt darker andl et you look at it in a day or too... So how bad are the skyboxes, lol? Because they look worse when your racing (2d) but I will try to get them to look more realistic. Cya
Skyboxes look good to me, everthing is lookin good to me for that matter. the other guys infeild was nothing like the real infield, yours looks fine to me, the only thing you could do is add them things, but if youcant thats cool. Cant wait to race on it
lol, believe it or not, I hadn't changed the infield yet when I put these pictures out...it was the same one as the other guys. I guess maybe the clay made it look better or something, but since this pic I did make the infield better "looking" but haven't added the objects you were talking about, and may not be able to but I'll try. I hope it really does look good and please let me know if there is ANYTHING that needs to be changed and stuff.
Hey bud...I also changed the clay a little last night and made it look more realistic and grainy and brownish red so when I put pics up again I'll need to know how it should look. Thanks
hey Kamikaze... I'm going to try to put some pics up by Monday. But if you want to try out the track as it is at the moment (You really can't race on it because theres a billboard stretched across the track in turn one lmao..) But just look at the track and see how it is so far at www.freespaces.com/vlrdtr2/tracks2.html
If you can't get the link to work let me know, these are tracks that are not finished yet (except for maybe one) and are just for testing pretty much and seeing how they look, so you can download them all and let me know what you think. Cya later bud
Hey man, looks good so far, There is not a fence on top of the wall in 3 and 4 but it is everywhere else, could you also put this in red in turns 34 on the wall, "The Baddest Bullring in the South". Its Gonna look real good when you finish changing the other things you said you were going to change. Oh yeah, and get that billboard off the track. LMAO
lol yeah sorry. It will be off.... Guess what!!! I'm figuring out a little alpha which means I'll get that fence down and maybe a bunch more stuff going on depending on how much I learn lol. cya
Yeah But I will have to take them down lol. Those started out as actual buildings and there were only three and if I paint one it will paint the others cause they all come from the same texture paint...But I am doing alpha which means they will PROBABLY be 1D but you can see through them like at the bottom where the wood is, it won't be just black but you could see through the places where there is no wood. ok that was confusing
Right now I'm having trouble painting the alpha in PSP because it keeps showing up the wrong color, I'm going to try to fix it though. I already lowered the billboards taht I was using as skyboxes and am now trying to replace them with Alpha objects. Since I know how to get alpha to work a little now this track will be better if I can figure it out more. Alpha stuff is like Trees, Cars, people, etc...so I can put trees in the right places and stuff hopefully. Cya Oh and on 47 and 100 percent wet at the track (Those are the only two terrains I paitned) how do they look? Like the real dirt or anything? cya
Ok Kamikaze. Wow this is working good. I got the alpha images and everythings showing up the right color. I got the skyboxes in the exact order they are in in real life. you can see through the parts that your supposed to see through. They look real...since all this went so good, I've decided to see if I can't go ahead and make them 3d! Alpha is the only way to add objects to a track since Ratbag locked the de2 file to keep you from adding stuff to it I guess, but I'm learning alpha and I can do a lot of stuff with it so now here I go trying to do 3d. I'll keep you updated.
Hey here are the latest pics. These are a closeup of the skyboxes/new clay. I've been working on the skyboxes since yesterday morning and got them 3d this morning for the most part. Not all are done but I'm getting there. Let me know what you think. and if they look realistic.
Hey Kamikaze...hope you can make it man. Good to hear from you again I figured you mighta been going to gayfactor or something and forgot about this track lol..well i'm gonna put more pics up today in a minute since I got DSL NOW WHOOOOOOOHOOO. I will be honest, I have not worked on it a whole bunch lately because I been busy racing...not warping lol
Hey Kamikaze...hope you can make it man. Good to hear from you again I figured you mighta been going to gayfactor or something and forgot about this track lol..well i'm gonna put more pics up today in a minute since I got DSL NOW WHOOOOOOOHOOO. I will be honest, I have not worked on it a whole bunch lately because I been busy racing...not warping lol
Man i do not blame you a bit, if i had dsl at my house i would race constantly lol. I leave my computer at my dads house because he has dsl just so i can race.
lol man...we been practicing columbus forever today. I let peopl.e test it give m your yahoo you can to. I'll put up pics from our racing...everyone LOVED it
