buildings in BTB

[wil345]

Hi,

I'm new to the world of modding and would like to now how I can put buildings by my BTB track?

[Pizzaman]

Same as any other object. use the 'objects' button.

I think you mean 'how to make them YOURSELF and use them with BTB'.
You have to make a 'mesh' (wire), put the 'material' (yexture, paint) on it,
and then use X-packer to put them in BTB, after that you can use them.
The 'X-packer.exe' comes free with BTB.

To make the mesh, you can use Google Sketchup.
Then export it, load it in X-packer ---> BTB ---> get it on your new track.

Sounds simple, but it is not. If you use a lot of mesh (poly) and big textures,
they will look nice but it makes the game run slower (each 'face' has to be rendered, put on screen)
We're here to help out though, and it's all 'do-able'. Just go for it!

[wil345]

Ok I'll try it
I'll let you know if it works out

thanks

[Pizzaman]

The most problems I get is with the textures.
When exporting from Sketchup they sometimes do not 'stick on the surface'.
Also, sometimes it exports more textures than the object uses.

I remove all the crap with 3DsimEd.
Now I also have started to UV-map the objects, so they use only one texture.
But that is a different story.

BTW usually I import the objects in X packer as 3DS, becasue I have trouble with the DAE format.
Might work better for you though.

[wil345]

hey thanks for the tip
I'm just about to see if I can get it in BTB

BTW are you a min freak as in the old beutiful cars

[Pizzaman]

Yep, I have three Minis at the moment. And MINI: I mean '100% free of any BMW parts'.
I saw a few images of the 'Bini' in the Dakar, looks like an SUV... LOL!

I have a few pics in the gallery of my cars (first pages).
I've got a load of them (wie wat bewaart die heeft wat).

[wil345]

is'nt there a nother way of converting the object that does not in volve me paying 20 pound?

[wil345]

jonge dat klinkt als muziek aan mijn oren
ik ben zelf een mini, kever en bmw isetta fan
kleine oude barrels!!!

[Pizzaman]

Hahaha ik heb een Fiat 500, 3 Minis, een Ford Capri, een Fiat X1/9, een Citroen Visa en een Range Rover.

[wil345]

Bastard!!!
wat een verzameling vent
echt vet

[Pizzaman]

Yeah - lucky me. Just never kick the old cars out.

BTW Google is your best friend in getting the programs.
I got 3DSmax for 35 euro secondhand: Marktplaats...

[romanocwb]

Hello!
Almost finished my track (after 5 months). But I'm having trouble to include a house built in 3DSMax. I can mount the Xpack, but nothing appears when I put the object on the track. It is an object invisible (no errors).
Have rolled the internet looking for tips, but could not solve the problem.

The house is complex. Is there a specific procedure to mount the xpack?
Someone would make the xpack for me? (sorry for this, but I'm out of options)

Images of the House (design by abpetri):

[abpetri]

yes. that's it.

I'm friends with romano and he's done a terrific job buliding up and recreating a private race track (it acctually exists, here in brazil, and we're used to do some track days there, pretty awesome).

There is a house there, that works as the race track's "pits" in and out of the track.

I've modeled the hole house in rhino and exported in mesh to 3DMax. I've cleaned up the model and left all the materials organized with each texture. These are independent renders made in another tool, but it should look like this in the games (gtr evo, rfactor etc).

We're having much trouble making the Xpack, so would be GREAT if anyone could spare some time to help us! When the final version of the track is finished, we should be able to share with you guys, i'm pretty sure you'll like the track design, it's pretty tight and tricky, with a lot of weight transfer spots.

this is a video made in the track, in a stock ford focus 2.0 (stock engine, stock tires, stock everything, justo for fun testing)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6dswtIQVzw


appreciate the help fellas!

[yetisaj]

Looks like a great little circuit. Love a bit of Sublime too haha.

When I first started track building all my buildings in my tracks were created externally and ported into BTB. I had some that often disappeared and i realised it was a unit scaling issue. Built in millimetres and imported in metres makes for a very large building that cant be seen in BTB.

When you create the Xpack and import the .3ds file try rescaling it to 0.001 on x,y & z and see what happens.

Really what you want to do is export the track using BTB and use 3dsimed or 3dsmax to position buildings then export the GMTs from there. For this track either way of exporting it (BTB or 3dsmax) doesn't really matter but when you start building large tracks BTB will have memory issues.

[yetisaj]

I'd also look at reducing the polycount on those fuel tanks. They look very high.

[Pizzaman]

If you're having much trouble I could try to get it into an X-pack for you.
I do have 3DSmax8, sometimes it gives crap between different builds though.
Even a Max8 version a few months younger: he could load mine, but I couldn't load his scenes!

What Yetisay says happened to me too. Got a firetruck the size of Mount Everest.
But if you know the dimensions of the building, rescaling should be easy: it is all in metric meters.
And yes BTB has memory issues. I couldn't stick in 1200 movable tyres, dammit!

[abpetri]

Thank's for the tips guys!

Hey Pizzaman, would be GREAT if you could help us with that.
Do you have Skype or an email adress, so i can send you a .zip containing the files?
I could send you the full 3dmax file (with the hole house, with the materials already grouped) along with the textures i tried using.
Acctually the only important textures would be the more specific ones such as the rock walls, the rock floor and the roof. the rest would be free to choose as fit.

I'll even try to export some parts with less polys (as suggested by yetisaj), so the model gets lighter.

Apreciate the help you guys are providing, since we couldn't get any custom support from BTB itself.

[Pizzaman]

I'll send you a PM with my email.

I dunno if the 3DSmax file would be any good.
Sometimes the versions conflict even if you also have 3DSmax8.
Don't worry about textures, I'll just UV map it so you can paint it any color you like.

I'll need an OBJ file, or 3DS, or something that I can import into 3DSmax.
Rest is easy, done it a zillion times.

[abpetri]

just answered you pm.

sending you the email! thanks a lot mate!!!

[KieferDJW]

Hi abpetri,

if you still need some help with the xpack I could take a look over it.
A house for the pit's is a great idea who might be used for some other tracks...
cheers

[cesniper]

have you make sure the textures are the right size for BTB? I mean 512x512 or basically power of 2

[Pizzaman]

I'm stillstrufggling with it, this thing is complicated.
It is as difficult as half a car.