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I know it's been a while since I posted on this thread, but I do have some relevant updates. First, thanks to the RE2003 project, I now know that the PTF file uses Cubic Hermite splines and not Bezier curves. Through experimentation with node weights (note that I don't actually have any code...

64-bit will NOT change the need to optimize models. In fact, it'll only make that need stronger.

Oh yeah, this is actually happening:

I started a similar project a long time ago, but it never went anywhere because I wanted to work on other projects. Anyways, it's good to see that someone has actually been able to pull this off. I deleted my Reddit account a long time ago and have no interest in creating a new one...

Well, I got MIPs and STPs that use DCL to load and display property in a Sandbox 2.0 build. Thanks for the help.

Interesting. At least the indices I needed for this mesh generator are correct. I will not be adding normal map support to my mesh generator. Nor will I be adding support for any other texture.

Here's what I know about NR2003's Appearance node: Diffuse (base texture) Unknown Shadow Map (light map, 3DS Max's "self illumination" map) Specular Map (shineness map) Reflection Map (environment map) Reflection Mask? Unknown It's very possible that normal maps are supported by the 3DO in the...

When you said that it uses channel 9, I assumed a zero-indexed list. I needed to put the shadow map coords into channel 8. By the way, I've got this now: Other than the wall texture segments not generating properly, it looks like everything is working the way it's supposed to. Oh, that and...

I plan on using this generator in my sandbox replacement program. The default settings will result in low-resolution track segments in general, with straight segments that have little to no gradient changes having only a single quad length-wise. Also, larger tracks are not necessarily more...

Anyone up for dynamic mesh resolution? I've added it as an option that can be toggled on. It's complete with an option to adjust the sensitivity to changes in elevation gradients. The default is to double the number of quads on the segment for each percent of gradient change. This is only...

I do not believe there is any specific naming convention for bumpmap names. It's just that, for some reason, the names aren't stored directly in the PTF file. At least, sandbox doesn't store them directly. However, it doesn't crash either if we edit the PTF files to store the names directly.

The Root Node ("TrackDescriptor"): 0x00000049 = Bumpmap Count 0x0000004D = Bumpmap Data Size (Bumpmap Count * 48) 0x00000051 = Start of Bumpmap Data For Each Bumpmap: 0x00 = Encrypted Bumpmap Name (default is "83 26 91 1F 60 83 B5 01 9F F1 56 A7 1F 14 4A 81", shown as "Track Default" in...

As I noted in another thread, PTF files don't store the bumpmap name directly. Instead, they encrypt it for some reason and store the encrypted form, which is always 16 bytes long. This seems to be a strange design choice on the part of Papyrus, as one can hardly call a bumpmap name "sensitive...

Oh thanks. 12 channels matches my notes as well. By the way, I've been testing the generator on the Tereana City Superspeedway. I set the quad size to 1 meter, LOD count to 8, max curved fence LOD index to 8. The generator was able to generate the mesh for the whole track in just ~145 ms...

I've finished tweaking the mesh generator for the walls. Curved fences on banked surfaces are NOT exactly what is shown in Sandbox, but it's close enough. If you get the camera close enough to clip through the geometry, you will notice an occasional pixel of skybox leaking through the seam...

And there we go! Curved catch fences. Now all I need to do is to check this against Sandbox to see if the meshes are identical. Sort of. The mesh generated here extrudes walls perpendicularly to the surface. NR2003 skews the angle a little bit. I've basically made two assumptions: The...

I don't know why this is, but I decided to test out my existing code on walls that change their height from one end of the segment to the other, and I got the correct results. Though I don't know why this is. Now to generate curved catch fences.

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I know it's not specifically an NR2003 site, but I do have a downloads page hosting a few NR2003 downloads, including the Sandbox installer, some of my NR2003 utilities, and two race tracks. https://gaming.tchapman500.com/downloads/nr2003

How would you be able to tell that?