JJagwire Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 (edited) This is my first mod ever, a very large and detailed map addition that I have been working on for months. The map is incomplete and there are a few problems, for example I can't figure out how to do LOD's and the terrain has no water reflection while the objects and trees do. It's only been tested on 1.04 on a high end computer which held 60 fps with Schakusa styled ENB v3.0 (Medium spec- no depth of field and no sweetfx) ENB - http://www.gta4-mods.com/misc/enb-series-schakusa-styled-v30-f19284 Cliffside Rally Download - http://www.gtainside.com/en/download.php?do=comments&cat=457&start=0&id=54239&orderBy= Edited October 18, 2013 by JJagwire SaL_Leone and TJGM 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaL_Leone Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Amazing!Great Job ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stilldre Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 (edited) Looks good. Did you created it from scratch? You could use some variety in vegetation though and place procedural materials Edited October 18, 2013 by stilldre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrythxd Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Damn.. This looks super sexy! Nice work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJagwire Posted October 18, 2013 Author Share Posted October 18, 2013 Looks good. Did you created it from scratch? You could use some variety in vegetation though and place procedural materials It started it out in cityscape as a square heightmap, so only the edges where created from scratch to make it into an island rather than floating square. Although practically every inch of the terrain had to be edited to get smooth texture blending... and the roads all had to be recreated in max as well. Thanks for the feedback! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
universetwisters Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Although I'm not a big fan of rally racing, it looks hella good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steel89ita Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 A really good map, I liked it! Well done, it doesn't have bad geometries or invisible walls, and the materials are well blended! It reminds me of the work I done with my Clockwork Mount map (that, shame, is on the same area of your map), anyway, I'm hoping to see more works from you! P.s: The terrain blending is good, did you paint the whole map without split the terrain in small parts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBHD Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Downloaded, tested, approved !!! Thanx for that dude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJagwire Posted October 31, 2013 Author Share Posted October 31, 2013 A really good map, I liked it! Well done, it doesn't have bad geometries or invisible walls, and the materials are well blended! It reminds me of the work I done with my Clockwork Mount map (that, shame, is on the same area of your map), anyway, I'm hoping to see more works from you! P.s: The terrain blending is good, did you paint the whole map without split the terrain in small parts? Thanks! Here's how I did the texture blending.. 4 layer blended terrain shader, grass, dirt, dirt 2, rock with alpha 1. Split terrain into 10,000 polygon or less sections, convert to editable polys. 2. In graphite modeling ribbon "selection" tab, select vertices by normal.. angle = 30 (?) degrees, Z axis, inverted. 3. Set brush settings to something huge like 2000/2000 size and strength and paint all the selected verts layers 3 and 4 at once. So I did 30 degrees for dirt 2 and rock, maybe 15 degrees for regular dirt, but I decided to do regular dirt by hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compeast Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Just tried this. LOVE IT! Will there be an updated version? =) -Some trees don't have Collision. -Some normal maps for the tunnel and bridges? -Some trees are floating -Maybe more houses and little towns? Thanks for this great mod though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJagwire Posted December 19, 2013 Author Share Posted December 19, 2013 Just tried this. LOVE IT! Will there be an updated version? =) -Some trees don't have Collision. -Some normal maps for the tunnel and bridges? -Some trees are floating -Maybe more houses and little towns? Thanks for this great mod though! Hey thanks for the feedback. Sadly I haven't made any progress because I'm already at the performance limit and still have no clue how to get working LOD's. Adding just one more factory building caused weird fps drops when I'm near it. And these are buildings that I optimized so they are very low poly. I think (hope) the problem is that the terrain just needs LOD's. Right now there are a total of 5 different 4-layer blended terrain shaders being rendered at max distance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IIZACHARIAHII Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 (edited) I haven't tested it yet, but it looks amazing you should try and add procedural materials to the map though _____________________________________________ Edited December 19, 2013 by IIZACHARIAHII Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJagwire Posted December 19, 2013 Author Share Posted December 19, 2013 I haven't tested it yet, but it looks amazing you should try and add procedural materials to the map though I actually started with procedurals but didn't like them. I just find short range stuff popping up around you annoying, which is also why I made these extremely low poly trees so that literally everything on the map is rendered at max distance. But I definitely recognize the lack of vegetation.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJagwire Posted December 20, 2013 Author Share Posted December 20, 2013 (edited) I may end up discontinuing this and moving onto a baja style map replacement that I have a very solid plan for.. heres a quick test I did but made it way too small Edited December 25, 2013 by JJagwire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IIZACHARIAHII Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 im guessing you use Cityscape 1.8 promo, on there you can create vegetation you can choose random plant size variation (10-20) some will be 10 some 14 some 19 ect..., and you can set random rotation. its hard work exporting them from 3ds max without collision, but if you can do it, they will have maximum view distance even if you set your detail and view distance to 0 you can see the plants for miles with no pop ups. It really makes a difference when it comes to adding detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJagwire Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 im guessing you use Cityscape 1.8 promo, on there you can create vegetation you can choose random plant size variation (10-20) some will be 10 some 14 some 19 ect..., and you can set random rotation. its hard work exporting them from 3ds max without collision, but if you can do it, they will have maximum view distance even if you set your detail and view distance to 0 you can see the plants for miles with no pop ups. It really makes a difference when it comes to adding detail. I used to use cityscape but doing everything including roads in 3ds max gives far better results. This map can just barely handle the trees on it right now and they are about 50 polygons each.. I had to remove about 25% of them due to performance issues..the cityscape trees and plants are 500-1000 polys each if i remember right... It's really easy to export things without collision btw, after exporting the models just delete everything that you don't want collisions for and then export collisions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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