Marmoset renders

Here's my car so far. Its pretty much done now I just need to do the windows. I will also be compiling the game files so i can add them to the main game.

Exterior texturing

For the exterior I baked the normal and ao maps then began straight away with texturing all the chrome pieces. I originally made the car paint red but my supervisor said it would be nice to have one with decals on too like a proper racing car so I gathered some reference for this. As for the decals I added some I saw on my reference and ones that I thought were applicable. The way I unwrapped my car allows me to have deals on both sides without them being inverted. Normally in a racing game decals would be added within the engine so they wouldn't have this issue. I learned this from making a car in and year and finding my decals were inverted so for the cars number I just used 00.

I added a Yokohoma decal as the tyres on my car are that make. The PMC.S decal was hard as my unwrap wasn't perfect so it would be stretched. So I had to recreate the decal and warp it for both sides of the car. The rest of the them were fine I just had a problem with that one. I also noticed one problem where the car has the letter S and I forgot to separate these so one one side of the car it is inverted. Its nothing major but it is quite annoying and for my next car I will make sure I don't have this issue again.

Other Guages + Texturing the interior

In rFactor you can have other gauges that work like the OIL, TEMP and FUEL etc. But I decided just to leave these and save some time so I can start the 2nd car asap. So I just added them to the interior UV's. This is the texture I made for the other gauges. I made the petty much from scratch accept using a template gauges so all he markings were correct.

As for the rest of the interior I baked the AO and normal maps in xNormal as I always do. Then I began texturing in photoshop. I was originally going to sculpt the foam parts on he roll cage for some extra detail but after looking at reference this was unnecessary. Most of the foam in my reference seemed to be attached with cable ties so I added this detail with nDo2. I also decided to add some welds the the rollcage. I did this by creating some overlapping gradient circles that when converted to a normal look like a weld. For the rest of the interior I mainly left it black as the player wont be looking at the back seats or floor so adding detail there is meaningless. 

Here Is what it looked like in the end.

rFactor 2 GIF

I said I post a pic of the dashboard and gauges in game but I decided to make a gif instead so you can actually see them working. You'll notice the shift light turn on also! I currently texturing the outside of the car and ill do a update on that soon.

Dashboard Texturing

I need to spend more time on the interior than the outside as in game that's where the player will spend most their time. So it's nice to get the interior looking as good as possible. As usual I baked the normal and AO maps in xnormal and used ndo2 for some extra normal detail. Here are the diffuse, normal and specular maps I made.

I decided to put a sticker on the glovebox as stickers in Japan are used loads on vehicles. And JDM Legends is a garage that specialize in classic Japanese cars. JDM stands for Japanese Domestic Market. 

Speedo and RPM Light

The tachometer has a little RPM shift light on it that will illuminate when the revs reach a certain rpm. Mos tracing cars have these. There are several LED's that a car can have in rfactor for various different things but I'm just going to use the shift light. It took a little searching on the ISI forum again to find the right bit of code. Here's the code I used.

RPMLED=LEDYEL00.dds

I needed two textures, one lit and one unlit which I made here..

For the speedo it was a pretty similar process as the tachometer. I just needed to have a different texture and different code. Here's the code and texture I used. It took me a while to get the speedo accurate but by just fiddling around with the values in the code I eventually got it. I think I could of made this easier of I knew what angle each speed. 

SpeedometerRange=(20.0, 220.0, 210.0, 350.0) * *//SpeedometerRange=(<minvalue>, <maxvalue>, <beginangle>, <endangle>)

SpeedometerCenter=(0.50, 0.50) 

SpeedometerNeedle=(1.8, 1.8)

SpeedometerBackground=hakosuka_speedo.tga

SpeedometerNeedleMAP=hakosuka_speedo_SNEEDLE.tga

Mirrors and Tachometer

Firstly for the mirrors they have to be exported separately. So i separated the two side mirrors and the rear-view mirror. But just the geometry that I want to be a mirror, not the mirror outer bits. I attached these so they were all the same object and unwrapped them. This bit is important because it specifies which mirror is which. Here's what that looked like.

Then one line of code needed to be added to the .gen file. So adding the mirrors was pretty easy, I just had a problem where the view in the mirror was squished so i just adjusted the unwrap and that fixed that.

Now for the Tachometer. For my car I've added an aftermarket tacho which is made by autometer. So I just needed to seperate the tacho's face just like the mirrors and unwrap it. But this time I actually needed to texture it which is what I did here.

The rmp gauge has two textures, one for the backface and one for the rpm needle. The needle was already provided. Once I had exported the tacho I just needed to add some code. So this is what I added to the cockpitinfo.ini file.

TachometerRange=(100, 10000, 323, 420)
TachometerBackground=rter_rpm.tga
TachometerNeedle=(1.5,1.5)
TachometerNeedlemap=rter_SNEEDLE.tga
RelativeTachometer=0

It worked ingame straight away and it seemed to be displaying the correct RPM.
I'll post a pic of it in game at a later date.