Trackmakers Challenges

[Zeino]

Hello, welcome to my brand new monthly event!

The idea behind this is to make more people interested in trackmaking and to make it more fun. To participate you'll have to make a track according to the rules of the challenge. Anyone can participate. Every month a new challenge will be posted and it will be up to you to try it out! At the end of the month i'll set up a vote and the creator with the most votes will win. At the end of the year the creator with most points wins. I don't have a prize yet.

Round 1

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Trackmakers Challenge 1 - The begging
For the first month I thought about something simple in concept; you have to make a track (unexpected i know), but using only one texture page! If thats not enough, it has to be 256x in size.
The deadline is December 1st, 12:00 UTC!
To participate either send a link* to your creation in the forum post below or directly to me on discord [Tryxn (Zeino)#7121]. /*any form of download works

Participants:

• Luck Nos -> RexVoltum
• Jan Ainnir Mayen -> Origin of Symmetry
• Wrew -> Phantom Road
• Zeino -> Wabe Ring
• Hajducsekb -> Any Colour You Like

And the winners are Luck Nos & Wrew! Congratulations!

Round 2

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Trackmakers Challenge 2 - Winter Wonder
For the second month, we will make use of a feature thats not been used as much as you'd think. To participate, simply make a winter themed sprint track. No more, no less. If you need any help with making it work, be sure to ask.
The deadline is January 1st, 12:00 UTC!
To participate either send a link* to your creation in the forum post below or directly to me on discord [Tryxn (Zeino)#7121]. /*any form of download works

Participants:

• Luck Nos -> Rally Montagnolo

And the winner is Luck Nos! Congratulations!

Round 3

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Trackmakers Challenge 3 - Error 404, Texture not Found!
Third month is here! This time we will try to do something that has been only done once to my knowledge! To participate, simply make a track without textures. That means you'll have to use vertex paint! If you need any help with making it work, be sure to ask.
The deadline is February 1st, 12:00 UTC!
To participate either send a link* to your creation in the forum post below or directly to me on discord [Tryxn (Zeino)#7121]. /*any form of download works

Participants:

Points Table

1. Luck Nos - 6
2. Wrew - 3
3. Jan Ainnir Mayen - 2
4. Zeino - 2
5. Hajducsekb - 1

(3 for 1st place, 2 for 2nd, 1 for 3rd)

If you have any other questions, ask below!
Happy creating!

Helpful links: Track Editor, Blender Addon and its Documentation.

[Manmountain]

You may be hard pushed to create a single texture track with track editor alone without utilising some of the older track editing tools which can be found here : https://revolt_f1.webs.com/rvtoolshed.htm

[Zeino]

Hey, I am delaying the deadline by 5 days incase you are running short on time and don't think you can make it.
Therefore send me the link/files until December 6th, 12:00 UTC!
In other news; the new Trackmakers Challenge is going to be announced tommorow, so stay tuned!
Also, thx Manmountain for the useful link!

[Luck Nos]

Hey Zeino, I sent you the track on discord. Whenever you want!

[Wrew]

I'd also like to join, my entry is Phantom Road.

Use the shader renderer, as it glitches around when using legacy renderer.

[Zeino]

Hey guys, i'm sorry for the inactivity. I'll post the new round in the upcoming minutes so stay tuned! Meanwhile, I've added all of the participants to the participants list. Tommorow I will set up the poll and record some 1-lap videos from your tracks!

Also, here's my entry for round 1!

[Zeino]

Round 2 is up!

[Zeino]

Added the poll! You can now vote for the best track or tracks!
I will upload the videos of the tracks soon, I don't have time at the moment, sorry about this.

[607]

What a great result from the first round!
Hopefully you'll get some interest in future rounds too.

[Luck Nos]

And this track is also done! Good work to those who still have to finish!

[Zeino]

Hey! Sorry for the delay.. Anyway, the new monthly challenge is up!!

[Zeino]

Hi! I know doing a track without textures might sound hard, but don't worry im here to help you!
In this short tutorial we're going to learn the wonders of vertex shading!
Here's a simple step by step guide on how you should make a track without textures:

1. Make the track model. I reccommend checking out the basic blender tutorial on re-volt.io, if you don't know how do make models or use the addon.
   Here's my quick model:
   
2. Think about how you want to shade the map. You might have to split the mesh into more pieces to achieve the desired effect.
3. Basics. Ok anyway, to do vertex shading, select your model and go to edit mode. In the left side pannel select Re-Volt. You will see Vertex Shading (see image below)
   
   Select your whole model or just a part of it and then press Create vertex layer. You will see a rgb color picker show up. Now, to see what you're doing you have to be in texture mode so do that.
   
4. Painting. There's few ways to do this. You can use either vertex select, edge select or face select to make up different effects. You can find them here:
   
   Vertex select lets you do some shading in between the colors, see image below. I use this when i want to have a smooth translation between two parts of the mesh or to do said shading.
   
   Edge select works around the edges and also does the shading effect. I don't use this myself.
   
   Face select lets you work around your model like a fill tool. Select a face, and it'll fill the whole face with that color. See image below.
   
5. And last but not least, testing how it works in game!Here's my model in blender and ingame after doing this.
   
   

I hope it was helpful!

[Luck Nos]

Oh, great. I'm sure it will help me a lot. Thank you very much Zeino!!!