Frederick Alonso on the forums has a Patreon where he's made some posts outlining his process. The only downside with Blender is nobody has a really concrete, easy to follow, step by step tutorial for going from a blank Blender file to a finished product, even if it's super simple. Seems to be a rigging thing that I haven't seen anyone post a working example / walkthrough of

Exporting animated objects like corner workers.

Really not a deal breaker, but if you're hoping to make a fully-featured track for night racing this becomes more of a priority.) This is really only applicable to actually getting things like lamp posts to emit light in the game.

Omni lighting (Seems to be dependent on the 3Ds Max omni light object, I'm sure an equivalent workflow exists in Blender but I have yet to see anyone who's figured it out.

Billboarding trees / spectators (Not sure if the guy making the export scripts is including functionality in his next release for enabling the flags that are required).

The necessary scripts for Blender can be found here: įrom what I can gather, you use Blender for every component necessary in getting a track made except for: I really recommend Blender as it's free, and in my opinion is exponentially better and easier to use than 3Ds Max. With rFactor 2 though, especially more recently with the changes to the materials with PBR etc, BTB / RTB were no longer 'every step necessary can be done here' tools, and it seemed like 3Ds Max was a hard stop requirement which being a broke college kid was a no go.īut, it seems like recently some people have done the leg work to figure out how to do most everything in Blender, and after some trial and error and jumping around not so great documentation in my opinion (The info is there, but not very concise), I think I've managed to figure most of it out. v1.03: dx11 rfactor2 version, it includes missing reflections, all textures and lighting reworked, shadows reworked.I did a bunch of track building with BTB for rFactor 1 over 10 years ago when things were a bit simpler. v1.04: dx11 rfactor2 version, road textures and real road improved, some visual bugs fixed. v1.05: dx11 rfactor2 version, some banners have been fixed (no more flickering). v1.1: dx11 rfactor2 version, wind generators and solar panels added as they appear in/around the real track nowadays. Three realroad rubber presets (light, medium, heavy). Rain reflections and marshals also included in the track as well as all current surroundings 2016-2017 (wind generators, solar panels). Also the AIW is done from scratch to allow all rfactor2 features (block path added). I have reworked the road mesh in 3dsMax to allow realroad to work fine. Just subscribe to this one to get the track updated to v1.1 New update to Zolder 2016, this time uploaded to steam to allow better future updates to all users.

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