[UE4] [Finished] [Released] - RaceTrack Construction Kit

sargisstg · May 2020

Hi Polycount Community!

I'm creating a "Race Track Construction Kit" for the Unreal Marketplace and wanted to share the working progress here and get some feedback and critiques.
I've already made a lot of assets for this pack, for example, metal rails, fence rails, tires, banners and etc. (I will attach some screenshots below, P. S. sorry for bad placement of props

it's just for to see what props are ready when all assets will be done I will create a fully playable demonstration map)

They are all using one master's materials and there are many useful parameters to change the look of each prop. For example, there is an option to easily change the stripe color from red-white to blue-white and etc.

Also, I've made unique master material for roads. There is a function to add skidmarks on the road using the vertex painting.

There are still a lot of assets left to do.
I'm planning to add these assets below

Tribune
Pitstop
Flags
Start/Finish line

Also, I will add many road variations with different curbs.
So stay tuned, write comments on what you think about this pack. Will you buy this or not?

And what you would like to see more.

Thanks all in advance.

P.S. Check my marketplace page here

sargisstg · May 2020

Hi again. I've just made quick demonstration test to see how all of these are working.

https://youtu.be/XFaQBZFI1aI

Let me know what you think

Totozoos · May 2020

Looking good!, is it only based on landscape splines or do you plan to provide blueprint options as well?. I think it would be nice to have a bluprint with a single spline controlling the placement of all the props like fence, tires, boards, etc. with options to control variations and offsets between props with a single bp.

sargisstg · May 2020

Totozoos said:

Looking good!, is it only based on landscape splines or do you plan to provide blueprint options as well?. I think it would be nice to have a bluprint with a single spline controlling the placement of all the props like fence, tires, boards, etc. with options to control variations and offsets between props with a single bp.

Thanks for the comment. Currently, they are based on landscape splines but I'm planning to switch on blueprints. I should do some researches because I have not worked with blueprint splines before.

Bytheway if someone knows how to deform the landscape using blueprint splines then I would appreciate it.

sargisstg · May 2020

Hi all. I found some time on weekends to work on tribune modules. I'm trying to keep these simple as possible (not too much polygonal) because they are secondary assets and will be far away from the player/car. I'm still thinking about how to texture them optimally. Maybe the trim sheet would be great for this or I will make some tiled material (Metal, Concrete and etc.) and spread on modules. Let me know if you have any good ideas.

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sargisstg · May 2020

Today I continued working on tribunes. Decided to use multiple materials and give ID's to meshes. So I have created Metal, Paint, Concrete and Floor textures. I also made a seat and baked it from high poly version.

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In my master prop material, I have special parameters to change the colors of seats easily.

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and here is the quick screenshot from my 3ds max scene where I'm creating these modules.

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I still need to make the roof texture and maybe, later on, I will add more modules.

sargisstg · May 2020

Hello. I did some researches in blueprint spline and now I'm happy to share here my results. I made one construction blueprint called "Barrier_Generator". Check this out and let me know what you think

Maybe later on I will add functions like offset, variations and etc.
Thank you Totozoos for the advice.

https://youtu.be/JLjUdXUHD2U

sargisstg · Jun 2020

Hi all. That was a long time I haven't posted any updates here. So here are the start lights I modeled. There are 2 material ID's. One of them is for lights and the other is a trim sheet for metal parts which I will reuse it on other props for sure.

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Also I want to share a screen from my Trello board where you can see what left to do. After having all kits I will recreate Red Bull Ring racetrack using my own kits for the demo

Please let me know what do you think and what should I add in my Trello board. Thanks.

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sargisstg · Jun 2020

Hello there. In the last days, I worked on the grass meshes. I picked up them from my previous project called "Ancient Ruins" and did some refinements.

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I assembled the meshes in the circle like in the picture below and used the "normal thief" script to copy normals from cylinder mesh into grasses. It's a great technique to make the grass meshes look smoothly on the large fields.

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sargisstg · Aug 2020

Hello everyone. I want to share the progress of my work. I finished Spline Barrier Generator, which will help to easily create barriers across the level.

https://youtu.be/cJ-o3GoUScU

Also made spruce tree. It has 4 Lods with billboard. Here are some screenshots.
Next steps will be the creation of the PitStop building modules.
Let me know if someone has questions. Thanks for the attention.

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sargisstg · Sep 2021

Hello everyone after the one year of break I've returned. Yeah, that was too long, there were hard times and I couldn't work on this project. Now everything is all right and decided to continue this amazing project.

In this period of time I've added some tents (small and big ones), portaloo (portable toilet), Guard box, Light pole, Speaker pole, Flags, new tribune modules and etc.

Also fixed some bugs in the spline blueprint.
Now we can say all 3D assets are finished. I placed all of them on the overview map.
Soon I will post a demonstration map and will record the process. Let me know if someone has questions or if you are waiting for this pack

https://youtu.be/rLATa1CuXGY

sargisstg · Sep 2021

Hi everyone.

I've posted a topic in UE4 Forum but I will post it here as well.

I have a problem with the placement of the meshes along the spline. When I start rotating the points, there is a gap between the spline and the road mesh.

I compared it to the Landscape Spline tool and saw that it fits very well, as I expected. I need them to fit perfectly to the spline because after deforming the terrain, some sections of the road start to float in the air or get stuck under it.

I recorded a demo video to show what I mean.

https://youtu.be/iIIv37dm0jU

https://youtu.be/Lgnsf1tPmp4

Please help if someone knows how can I fix it. Only this problem doesn’t let me finish my next marketplace product. Anyone who could help me with this I will send the product as gratitude

Thanks for the attention

sargisstg · Sep 2021

Hi Polycounters I have good news

I've figured out spline blueprint errors and finally created a demo map.
I Inspired by the "Red Bull Ring" racetrack.
Now I preparing files to upload on Unreal Marketplace.
I will share here some quick screenshots and gameplay test video below.