Woochoo has released the final version of Longford 1967 for rFactor.
This is the last installment of the legendary Tasmanian race track for rFactor as Woochoo is moving onto rFactor 2 while a third party is taking care of the conversion to Simbin simulations.
The track is equipped to host 48 cars in the garages and on the grid.
Changelog
– project has migrated from Bob’s Track Builder (Thanks Piddy!) to 3dsMax
– a few small tidy-up things
– uv unwrapped gravel areas (inc. new textures, based on textures from cgtextures.com)
– uv unwrapped road intersections
– vertext paint on road, terrain, vegetation, and some other things
– aerial photo of terrain now lerps closer to road edge
– road surface has additional texture channel, mapped to give illusion of racing line
– performance improvements from shadow optimisation
– performance improvements from mesh batching, reducing the total number of objects from ~9000 to ~3000
– new road decal meshes, and now tagged as ‘decal’ (can be closer to road without z-fighting)
– adjustments to wet road effect
– adjustments to wet road cube map
– viaduct normal map and higher res main texture (same old model)
– smoother corner radius for viaduct corner, pub corner, tannery corner, newry corner, mountford corner
– pub corner road surface now has bump where union street joins wellington street
– control tower now has textures reflecting block construction of the ground floor, and timber construction for the first and second floor
– control tower now has higher res normal mapping
– control tower now has a smoother windowpane, removing some z-fighting
– scratch-made 3d marshal/mechanic meshes
– remapping of some fence posts
– loading screens biased to 75% width, to display correct aspect on 16:9 monitors
– mas files reorganised to reduce overall download size
– added missing mipmaps on willow textures, causing a tearing of the texture in “high” texture detail mode (so it’s fixed now)
– simple water animation (water is probably flowing too fast, & only spec and normal maps are animated)
Located outside of Longford, Longford Circuit was a 7 kilometer race track on the Australian island of Tasmania. The circuit opened in 1953 and was operational until 1968, its layout included nine corners, the scenic circuit included a railway crossing as well as a bridge and a viaduct.
[boxdownload]Download Longford 1967 for rFactor 1. Here[/boxdownload]
