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Oran Park Laser Scanned – Previews

Posted on February 7th, 2009 in rFactor – 13 Comments

Brendon Pywell is close to bring another laser-scanned track to rFactor as Oran Park is making its way into the simulation.

Following the success of his first Eastern Creek release, lots of data about the track has been acquired, using techniques such as Aerial Laser Scanning (LiDAR), Real Time Kinematic GPS, and Robotic Total Stations. Even though only 5% of data compared to those used in Eastern Creek has been used, a more consistent result is expected.

The track has been made using a special edition of Bob’s Track Builder and will include the following features:

  • A track surface that fits to within 2cm of the point cloud data.
  • Terrain that follows the flow of the Aerial data.
  • Walls, fencing and rails that flow with the land.
  • 3d saw toothed ripple strips placed according the GPS-RTK data.
  • Grass, Track Markings, Advertising signs.
  • Hundreds of tyres placed using new String-Object feature to be available in v0.6.
  • Over 100 rubbish bins.

Located outside of Sydney, Oran Park has hosted V8 Supercars, the Superbike World Champiopnship and two rounds of Formula One. The track will be closed in 2009 and demolished to make room for housing estate, the accurate virtual version will live on forver though, thanks to Brendon Pywell and lascer-scanning technology.

Via Bob’s Track Builder


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  • phil23

    Cool, love this track :happy:

    Didn’t realise they were demolishing it :sad2:

  • http://www.rf.smakugames.com PvtStash

    This is so wrong, we have enough houses anyway so why demolish part of our racing heritage? Hmmmm seeing as poloticians are no real use, how bout we demolish them to make way for a new track? Thank you to the people who are doing this for rF, at least this wondeful track will have somewhere to live on and when the grand kids ask I can show them. When the track closes we will have lost one of the best layouts we have, our reigionals were always the best fun to drive. RIP Oran Park.

  • ForzaBarca88

    *drools*
    Ive driven here a couple of times (same with eastern creek) so really looking to this!

  • ForzaBarca88

    looking forward*

    And yeh, its a real shame about the track closing but money seems to take priority above all things these days.

  • http://www.rf.smakugames.com PvtStash

    Ha! Just noticed the Spectrum signage, the company my brother works for. I bet he won’t drive this one as it will make him think he’s at work…. :P

  • Mr. A

    Shame about the real track, but it’s great that we can preserve a digital version of the track with today’s technology. Looking forward to trying it! :grin:

  • ermax18

    So is aerial laser scanning sort of a way to scan a track without official permission? hehe. Who needs access to the track, just fly over it.

  • http://www.ajira-racing.com TeroD

    Great! Really looking forward to racing this with V8s :)

  • Sajax

    Brendon, you are a saviour :D

    So glad we will have a realistic version of this track to live on. Such a shame it’s going to be demolished.

  • Siggs

    Sweet, another laser track. Wonderful, but a real shame about the track. Dispicable.
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  • fpol

    I think this is great (and hopefully the future) for sims. I’m a big iRacing fan, who still likes my other sims, and a key area that mods/other sims really need to up their game on is tracks. This is awesome.

    I’d love to see something like ViR, laser scanned for rFactor, etc since the current version is…well it’s below par and this would be a great showcase track for mods like the Grand Slam since Grand Am races there every year.

  • PieterN

    Really lookin forward to this track. The amount of detail and realism looks awesome !

  • kill4f00d

    I hope a conversion to GTR Evolution happens eventually. The track looks amazing by the way. :sd:

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