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.
phil23
February 7th, 2009 at 13:54
Cool, love this track
Didn’t realise they were demolishing it
PvtStash
February 7th, 2009 at 14:54
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
February 7th, 2009 at 14:55
*drools*
Ive driven here a couple of times (same with eastern creek) so really looking to this!
ForzaBarca88
February 7th, 2009 at 14:59
looking forward*
And yeh, its a real shame about the track closing but money seems to take priority above all things these days.
PvtStash
February 7th, 2009 at 15:03
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
February 7th, 2009 at 15:24
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!
ermax18
February 7th, 2009 at 16:01
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.
TeroD
February 7th, 2009 at 17:53
Great! Really looking forward to racing this with V8s :)
Sajax
February 7th, 2009 at 18:39
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
February 7th, 2009 at 18:44
Sweet, another laser track. Wonderful, but a real shame about the track. Dispicable.
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fpol
February 7th, 2009 at 20:37
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
February 8th, 2009 at 02:46
Really lookin forward to this track. The amount of detail and realism looks awesome !
kill4f00d
February 9th, 2009 at 03:41
I hope a conversion to GTR Evolution happens eventually. The track looks amazing by the way.