Comments on: rFactor Modding – Virtua_LM Tutorials

By: random1self

random1self — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:31:46 +0000

i have a confident grasp of modeling, but, how do you export rfactor format models from max 2010?

By: MarkusM

MarkusM — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:34:05 +0000

hmmm, no interest in talking about modding, as feeding the troll (vince) seems to be much more important.

By: Klaas Jan

Klaas Jan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:34:26 +0000

Vince Klortho:
I guess you missed the fact that VLM is not working on the Prototype C conversion thanks to the ineptness of this site.

Inept? At least it wasn’t offline for months like RSC..

By: GeraArg

GeraArg — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:41:01 +0000

Vince Klortho:
I guess you missed the fact that VLM is not working on the Prototype C conversion thanks to the ineptness of this site.

Is preferable to look like a wanker, to speak and confirm it is a wanker.
Thank you for confirming what we expected.

By: delaney1970

delaney1970 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:06:30 +0000

fpol: VirtualIR is about the leader now in getting sim news out there. It’s a nightly *must* check site for me now.

I agree. This is my favourite sim racing news source.

By: MarkusM

MarkusM — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:55:01 +0000

nice tutorials. some tricks, i didn’t knew. this program is so full of features, so it takes some time to get knowledge of all. BTB might be easier for the beginner. but max is much better when it comes to precision, and organising large projects with groups and layers.
this morphmap plugin seems to be a great addition for remapping tracksurfaces in an easy way.
thanx for sharing

By: fpol

fpol — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:13:43 +0000

Vince Klortho: I guess you missed the fact that VLM is not working on the Prototype C conversion thanks to the ineptness of this site.

Really unexpected and unfortunate comment. VirtualIR is about the leader now in getting sim news out there. It's a nightly *must* check site for me now.

By: scca1981

scca1981 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:09:23 +0000

Vince Klortho: I guess you missed the fact that VLM is not working on the Prototype C conversion thanks to the ineptness of this site.

The WIP on rFc lists "Virtua_LM Junior Team". Quite easy to assume with VLM in the name thats who's doing it. Also the description says nothing about someone else doing the conversion and only lists VLM members. Maybe it should read "Converted by someone affiliated with VLM but not actually VLM".

By: Klaas Jan

Klaas Jan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:36:10 +0000

Vince Klortho:
I guess you missed the fact that VLM is not working on the Prototype C conversion thanks to the ineptness of this site.

And thank you for bringing your usual RSC-cheerfulness to this great site…

By: aj_1986

aj_1986 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:19:40 +0000

Vince Klortho: I guess you missed the fact that VLM is not working on the Prototype C conversion thanks to the ineptness of this site.

Ineptness, eh. I guess you missed the fact that this site is run by only one guy, who 99% of the time does a fantastic job of keeping us all as up-to-date as he conceivably can with all the latest sim racing news - all in his spare time, and unpaid - and that he is human, made a mistake by not putting "_JT" at the end of the mod team's name a while ago, and subsequently apologised.

By: klaasvh

klaasvh — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:16:25 +0000

hoover: Why don’t more modding groups use Blender? I know 3ds max is more or less industry standard these days, but considering its hefty price tag *and* the fact that Blender is free both as in beer and as in speech, it leaves me wondering why modders didn’t switch to Blender years ago. Of course, they’re all using licensed copies of 3ds max, right? At least I guess this must be the case, given the reluctancy to switch to an open source product. There are some impressive demos out there of what’s possible with Blender (google “Elephants Dream”), it’s scriptable and extensible in Python I believe so it shouldn’t be too hard to write an rF export plugin or something. All the best, hoover

The main benefit of using 3ds max is are the modding tools for it. You can set up the materials and export your meshes to rFactor format directly from 3ds max. If you use Blender you'd have to use a third party program like 3dsimed to set up the materials and to convert your models to rFactor format.

By: Vince Klortho

Vince Klortho — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:29:49 +0000

I guess you missed the fact that VLM is not working on the Prototype C conversion thanks to the ineptness of this site.

By: scca1981

scca1981 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:13:20 +0000

Less tutorials/videos more finish prototype-c :)

By: Klaas Jan

Klaas Jan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:32:31 +0000

Could somebody hand Virtua_LM the “How to actually release mods”-tutorial…

By: hoover

hoover — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:40:05 +0000

Why don’t more modding groups use Blender? I know 3ds max is more or less industry standard these days, but considering its hefty price tag *and* the fact that Blender is free both as in beer and as in speech, it leaves me wondering why modders didn’t switch to Blender years ago.

Of course, they’re all using licensed copies of 3ds max, right? At least I guess this must be the case, given the reluctancy to switch to an open source product.

There are some impressive demos out there of what’s possible with Blender (google “Elephants Dream”), it’s scriptable and extensible in Python I believe so it shouldn’t be too hard to write an rF export plugin or something.

All the best, hoover