Longford 1967 1.00

2013-04-25
rFactor2 preview video for Longford 1967 v0.7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzsD_I-U3BA
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After four years work...
VERSION 1.0: RELEASED
2013-03-14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHVwyZEOF3w
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- 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

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OCTOBER 19, 2012 - VERSION 0.99 RELEASED
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- New building models: Pub, Tannery, Barn on Tannery Straight, Pit Straight Foot Bridge, food stall and toilets.
- New object models: starter's drum, start finish signs, small camera/spectator towers, culverts/drains, wire fence panels and gates, fuel/oil drums/barrels, aluminium/timber sponsor boards, small toolboxes, oil cans.
- Many more polygons in road (~rF2 specification @ ~1.5m squares = 6 panels wide X ~1.5m long). Bumps are geometry, no TDF bumps.
- Many more polygons in road-side terrain.
- Animated flags and bunting.
- New grass clump textures. More grass clumps.
- New and more car models (spectators, race entrants waiting in paddock, ambulance).
- Higher-res bush textures (most of them).
- New gravel textures.
- New water texture (thanks cgtextures.com :) )
- Added/redone spec and/or normal mapping on a few things.
- Less 2D 'bush walls', more 3D/X-plane bushes.

probably other things too... such as:
- Return of the rainy and overcast versions.
- Flying Mile has been realigned and is more accurate than ever.
- Kink near the end of Tannery Straight now has a more accurate elevation profile.
- King's Bridge now has more even arch/hump.
- My first ever sky textures (dawn, day (lightly cloudy & overcast), sunset, night (blank) :D
- New photo horizon.
- Scratch-made wet road textures, inc. my first ever cube map :D
- 'Helicopter' camera set (Group 4).
- New white painted fences (start area, viaduct, bridges etc).
- Fewer shadows here and there, should improve performance a little.
- More detail on external road (opposite the pub).
- New tram model in the paddock (Used as race control in the '50s & subsequently as the police headquarters during race weekends - Originally Launceston's Tram #4)

0.99 VIDEO PREVIEWS - OCTOBER, 2012
Sunny- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PgqgnAkIrk
Cloudy- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxk3b-RjK4I
Rainy- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQI61g7AInA

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AUGUST 17, 2011 - VERSION 0.97 RELEASED

New road and grass textures
New 3D fences
Updated pits and control tower
Updated road and terrain geometry
Initial implementation of spectator and parked race cars (recreations of Longford entrants)
Some general tidying up of a whole bunch of little things
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Thanks to everyone who voted Longford (v0.9) into 4th place in the Track of the Year poll here in rFC's MOTY 2010!
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A scratch built Longford 1967-ish. Public roads around Longford, Tasmania, used for the Tasman Series, touring cars and bikes in the 50's and 60's. Some top line drivers raced there in the day, including a bunch of F1 world champs.

The circuit was last used for the 1968 event, and these days some of the the roads have changed. Some bits of road have been torn up for the sake of a highway. both bridges have been pulled down. a big levee wall has raised a section of road. isolated bits of road have been neglected and in one area there is a power substation right in the middle of the track. Fortunately the pub is still there and features a sort of museum dedicated to the track.

Made with Bob's Track Builder & 3dsMax.
v0.9 used some grass textures from VLM Rouen with permission, thanks VLM, Elwood and Madhorse. Most textures are now scratch-made.

A small number of building models are/were from an existing GPL wip (not made by me), and Gustaf from the team has allowed me to use some of the models (some of which have been replaced). thanks Gustaf!

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Three Screen Projector Rig vid(HITLab AU)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRrUXBoHFr4
http://www.hitlab.utas.edu.au/wiki/Longford_Track
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Longford Revival (real-life revival event):
http://www.longfordrevival.com.au
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Overall rating since initial release
	479/500 (1779 votes)		1	2	3	4	5
Community Ratings since October 01, 2009			My Ratings
	Sense of Immersion
	Texture Quality
	Track Layout
	Racing Line
	AI Behaviour
	Atmosphere
	Facilities (Pits, Grid etc)
	Cameras
	OK Track Naming
	Addictive-ness
	FPS Performance
	Realistic Track Surface
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Hi fkzet,
Are you running in Dx9 with all the textures at max? I'm not sure if that would make a difference, but it might. Also, sometimes sky issues might be related to the commonmaps.mas in the Locations folder, but I made an effort to have the Longford skies independent of that. Re-installing the track might not help either, but it's worth a try i guess. Just make sure it's at Locations/Longford/Longford1967/Longford1967.scn etc
woochoo on Apr-04-2013

Awsome track. Awsome selection and great effort on it. Bumps, straights, its classic good track with sections and corners to remember, interesting surface and corner-specific unique requirements. Thanks You for that!

But i have no sky at all... It could be mine cus rfactor folder is big. I have some problems with sky on other tracks, sometimes sky is to short and you can see eptyness with buffered grapchics.

Any tips how to fix it ?:>
fkzet on Apr-03-2013

I think the only time I've seen loading bars not progress there has always been a "can't find xxx etc" message waiting when I've alt+tabbed out due to the crash. I don't really know what is happening that's stopping you loading it.
woochoo on Mar-21-2013

Hi Woochoo, I did not have a previous version so far I can recall.

I will delete the current Longford folder and try a reinstall.

Next to that: No there are no error messages and no I did not have any crash to desktop.

Again the sunny and cloudy versions of the track are loading without any problem (within 30 secs), but the rain version of the track will not load at all (loadbar is still empty after 10 minutes loading).

PS: I enjoy both the tracks that work very much; great drive all the way to the finish line - good job!
stone3d on Mar-19-2013

Hi Ston3d, if you had a previous version, did you delete it before installing v1.0? In any case, have you tried deleting the current Longford folder and reinstalling? Are there any error messages or does it CTD?
woochoo on Mar-18-2013

Downloaded the track; looks great - sunny and cloudy version are allright, but; the rain version will not load... anyone else got the same problem?
stone3d on Mar-18-2013

Melchi, I'm not sure what the problem is. The cars are meant to be parked in the paddock, on the grass, under or behind the pit building. Were they parked somewhere else for you?
woochoo on Mar-17-2013

i had problem with the pit in case of the old version. the cars were just standing on the grass so it didn't look like a real pit.
does this problem occure in the new version as well?
melchi zedek on Mar-17-2013

i had problem with the pit in case of the old version. the cars were just standing on the grass so it didn't look like a real pit.
does this problem occure in the new version as well?
melchi zedek on Mar-17-2013

brilliant!! i dont know how accutate the track is, but its seems very very good everything from textures to buildings just everything.

you should try your hand at Symmons and Baskerville. a couple of attempts have been made at each (i helped out with the very first) but they both need redoing
awawaw on Mar-16-2013

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