Tutorials, Tips and Tricks

Specific Tutorials

These focus on a specific subject

• Keyboard Controls for Bob's Track Builder

• BTB Icons - Rather than trying to name or describe the icon, just post a picture of it.

• BTB and 3DSimEd Track Merging Tutorial - Seamlessly merge tracks using Bob's Track Builder and 3DSimEd.

• Tutorial: Making Smooth Corners in BTB - Tight corners can be very jagged, but there is a simple fix.

• Constant Radius Corners in Bob's Track Builder - A common feature of purpose built race tracks, but some trickery is required to make them.

• Perfect Straights in Bob's Track Builder - Also common to purpose built tracks, also requires some trickery.

• Bump and Specular Map Creation - A step-by-step tutorial for creating good quality Bump- and Specmaps with Photoshop.

• Making a Rally Stage with height data in BTB..

• Visgroups

• Simple video tutorial "HOW TO" create 3D model in Sketchup 6 and import it to BTB...

• Mas Utility tutorial

• Fog values in the *.scn file

• Problems with stroboscopic shadows

• rFactor swaps textures

• Making Trees Without the 'Mirror Effect'

• Easy way to backup a BTB project

• Stepped (horizontal) SObjects - Useful for pit garages on slopes.

• AIW files for bridges/crossovers - Fixing the racing line so it doesn't jump up when there's a bridge.

• AIW Fuel Usage Fix - How To! - How to fix the "AIW cars running out of fuel"

• Using XPacker to Make Precise Cross Sections - Do you need a point with exact coordinates?

• Simple Collisions - Maintain a decent frame rate by using very simple collision objects

• Updating an XPack - Inserting an updated XPack into a project that already uses an older version

Blender

Please note a lot of Blender tutorials are for older versions. In later versions some of the things/keyboard shortcuts are different.

• "Getting Started" videos - Introducing the interface, navigation and basic object editing.

• Creating a road/track by copying a section around a curve - This gives you a similar degree of control to what BTB gives you; modify the path and the road updated automatically without having to be rebuilt, and textures/cross sections can be edited with ease.

• Creating a simple road (not the only way, but it works)

• Terrain mapping with Blender - make a texture "flow" along terrain rather than tiling. This can also be used to properly map a track texture if it doesn't already flow.

Other sites

Track building forums, lists of videos etc

• Rallyesim (Française):
  • Tracks: Tutoriels, Ressources & Aides

• Tips and tricks for 3Ds Max