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.

• 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.

• Mipmap, shaders and panel length tutorial - What are Mipmaps, why are they needed and how they behave. Also includes correct road panel length and basic shaders introduction.

• 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..

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

• Rain reflections

• 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 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

Other sites

Track building forums, lists of videos etc

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

• Tips and tricks for 3Ds Max