tracks

[avengerevan18]

can someone please explain to me how to make tracks .

[lookin4myscooter]

If you don't know computers very well your not gonna have any fun with that. I don't know you, or saying you don't know computers. Just warning you there is a lot to it, and I imagine it takes alot of time (probably even with blender, I don't know), but just a heads up. In case you ask, no I don't know how to make them, but I have seen how it's done. Just a friendly warning. :-)

[avengerevan18]

ok thanks

[MonsterJam2008]

If you want to make crappy tracks and it be easy use google sketchup, that i can help you with. If you want to make good tracks use blender, there im clueless.

[monstabubba]

if you dont have the patience of learning the hard stuff i.e. blender... i would highly suggest the less appealing sketchup... however both are a b%#@! to get in game... there are a few tutorials on the site that you may find helpful from many blender users such as rockcrwlr, outlawed, Tom P., and even PC... hope this helps a little

[Patriotic Canadian]

If you want to make crappy tracks and it be easy use google sketchup,

Technically you can make crappy tracks with anything from maya to autocad, but sketchup is just a catalyst for tripe

[Tom P.]

Don't even bother downloading Google Sketchup. RoR wise, Its not too great and creates SO many vertices that are not needed. I would download Blender first so you don't confuse yourself. I used Sketchup for a LONG LONG time before most people in the community knew alot about Orge mesh exporting in blender, or even working the program rather. It sure is easier to texture, but I have only seen ONE person that made good tracks in sketchup, Ethan Dean. I don't how he did it, but he did. Anyways, Blender is harder than sketchup at first. Hell, I have just recently figured out within the past few months how to actually make pretty good looking tracks. So in the long run, no matter what anyone says, do not download Google sketchup for making tracks in Rigs of Rods.

[Ethan]

I just want to chip in my two cents on this.

Back when I was making ROR tracks in Sketchup, I swore blind I would never use Blender because it seemed so complicated. I said "Sketchup is easy, Blender hurts my head" - and now, it's completely the other way around. I've been using Blender several months now for other projects, and every now and then I go into Sketchup for the lulz and it's impossible to work with in comparison.

The controls and tools in Sketchup are hard to deal with and ultimately hold you back, but the main issue is performance. The problem is that Sketchup cannot join edges. Think about a cube, just a normal cube, six faces. You'd expect those faces to be joined up at the edges, making one solid object that's only four verts, one on each corner, right? This would happen in Blender, but Sketchup doesn't do that, so each face is separate. Each face of the cube is four verts. Think about it - 6 x 4 = 24. 24 verts for a cube. One cube built in Sketchup would take up the rendering power of six cubes built in Blender. Of course, cubes aren't much, but think about that multiplication on a track and a stadium. Bottom line is, even the simplest models in Sketchup are stuffed with far more verts than they need to have. No matter how conservative on verts you are with your Sketchup models, it will never perform as well as if the same model with the same wireframe was built in Blender.

Like I said, I used to be devoted to Sketchup and swore I'd never go to Blender. I thought it was big and scary and complicated, but it just needed getting used to. Once you are up to speed in Blender, you will never look back. Everything is easier to operate, the tools are better, you have more control over every single aspect, and as a result it's quicker. And it doesn't mean you have to abandon your Sketchup projects and start over either, because you can easily import the model into Blender, fix it up and continue from there.

I'm telling you - you will be better with Blender, and in the long run it's a hell of a lot easier.