Category: Textures

James ”juluka’ Bendy has had a very productive weekend so far working on the Ferrari textures. See the first pass here – this is without any shadows, shaders and no dirt yet. Alot will happen until we see the final textures ingame.

James ‘Juluka’ Bendy has been busy on the Footwork. He is identifying the trackversions for the first couple of GPs and is doing everything he can to get the squares right. James in his own words:

Here is the Monaco Livery. Note the changes in the matrix designs on the upper side pods of the car … those guys must have had alot of time on their hands to change squares all the time. I am beginning to refer to this car as my son calls it, the confetti car… 🙂

So here is a shot of the Monaco version:

Once the car is ready on James’ part, it’ll go the usual process of getting into my hands for review and Andy’s hands for going ingame.

Yesterday we hit a small wall, as Pacific was ingame and we had to decide which car was to go ingame next. As I’m busy with my semester end I needed to do some catching up on my work reviewing the cars we got finished. Finished most often means Marco did his work on the model and somebody painted a set of textures. This may look ready, but it proved to be good practice to have an eye on it before sending it ingame. This is the last chance to remove the biggest issues and so we try to catch them. Now yesterday, we didn’t have a car readily reviewed and so I spent my day working on Ligier, identifiying some issues and tweaking some stuff on the textures. Today I spent half my day doing the same on Jordan.

Jordan was modeled by Marco Büttner and he also painted the initial textures in 1024×1024. The textures were upscaled by Daniel ‘Codan’ Fredrich.The textures aren’t finished yet, as some logos need improving and the colors stand for debate.

While Ligier had some proportion issues, which Andy will address when putting the car ingame, Jordan was a clean shape without issues. Great work on this one. Marco!

Here is a comparison between the very first and the very latest texture version.

James ‘Juluka’ Bendy continued working on the Footwork, you can see some preview below. I in return gave my comments about the Lotus and James already fixed many of my noted issues. Andy spent last weekend on the pacific. Stefan aka Erale began work on a new helmet model. We have been missing a good one, which is why there are no helmets for the mod yet. Hopefully this branch of work can beginn soon.

Few weeks ago, on a rare boring weekend, Daniel Senff, uh me, started redoing the yet missing highres texture of Footwork. I didn’t come that far. I requested some changes on the mapping and so the work was on hold, until Marco Büttner could add his changes. Now James Bendy has finished Lotus for the moment and we switched tasks. He is continuing my Footwork and I’ll review his Lotus and add my magic dust.

Juluka had some more to say about Footwork:

Here are some more WIP screens of the FA15. The Brazil Livery is about 95% completed. I have to do the driver names and make some minor adjustments to the matrix design squares to get the design on the car correct. In the mean time I am searching for per race photos so I can proceed with the other liveries. Canada, Monaco and San Marino have limited photos, but I think I am close to having those figured out. The Spain Livery may be an issue of correctness as I have yet to find any good photos of this race and video does not cut it…

Happy Holidays everyone!

Much like today, 1994 motor racing saw the involvement of many up and coming technology companies. Blended with long established brands and the traditional sponsors of the past, Formula One cars were “dressed” with logos that test the fact that Formula One was then and is still a worldwide sport.

Team Lotus is but one example. In 1994, Team Lotus was beginning a season that would end with the Team eventually with drawing from the sport. With this situation at hand, however, Team Lotus was able to draw some of the most prevalent sponsorships of the time in the sport.

Many Formula One cars showed livery changes over the course of the race season to incorporate sponsorships with the targeting of various marketing areas the race schedule provided. Continue reading WIP Lotus 1994 Part 5

Juluka continued his work on the car texture and delivered his first version.
Next step is, that I get the texture for review and make my comments and remarks for improvement. In the meantime he already continued work on the first special livery, driven by Johnny Herbert in Brazil. Upon further picture analysis we found, that a variation of this livery was driven at the Pacific GP as well. James theorized, that Lotus planed to run more special liveries throughout the following GPs, but as both cars didn’t finish in Aida the plan got scrapped and the rather decided on a constant livery change in France. Lots of livery history here. 🙂

The last one is a picture of the WIP of the Brazil-Johnny-Herbert-livery. Everybody enjoy your thanksgiving, if you life in the US like James does. 🙂

Unfortunately, I have picked all the backmarkers. While it’s cool to paint cars like Larrousse, Simtek and Pacific that somewhat have their own history, it can can also be very stressful because they actually needed huge amount of money. On the one hand they needed drivers like the legendarily rejectful Jean-Dénis Délétraz for Larrousse, on the other one they have had sponsors that nobody has ever heard of, therefore gone bankrupt and disappeared without a trace. But thanks to Christian and his magazine scans, I could manage to identify some no-names that were on the Minardi M193B/M194.

Continue reading Deciphering the past: Minardi 1994