… of 2010. This morning we released version 1.2.0 of rfDynHUD. The new version addresses many bugs and brings many long requested new features. Check out the changelog for the full list. Read the full news on our homepage.
rfDynHUD is now Open-Source under the GPL v2. The source code is available for everyone contacting us. The new release also includes a SDK for creating your own widgets.
The other day I felt like Steve Purcell. On our last team meeting, I was pointed to Jürgen Wellbrock who is crazy fan enough to tattoo our logo on his back.
We salute you in gratitude and promise not to change our logo in the foreseeable future. 🙂
Fernando silently continues his updates on the Tyrrell. The car is undergoing a big update, that involved body proportions and detail work. Work on the body is nearly completed. The wheelbase was redone based on car specification and technical regulations. The sidepod and the cockpit opening were updated, remodelling of the splitter, rear airbox/sidepod and introduction of modelled NACA-ducts. Fernando will continue to work on the frontwing.
Please note, that the normals on the cars haven’t been done yet, so the surfaces in the viewport look off and much to smooth. Normals will be done in a later stage together with the joint lines.
In the meantime, despite very little time at the moment, Andy is working on the helmet shape and together with Dennis, they are working on the template, to get the helmet-painting started.
In March I met with Raül, one of our painters and since them I’ve been trying to arrange trips to other members in the team. This has been quite hard with all our schedules and I’m very happy that at least my trip to Munich is rock-solid now, to meet Andy, Marco and David.
Now, we had an idea. Just because it’s been quiet in the blog, doesn’t mean we have nothing to talk about and we thought this would be a nice chance to get in contact with some racing fans from Munich and the area. We would arrange a location and have a nice evening with some beers. Talking about Modding, SimRacing, Life, the Universe and Everything.
If you are interested get in contact with us at dahie (at) ctdpworld.org
The time will be Saturday, September 25th in the evening. We have not ordered any table yet, so I’d like to get feedback till thursday evening to make the arrangements and to give out the details later.
I’m curious about how many take on the offer, to meet some of us in person. 🙂
take care,
Dahie
And again in German: Continue reading CTDP Drinkup in Munich
Philip ‘msater’ Oakley has been working on the McLaren MP4/9 car for the last couple of weeks. He is also one of our new members working on his first model. The original McLaren was build by Marco Büttner and now receives the necessary updates to bring the model up to standards. Philip has mainly been working on the back end of the car, which includes the cockpit (needed resizing, it’s not yet finished) the engine cover, the rearwing, and the sidepods. He still need to do the rear suspension reorganization and the rest of our long todo list.
Next on the list to do is finish the cockpit resizing, reorganize the rear suspension to make it accurate, and make sure the rear of the car under the rear wing is good, along with the diffuser and the bottom of the rear wing After that, he is going to start on the nose cone and front wing.
Philip is the only one in the team using Blender 3D. We are curious how this turns out.
Here are a couple of pictures from the current state of the car. Enjoy!
Over the past few weeks Fernando Prieto has been busy reworking the Tyrell. After the reviews were done by AndreasT and myself he took over the model and working through our issue reports.
Fernando is one of our new guys and Tyrell is his first car with the team. He is very motivated and happy to show his first work in progress shots of the car. Note that these are no beauty renders and there are still a lot of things to do.
A lot of recent work wasn’t really visible and more a matter of organization and research. We hope to show more new things in the future.
Seriously, we never got so much feedback on a call-for-help. We had 8 people contacting us and we are currently welcoming everyone to the team, introduce them to our infrastructure and hand out the work. We were really surprised by this number and have to work to give everyone their work packages. This will be a new wave and hopefully we have a lot to show you in the next couple of months.
At the same time as I’d like to say thanks to those who responded to our call, I’d like to quit the call-for-help now. CTDP is always looking for new members, even when we don’t say it out loud. Having so many new faces at once is very nice, but also a challenge. I don’t want to discourage anyone from contacting us, but we can’t handle more people right now. Instead I’d like to say, contact us in a couple of weeks when the dust has settled and we can say where we are at again.
Thank you for the responses,
PS: I wonder if such a call also works for track texture artists…
We are overwhelmed! Alot more people responded to our call for help on the 1994 mod than I anticipated. Many talented and interesting people who want to know what to do next. AndreasT and I are doing extra shifts to review cars and have enough cars ready to assign.
As if he’d know we’d be posting this Call-for-modelers, David Alby Medina contacted us in the week before. He was interested in modeling for the team to improve his portfolio. After short talks, he agreed to provide the helmet we have been looking for almost 2 years.
The story story about the 1994 helmet was another one of the long ones. For the 2006 mod we had the awesome helmet model by Eugenio Faria, unfortunately he wasn’t available anymore to help us create a new helmet for 1994. Marco started a helmet, but quit half way through it. Afborro succumbed to our begging at the beginning of the year, but was cut short due to his commitment with Reiza. We were looking for external helmets, but none from that time period met our expectations. Now thanks to DAM, we have our helmet and he a great piece for his portfolio once it is finished.
This is the the helmet of Ayrton Senna, of who we happen to have the most and best reference pictures. There will be 2 more common variants of the helmet for other drivers.
Now with the helmet done, our helmet painters can finally start to work their way through the drivers list.
We got reports of one annoying bug in the 1.2 release, which we’d like to address in this maintenance patch. Read the full story over at our website.
I finished work on for a new version of some of my DDS-Utils. Badds received no changes, but Dropps and Radds are now both available as version 1.1.
Both tools now support 2 more graphics formats. You can now import GrandPrix4-TEX and TGA-files, This allows you to convert GP4-textures in one drop. In Radds you can now refresh the file system tree. I also fixed many errors and improved stability.
Radds is for reviewing and preview of TEX and DDS-Files,
Download Version 1.1: for Windows, for Mac, for Java
Dropps now supports conversion from TGA and TEX.
Download Version 1.1: for Windows, for Mac and for Java
Badds was not updated. it’s for batch scaling large amounts of DDS-files at once.
Download Version 1.0: for Windows, for Mac and for Java
All three tools are released under the Gnu Public License V3. The source code repository at Github is open for everyone and I encourage forking and modification. At Github is also an issue tracker and I’m happy about feedback.