Category: F1 1994

WIP Footwork 1994 Part 1

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!

WIP Lotus 1994 Part 5

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

Andy is doing goood…

We already started previewing the details of the Pacific car 2 weeks ago. Andy enjoyed a week in the snow and is now back and nearly finished with his update of the car. He added a huge amount of details and is left with some mapping fixes, before the Pacific car will be the first to rollout ingame. While it was the last team in 1994, it’ll be the first this time. Enjoy some more close-up shots on the model-details.

This aren’t renders, but from the simple viewport, so use your imagination and “project” some Anti Aliasing (Hey, aren’t we all cylons after all?)

WIP Lotus 1994 Part 4

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. 🙂

What are you doing part 2

Andy continues his magic. This car is still missing a piece, you’ll notice when you try to change to nose. Right now you’d hear the pit crew call for a new chassis, when the frontwing is broken. Back in the days they had T-cars. Another term, which modern F1-fans don’t know about and which let you feel like an old man. Enjoy the car!

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Car designations in 1994

Car designations, chassis-types are a nice way to identify the specific car of a season and it’s a nice way to have synonyms when writing about it. However, they are a pitfall, if you aren’t too deep into the background of the series you are writing about. Since I don’t have all types in my head, I try to avoid them. Even though, I don’t endorse it (hey do what you want 😉 ), articles from the devblog are quoted and sometimes wrong information are added. Please do your research or ask us before you guess what designation the car in question has.

Why do I bring it up, there were some confusions between the Lotus 107C and 109 and the Minardi M193B and M194. Both were driven in 1994, usually after the big reglement changes after spain, many teams brought B-Versions to the next races. Lotus, Sauber and Minardi did so. Ferrari also brought a major overhaul of their car in Canada. Often this was accompanied by livery changes.

Quick rule of thumb: Right now we only work on the cars with the Specifcations of the first 5 races. If we post pictures, it’s always the early spec of the car. So if you look for the official designation. Consider this please.

Deciphering the past: Minardi 1994

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.

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WIP Lotus 1994 Part 3

The third post about Lotus is in Juluka’s own words:

Stage 3 of the progress on the upscale of the 1994 Lotus: Wow, I must say I had limited knowledge of playing with vector paths. I usually just tried to smear and smudge lines into submission, but after playing around with it a little, I think I was able to get some decent results with the lines on the car. I have all the sponsors and decals upscaled and on the car now. I still have to do the driver’s names with their country’s flags. I will attempt that tomorrow and continue to “Clean Up” the lines in the areas they are smudged or a little ragged. Thanks Dahie for the opportunity, hope it makes the grade!

WIP Lotus 1994 Part 2

Yesterday we started our little preview on the Lotus 107C. Juluka made the pictures I posted yesterday during the last week. A bit more recent – as in yesterday – are the images below. They already show most of the logos, but there are a few areas and decals, which will need some attention.

Juluka, as most of our painters uses Vector-paths to create the smooth lines on the car. It takes some time to get used to them, when you use it the first time. You don’t paint anymore, but you form curves and these filled curves are as smooth as they can get and scale, if we ever need to increase the resolution again. It’s also much easier to fit the lines across mapping seams. Usually when you have the side of an object and the top of the object, they both areas are mapped independently and you have to fit the lines to smoothly cross the resulting edge. With paths this fiddle-work can be done much quicker.

I’ll post more pictures when I get them. 🙂