What do you expect???

First, let me say i’m speaking just for me in this post, not for the whole team. These thoughts are my thoughts and maybe some of the CTDP members share my point of view on some topics, mabye not.

Well reading the last devblog comments in the last few weeks, there’s a bit sadness coming to me. I don’t know, if we really can meet all these expectations. Sure, we worked over 2 years on it and we’re pretty proud to what it is now, but it is still just a Formula one mod. Not more. We had some non CTDP work to do,too. We did the BMW 2007 for ISI and we also did some other game stuff which was not ISI related. But we never gave up our „baby“, the 2006 F1 mod. We gave attention to a lot of small details because it’s something special for us. I don’t know if anybody else will see the same behind the mod like us. It was part of our daily life during the past 2 years, we had good days with and bad days,too. But in the end, it doesn’t even matter, it was worth the work. It was the last season of one of the greatest drivers ever. This is our way to pay tribute to him. I really feel a big gap on today’s formula one when I watch the old 2006 videos. Sure the post Schumacher F1 was good,too but it’s not the same anymore for me.

I’m so proud of the whole team. Everybody did his part to make this mod become something special and I’ll really miss that once the mod is released. We did the best we could do with all these restrictions.

So nevertheless, I hope you’ll have a great time with this mod when it is released (even if it’s 2 years too late), but don’t be too harsh if you don’t like it. For us, it’s still something special you can’t understand when you’re not involved in the project.

Thanks for your attention.

Cube Map Experiments – Feedback needed!

Hi guys.

6e66o did some experiments with the cube map and he tested it with a beta version of our mod,too. So now we’re a bit unsure what to do. Add it to our mod or not? If we add it, we have to adjust the alpha layers of all of our textures and we don’t know if the community like it or not. So again your opinion is needed. I think all of you now know how the mod looks like so i only link to the pictures from the edited version with the new cubemap by 6e66o.

http://simscreens.blogspot.com/2008/10/rf-ctdp-2006-ferrari-with-new-cubemap.html

2006 Driver suits – The big preview

Hi everyone, as i said in another post last week I’ll post the driver suits, I finished the first versions of all of them tonight so here’s the previews.

Please give me good feedback on accuracy and bugs which you can see every little helps 🙂

Edit: Forgot to add Williams, added now 🙂

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Clichees are great!

Thanks Andy for this nice piece of work clichees.

A 2D Artist, a 3D Artist and a Project Manager are having lunch. Something in the manager’s salad beginns to move. Nervous and obviously disgusted, he pulls a shacky cocoon from the salad. The 2D Artist beats it with his spoon, the 3D Artist with his knife untill, finally the cocoon opens up and a fairy with butterfly-wings gets out.

“Thanks for freeing me” she said. “For this, each shall ‘ave  a wish.”

The 2D Artist imidiately asks for his “own island in the carabbean” and “never having to work again”. The fairy agrees and the 2D Artist vanishes.

The 3D Artists thinks for a minute and wishes to “become Production Supervisor at ILM, this would be nice!”. The fairy agrees and the 3D Artist vanishes.

The project manager looks at the fairy and thinks. Finally he just sais “Well, actually, I have nothing to wish for, but it would be cool, if both of them were back on time for the afternoon meeting.”

Yes, we have come down to telling jokes here! We just have to explain, what the everyday problems, developing a mod are. 🙂

Added Tutorials

I took some time during the last few weeks and rewrote some of my tutorials, which cover some basic texture handling in rFactor, CTDP’s mods and the use of our templates. Not everything is ready yet and I have to proof read it in the next couple of days, but to give the impression, I put it online already.

I’d like to get feedback, if there are technical areas, I should also cover in the future.