When it comes to (nfs)-modding, the modding of tracks was always more of my favourite as creating cars, because tracks are the world that gives you more creativity as you can race, drive and roam, beside a car is more or less a static object. The mod tools – talking about back in the days … Read more
TLDR? – just click here to get the tool instead V-Rally 2 PAK and Asset Format Reference This document consolidates the reverse-engineering results used by VR2 AssetExplorer 0.6.11. It covers the PAK container, Eden LZ77, checksums, offsets,platform detection, ZAP archives, car and track resources, textures, geometry,sound, naming, failed interpretations, corrected solutions, validation, andremaining unknowns. No … Read more
The concept of this track is as old as nfs3, at least for me. Since I discovered the possibility to mod tracks I always wanted to have a pretty short eight-shaped track. But as the tools when I stopped modding nfs years ago where not able to achieve this, I recently gave my old idea … Read more
ever since nfs3 hot pursuit was out it was uncanny that all tracks in this game have a counterpart. Hometown <-> Country Woods, Redrock Ridge <-> Lost Canyons, Atlantica <-> Aquatica, Rocky Pass <-> The Summit and Empire City <-> Tr02b. Fair enough, TR02B was canned and ist just a remain in the psx release, … Read more
As it turned out, using already converted NFS1 tracks (e.g. NFS3, NFS4 or Assetto versions) being highly inaccurate (e.g. NFS3 “Rusty Springs” is actually a reskinned “Oasis Springs”) I got deeper into getting the original geometry exported. Upon research I discovered the mighty tools of Andrew Gura (andrew_gura) within the discord community of RENFS. I … Read more
If you want to import some or all Need For Speed III – Hot Pursuit PSX tracks to blender this short guide might help you. I digged into it to get to the data of the Playstation-only Tracks Autocross, Caverns, Scorpio-7, Space Race and The Room, but also to finally see the legend TR02B myself. … Read more
In this *new* tutorial I explain how everyone of you can easily import tracks from NFS4 into blender. Forget the old tutorial. After digging the internet I found a small set of tools that will make your life much easier. TL-DR – Take me directly to the tutorial! The old way as described in this … Read more