Buttonwillow 'The Circuit' - Progress Updates

Buttonwillow – 'The Circuit' Progress Update

Work on the Buttonwillow Raceway Park tracks is moving along well, and the core groundwork is now in place.

All reference data has been fully organized and set up in the 3D software. The primary 3D track splines have now been completed for The Circuit, the classic track layouts, and the kart track. As well as the paddock areas. These splines basically define the edges of the track in 3D space. You can see them in the images for this post.

With that done, the track surface for The Circuit itself has essentially completed development. This was essentially filling in the lines, and making it follow the camber and elevation of the data between them.

Work has now begun on the surrounding terrain, along with initial development of the paddock areas and pit lane. These areas are important as they define much of the atmosphere and usability of the facility, but progress is steady, and they’re 90% done now.

The quality of the source data has made this phase especially enjoyable to work on. The drone captures in particular have already proven very useful for accurate terrain shaping and upcoming texture work. Having detailed top down photos is super useful.

Next steps focus on expanding terrain coverage, refining paddock layout, and continuing environment development around the new circuit. Then will be onto the kerbs and walls and white paint lines etc.

Once these are in place I will be sharing the track with you all for some early access testing, while things like buildings, props, and detailed texture work for the track take shape. So yeah, don't expect the first release to be entirely pretty, but it should be mostly functional.

Once this is wrapped, we'll be moving onto the Classic track, and the karting track, both of which will be getting the same level of attention as the classic track.

Once again, thanks to Butonwillow, Speedventures and BTM Simsport for the help in getting this project off of the ground. (literally in terms of Speedventures funding the drones!) I appreciate this is taking a bit of time, but the wait will totally be worth it :)

Thanks!
Ty