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This is something I wanted to achieve as a lot of the newer circuits sort of feel stadium-esque, where you never really feel too far away from the pit building. At the lower end of the circuit you feel so far away from the pit building, a bit isolated.

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Race start of SIC performed by yours trulyĪs you can see, the circuit doesn’t offer fantastic elevation changes as one might see in Spa-Francochamps, but what I really enjoy about the circuit is that it sort of takes the driver on a journey. Pay no attention to the skill of the driver (me) as I am not fantastic!įlaying Lap of SIC performed by yours truly The first is a ‘hot lap’ of me from start to finish, while the other is a race start with AI opponents demonstrating the effectiveness of the circuit width in that area. Truth be told, seeing it just like this is incredibly exciting for me!Ĭircuit layout of the Sunbury International Circuit inclusing ripply strips and run off areas.Īs alluded to earlier, here are some circuit prototype video recordings of me driving around the circuit.

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The original design had largely constant radii corners leading into straights, however with BTB and rFactor I was able to experience what the circuit was like, and how the circuit characteristics were and how to enhance it.īelow is the latest graphical look at the circuit, complete with red/white ripple strips, pit building, run off areas and starting grid. It also allowed my to fine tune some corners and make them more interesting. Turn 1 and 3 became a bit looser, Turn 5 opened up and Turn 18 was brought much more closer to the preceding section. My decision to use this as a tool to develop the circuit was incredibly justified in that immediately there were modifications to be made. I have taken some videos of me driving around it, but more on that a little later. To see what I had only seen as lines on a page be transformed into a virtual but usable world was amazing. To see the circuit in the game, with the right elevations, circuit widths, corner sizes, it is a real pleasure to see and experience.

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I then used a racing simulator game called rFactor so that I could actually drive the circuit. I modelled the initial circuit layout in a program called Bob’s Track Builder which a circuit-modelling specific program that is very powerful. So I entered the realm of racing simulation gaming. However I thought about it and felt I needed to ‘drive’ the circuit before I signed off on the layout in order to get a feel of the flow and the characteristics of the circuit. Since last time, I initially concentrated on the conceptual design of the main grandstand and pit building, feeling that the circuit layout was fairly finalised. I think it has a better ring to it! The reason for this is that the circuit will be located close to the town of Sunbury, near the outskirts of Melbourne metropolitan area. More and more these day I find myself referring to the circuit as the Sunbury International Circuit instead of, say, the Australian International Motorsport Centre, for example.

I have taken some big strides with regard to the design of the Sunbury International Circuit. The founder of SpeedScenes is currently trying to sort out licensing issues, but is hoping to have the mats on sale very shortly! I would love to be able to show everyone what it looks like because it is really, super dooper cool! SIC – SUNBURY INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT

Adults I am sure will love it as well, seeing real life circuits portrayed on a play mat, which usually contain a hodge-podge of roads, intersections, racing roads etc. This has meant that some minor revisions have been made to the mat, but it still looks incredible and kids will absolutely love. In addition, this was done as it was found that the smaller details on the original design were not coming out in the manufactured mat, which is basically a carpet. The original design was delivered in early April, however after a post-prototype manufacture review, it was decided that the mat would be revised to make it more child-friendly. In any case, here’s a round up of what I have been working on in the last 2 months! SPEEDSCENES Hopefully this will ease up soon and I can concentrate a bit more on my design work. Truth be told though I have had a very busy couple of months at my normal job, which to a degree has effected my design work getting to work early, staying back late, having it on my mind etc. I have been slowly chipping away at my projects, starting new ones, finishing much enjoyed ones, doing a fair bit of admin work ( yaaaay) and at some stage I even went to my 9-5 job. So I have been hard at work (at most times, I swear) over the past couple of months on StylePixelStudios stuff.