Heads Up Display Research

Need for speed: Hot Pursuit is a pretty good reference in this case.  As you can see in the video that I posted above.  HUD it has includes most of information that we need, such as :

Speedometer

Tachometer

Gear Indicator

Lap Time

Best Time

Vehicle Health

Like most of racing games does, I would like to place the tachometer & speedometer on the lower right corner of the screen with the vehicle health besides it.  Gear indicator will be located in the tachometer display.  Other info that need to be show on the screen will mostly be placed on the top right corner.

The car that I modeled is BMW E92 M3, so I decide to make a real tachometer and speedometer display like the real car has on its dashboard.

Here is the first pass:

Modify Car - BMW M3 Final Version

Modify Car Preview - M3

Crossing Fire Zone!!! Resubmit Explosive Barrel Project

Explosive Barrel For Racing Level

The Asset of Barrel is made by Maya, and the textures are developed in Substance.

Blue Print of this explosive barrel.

How it looks in UE4

Barrel Design for Racing Level

Concept：

My level is in realistic, so the barrel that I design is also in realistic. The sketch that I posted above shows the basic shape of the barrel that I am going to create, but I will also put some special textures and decals on it, because I am trying to give it more characteristics.

Draft 1:

There is a barrel that I created for testing.

Racetrack Intro Sequences Analysis

The reference that I selected is from a video that recorded by myself when I was playing the Need for Speed Rivals.  Racetrack intro sequences in this game is unique.  I really like how they camera slowly moves to the player's car first, then turns angle to looks backwards.  The camera follows other racers cars until they pass the player's car quickly.  Than the camera change back to the play view to start the game.  The whole intro sequence and sound effect which is heart beating sound in this case really make players excited and nervous.  It is a really good one.