Rockingham Motor Speedway Laser Scanning
Rockingham Motor Speedway Racing Circuit is located in Corby, Northamptonshire. It has a total of 13 circuit configurations, which allows for a multitude of racing, from touring cars to motorcycles to rally cars. It also has a 1.48 mile American-style banked oval circuit, which is one of only two oval speedway circuits in Europe, however, Rockingham is the fastest!
Live for Speed (LFS) is a popular online simulator racing game developed by a small team who wanted to provide a realistic racing experience. They were given the opportunity to access Rockingham and permission to develop it for LFS, which would result in the first real race track for the game. Wanting to recreate an accurate version of the real thing, they realised that laser scanning was the best method and approached APR Services for help.
Live for Speed (LFS) is a popular online simulator racing game developed by a small team who wanted to provide a realistic racing experience. They were given the opportunity to access Rockingham and permission to develop it for LFS, which would result in the first real race track for the game. Wanting to recreate an accurate version of the real thing, they realised that laser scanning was the best method and approached APR Services for help.
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Objective
A detailed set of Laser Scan data was required for Live For Speed to develop Rockingham Race Track for their online racing simulator. Services Provided 3D Laser Scanning was undertaken using a RIEGL laser scanner. With an operating range of up to 600 metres, the scanner was roof mounted to a vehicle using the shockmount allowing scanning from around 50m intervals around both the main track and the inner track. APR Laser Scan Visualisation of Rockingham Motor Speedway
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Deliverables
The point cloud data was fully combined into a single set of data at a high accuracy of 2cm. This was provided to LFS who were then able to import it into their track editor and develop for their online simulator game. 
Key Successes
LFS were very happy with APR's Laser Scanning service and stated "we were impressed by their systems, including the fact that the 3D point clouds can also have a colour, created by matching the scanning data with a photograph. We were pleased to ask APR to obtain and process the data". Rockingham Speedway will be available on phase S3 of Live for Speed. For further info on our Laser Scanning Services please click here To contact us please click here |
