Redoran Buildings Progress Thread (2)

[Caligula Superfly]

Alright, sounds good! :yes:

[raggidman]

Congrats :goodjob: on your successful graduation CS (how do I know you succeeded? ) and do not neglect the next step in your education - make a few entries to the Botany Books and you could have your doctorate in only a few hours, along with Professor KuKulzA and Remux Dreadfire, who have compressed years of furious study and dedication into a few hours graft to bypass all the tedium on the road to fame and fortune!

[Razorwing]

I checked out the screenshots now, and I think they look really nice :goodjob:

My only notes... *shuffles through his papers* ...is about the borders. I attached an image of the border areas I thought looked a little strange.

1. This border looks quite angular. Surely with a custom skin it would be possible to blur the corners a bit?
2. Just where the arrow is pointing it looks like the border texture is slightly broader than it is elsewhere along the border.
3. I think it would look much better if the ends were capped.

Oh, tibmaker? Nah, forget about him. I don't think he'll ever contribute anything to the team.

I've imported your house into the mod now, but will hold off any eventual alphas as I get the impression you are still working on this skin. But I would be much obligued for a copy of the untextured door model, porch model, and the remaining building models with finalized geometric boundaries so I can begin to set up the district, which I'm very anxious to get started on. TIA, and keep up the good work

[Axen]

Originally posted by Razorwing
Oh, tibmaker? Nah, forget about him. I don't think he'll ever contribute anything to the team.

Where the hell did he go, anyway?

[Caligula Superfly]

Congrats Good job! on your successful graduation CS (how do I know you succeeded? )

Thank you!

and do not neglect the next step in your education - make a few entries to the Botany Books and you could have your doctorate in only a few hours, along with Professor KuKulzA and Remux Dreadfire, who have compressed years of furious study and dedication into a few hours graft to bypass all the tedium on the road to fame and fortune!

Ill keep that in mind. :lmao:

But I would be much obligued for a copy of the untextured door model, porch model, and the remaining building models with finalized geometric boundaries

If Zarf indeed messes with the actual shape of the model as he is skinning (though from the screenshots of the finished ones I see no significant changes) then part of that would fall on me getting the Uv mapping finished, but if not then here are all of my raw texturless files. The door is in the first hut design, and the stone steps are allready part of each building's model. They are easilly removed and separated into independant files, though you wouldn't need to do so to place the temps. Do what you want/need to I suppose.

BTW, didn't we do this already? ?( Was it concluded that Zarf changes the models to much for my untextured ones to be placed as temps? I know he cuts the models into pieces when he textures (must be a Max thing), but that doesn't change the shape. Do you do anything else to them Zarf?

(The Atttachment is in Winrar format. A zip was too big and something is wrong with 7z so I hope you can extract this. If not Ill just have to split things over 2 posts or upload it somewhere else.)

[Razorwing]

Originally posted by Axen

Originally posted by Razorwing
Oh, tibmaker? Nah, forget about him. I don't think he'll ever contribute anything to the team.

Where the hell did he go, anyway?

I dunno. Maybe he felt he didn't get enough recognition. His talent didn't quite measure up to his ego... I found his reply -here- rather amusing because his textures were bad and I'd rather use stuff from freeware sources on the net.

[Zarf]

I thought the first texture he showed us was great.

Now then, for the border angles... I can't fix those. It's a mesh thing, or I would have to go in and create new curved textures and new curved UVWs... neither of which I have the right tools for. I honestly think it would look better now than after I try to 'fix' it.

Also, Caligula's Geometric Boundaries would be exactly the same as mine. I split the meshes up, then I re-weld them. Sometimes vertices can be welded even before I split the mesh. Makes for tiney, inconceivable differences while nicely effecting the polycount.

I tried making a door yesterday and failed miserably. Expect the porch soon, though.

[Razorwing]

Originally posted by Zarf
Now then, for the border angles... I can't fix those. It's a mesh thing, or I would have to go in and create new curved textures and new curved UVWs... neither of which I have the right tools for. I honestly think it would look better now than after I try to 'fix' it.

Okidoki, no problem.

Originally posted by Zarf
I tried making a door yesterday and failed miserably. Expect the porch soon, though.

Aah, so there wasn't a door there from the start? Ok I'll make one (I've made quite a few door types in the past). Looking forward to the porch, thankyou.

Originally posted by Zarf
Also, Caligula's Geometric Boundaries would be exactly the same as mine. I split the meshes up, then I re-weld them. Sometimes vertices can be welded even before I split the mesh. Makes for tiney, inconceivable differences while nicely effecting the polycount.

Okay, point taken. I won't ask again.

[Caligula Superfly]

Also, Caligula's Geometric Boundaries would be exactly the same as mine. I split the meshes up, then I re-weld them. Sometimes vertices can be welded even before I split the mesh. Makes for tiney, inconceivable differences while nicely effecting the polycount.

Which means that the rar I posted contains exactly what you need to get going RW! Yay! :banana:

Aah, so there wasn't a door there from the start? Ok I'll make one (I've made quite a few door types in the past). Looking forward to the porch, thankyou.

The door model is completed, its on the standard hut model. Its in there with the rar I uploaded.

Now then, for the border angles... I can't fix those. It's a mesh thing, or I would have to go in and create new curved textures and new curved UVWs... neither of which I have the right tools for. I honestly think it would look better now than after I try to 'fix' it.

Have you tried going outside the lines on the UV mapping? Or is that one of the places where the texture has been split? (that would be a little tough to manage I agree )

[Razorwing]

Hmm... *thinks* hmm hmm... ok I'll "risk" it then, if you guys are confident the .obj models won't differ from the finalized models in any way whatsoever. Because if they do, and it turns out I have to realign 300 windows... I'll pour salt in your coffee :lmao: He he nah just kidding.

Ok cool I trust the door situation is very well taken care of. =)