Breunor Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 Your current design looks good IMO, better than having missile tubes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breunor Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 I checked out the access lift and standard door in Milkshape, the only thing I see is setting the scale and positioning of them Drewid. This is a screenshot of both imported, the red circle is the entire access lift selected. The larger wireframe is the doorway. The lift mechanism is positioned below the main access lift, does that need to be moved up and positioned flush with the main flooring? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breunor Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 I've scaled the facility to about 24 meters across here. I raised the center platform into a partially elevated position, and moved the door into place. The corridor connection is almost positioned off of one of the doorways as well, it was reduced in size to fit. One thing I'm curious about is how the engine will handle each model's grouping names and material names. For example, if every model has "material 1", "material 2", etc. will that make any difference? This was brought up a while back and might still be irrelevent. But perhaps each group name in the model should include a prefix scheme like we discussed a while back just in case? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest drewid Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 Yes you're right about the material names, my bad. I think I missed a few. I'll be doing the texturing in Maya and then sorting names on the conversion next time. Maya handles its materials in a different way than the Max multisubobject malarky. I'll see how it works on the conversion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikker Posted July 11, 2003 Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 OK Vaaish, i can see it is not blocking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted July 13, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2003 ok here is the blaster/fuision ball defense module major diferances are the generators replacing the ordinance delivery system and the new cannon thanks to Mikker. (made a few changes.) From here out the only differance will be the turret in the middle and for stuff like plasma and laser I'll try to rearance it to make it a little more obviously different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Vaaish Posted July 13, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2003 and the last Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippyjon Posted July 13, 2003 Report Share Posted July 13, 2003 oooo, s'good... not much else to say about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest drewid Posted July 13, 2003 Report Share Posted July 13, 2003 Does the platform that the launcher is stood on raise up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted July 13, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2003 @drewid: no It is probably never going to move so there was no reason to actually burn the polys on making the platform a separate obj. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breunor Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 In reference to the raising platforms: will we ever see them actually moving anyways? What I imagined was that we'd assume they had platforms that would lift them to the surface, but we wouldn't see it happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest drewid Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 hokay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breunor Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 Just my opinion, but then we don't have to model those parts and save on polys as well. On the other hand, if they're included we could eventually animate them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted July 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2003 Bruneor: if poly contraints allow it once we get everything in we can go back and add in the separate lifts. If there are no other comments about this modules I'll move on to the remaining defense modules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breunor Posted July 15, 2003 Report Share Posted July 15, 2003 Vaaish, can you zip up the facilities done so far and post them here? I'll upload them to the server and link them via the assetlist. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jim69 Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 For the workshop: I believe Drewid is doing the textures, but whoever is doing them. This is a texture that could be used for the construction table. The reason I post it is because machined table tops that are truely flat ( Grade A for anyone who is interested ) leave a specific machine mark on them that looks very simular to this, the ones I have seen are a little darker but that is probably just the metal used. The reason it is important is to test to see if a metal piece is bowed if flat and since the pattern is so specific it would be good to have it in there. Obviously the texture would need to be modiyed to be tilable etc. but here it is in it's raw state: [img]http://www.webbied.com/3dtronic/textures02/fulltextures/DSC02177.JPG[/img] ( sorry about size, any way of modifying the size in the IMG tag? ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breunor Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 Hey Jim and anybody else who has them, once you have a texture that tiles well, let me know and I'll add it into the assetlist. I'll be adding a bunch I've got soon, and others will have easy access then. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viper550 Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 I made some models for the Lab.But before i make the zip files i want you to tell me what you think.Anything to change or to improve? I just hope you like them. Robotic Arm [img]http://www.angelfire.com/movies/alienshive/robot.jpg[/img] Microscope [img]http://www.angelfire.com/movies/alienshive/micro.jpg[/img] Testing tubes [img]http://www.angelfire.com/movies/alienshive/tubes.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breunor Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 Those items look really good. The typical questions would include What's the polycount for each item, How about texture size? The latter is more a limiting factor from what I understand. Looking nice though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted March 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 could you please attach the images instead of posting them to your own webhost. More often than not these things don't show up unless you attach to the post. Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viper550 Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 All the textures for all the models are 256x256. As for the polycount microscope 233 polygons robotic arm 185 polygons testing tubes 358 polygons This is the best i can.The microscope and the testing tubes have many cylindrical parts and thats why they use more polys. Anyway if you like them i will make attachments of the .zip files Vaaish:Ok no problem.From now on i will make attachments of the pics i post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted March 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 for the distance they will be viewed from you could probably get away with making the round segments out of fewer polys. just an idea though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt. Boxershorts Posted March 4, 2004 Report Share Posted March 4, 2004 (edited) Could the test tubes just be done as a brick with a texture? It seems that they'd be pretty small in the battlescape (since the average testtube in only a couple inches long). The Captain edit: typos Edited March 4, 2004 by Cpt. Boxershorts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest drewid Posted March 4, 2004 Report Share Posted March 4, 2004 nice stuff. Things to do hmmmmm.... The rails that the crane is hanging from could be a lot thicker I think. They don't look strong enought to take much load to my eye. theres no reason why they couldn't be square, which would also cut down polys, The amount of detail is very high, might be too high for the battlescape, but don't chuck these meshes out altogether, they might easily be usable in the X-Net (for research results maybe) or in cut scenes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viper550 Posted March 5, 2004 Report Share Posted March 5, 2004 Here are the .zip files. microscope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viper550 Posted March 5, 2004 Report Share Posted March 5, 2004 Robotic arm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viper550 Posted March 5, 2004 Report Share Posted March 5, 2004 testing tubes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red knight Posted March 6, 2004 Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 Can you do a less texture intensive version for battlescape? 256x256 textures is just too much for such small items as testing tubes. Greetings Red Knight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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