Model Requests? (or help)

fhko · Post by **fhko** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 5:57 pm

I'll see about replacing the toy robot with a box in a little bit...

For now, I offer you this pretty little flower...Careful, it's hot.

Fire Flower and Texture

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:25 pm

heh, nice

fhko · Post by **fhko** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:12 am

By bong's request...a quick little alteration to the toysmasher...

Box Smasher and Texture

You'll have to actually paint in the texture for the box part...

fhko · Post by **fhko** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:12 am

Fruit Tree
Texture or Small Texture

Unfortunately the rendering of the blue-255-ness tends to still leave a black outline around the leaves and the model planes themselves when it is seen in-game...looks like the texture filtering isn't working...even with it on the highest setting it still looks worse than in the converter...

Perhaps an improvement to the system is in order fooli?

Post by **Fooli** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 8:30 am

Indeed. I think it might be a bug. From memory, you used to be able to get around this by using nomip in the texture filename. So something like fruittree_nomip.bmp. But last time I looked at this I couldn't get it to work.

Other options are different file formats (use targas, for example) but I just find that stuff very... random in PSP. Probably a Photoshop job (with proper knowledge of how texture formats work). I gave up in the end :)
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fhko · Post by **fhko** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:35 am

There has to be a quick way to create a face between three pre-existing vertices...I just can't find it and the lousy cap-holes modifier always tries to create faces connecting vertices at the opposite ends of the model...

Currently I'm having to create my own faces and weld them into place...at this rate It will take a couple days...

edit: Nevermind...I figured it out three seconds after posting...

fhko · Post by **fhko** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:30 am

My third attempt at ship modeling...maybe some sort of advanced shuttle craft (possibly a future intermediate level ship?)...in the process of UVmapping currently so transparentness is temporary.

fhko · Post by **fhko** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 12:18 am

Some day I will make a perfect model...but today is not that day...

I was so close to it...but the lousy inverted faces bug got me...and I can't fix the problem without messing up the texturing ('flip normal' does exactly what it says). Luckily it isn't readily noticeable as an error unless you're looking closely.

I also have run out of ideas on how to texture it...if someone would like to take up where I left off they are welcome to it (might want to un-negative the texture first...but up to you).

Advanced Shuttle and Texture

Jayecifer · Post by **Jayecifer** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:56 am

It's good to see you using black as the textures background. Black is way easier on the eyes. However I suggest that with a vehicle or object with an overall color it only seems logical to set the background to the base color of the object.

lazyredhead · Post by **lazyredhead** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:45 pm

make me a deathstar model and texture i can use to replace my cargo ship model

fhko · Post by **fhko** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 7:58 pm

On the low-poly-count end of the spectrum I have a new building to add to my collection.

Tanner's Hut and Texture

fhko · Post by **fhko** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:10 am

Well it took me until 5 am to finish up this little model collection but I'm quite happy with the results...

All three models use the same texture which is very handy (although slightly difficult to do).

I'll upload them once I get them uniformly scaled (which is after I get some sleep).

fhko · Post by **fhko** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:09 pm

As promised my wooden wall models...

Straight Wall
Outside Corner
Inside Corner

Texture and Small Texture (a lower quality version of texture)

This is an example of the intended layout of the buildings. The current models are scaled so they fit snuggly together when placed on the corners of the grid on a map with the 'Landscape Scale' setting at 650.

flametard · Post by **flametard** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:00 pm

that axe and throwing axe you gave me work brilliantly!!!

fhko · Post by **fhko** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:42 pm

I'm pleased to hear that.

fhko · Post by **fhko** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 5:24 pm

Sticking with my primitive age models, I have a new vehicle for my collection. Perhaps an alternative to the Flintstonemobile.

Wood Cart and Texture

I can't seem to find a good setting for having a single animated wheel (needs looking into?), so the there's some obvious overlapping for the wheels.

Post by **Fooli** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:09 pm

Single wheel vehicles have to be fudged at the moment using bike mode, or by splitting the wheel model into two (cut it down the middle of the axle, for example) and adding one half to each side.

Btw, the cart is backwards, and the wheels rotate backwards :)

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fhko · Post by **fhko** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:26 pm

The model behaves fine for me...it's not backwards for me. I even downloaded it and applied it to my world...not sure what your issue is.

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:31 pm

really it would depend on the perspective your looking at it from.

it could be pulled, and thus move handles first, or pushed, and thus move with handles in the back.

fhko · Post by **fhko** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:37 am

it was my intention that it be pulled...but I suppose pushing it might work...

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This animation took me a really long to put together. For some reason tempest was trying to spite me. It wouldn't export correctly from the main gmax scene so I had to save each frame out of gmax and then convert each one through...not fun...

Mystic Hill and Texture

Edit: for anyone not wanting to get a seizure, I made a non-blinking version: Safe Mystic Hill