New Graphics - Blender ".blend" thread (Works In Progress)

dmh_mac · Post by **dmh_mac** » 23 May 2005 13:44

Like this?

+ forrest tile

Jeffrey · Post by **Jeffrey** » 23 May 2005 14:01

WOOA allot of things have been made since the last time I went to this forum. This lumbermill looks just great!

Dextro · Post by **Dextro** » 23 May 2005 15:09

The lumbermill is just amazing even though that sawdust is a bit unrealistic, it looks like someone spraid something over the picture

About the trees: they look nice but aren't they a bit too big?

MeusH · Post by **MeusH** » 23 May 2005 20:00

It is really great, altought forst should be densier and sawdust shouldn't be so patternish

Alltaken · Post by **Alltaken** » 23 May 2005 20:55

oh wow, that is great.

i do love the trees

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i can imagine trains traveling through forests now.

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ThorRune · Post by **ThorRune** » 24 May 2005 07:23

Forest looks good, but i still dont like the sawdust. Wonderfull work tho though!

Korenn · Post by **Korenn** » 24 May 2005 13:39

ThorRune wrote:Forest looks good, but i still dont like the sawdust. Wonderfull work tho though!

"tho though" ?

Post by **peter1138** » 24 May 2005 14:11

The forest looks nice when scaled down. Only one r in forest, btw...

dmh_mac · Post by **dmh_mac** » 24 May 2005 14:13

peter1138 wrote:Only one r in forest, btw...

Yeah I know, I just keep putting 2 somehow.

ThorRune · Post by **ThorRune** » 25 May 2005 06:45

The sad thing is, though more realistic, the new GFX engine apperantly will be a lot darker, with dark green grass versus old gfx engines light green, and such. Wont that posibilly make the game have a "sader" mood/look?

Alltaken · Post by **Alltaken** » 25 May 2005 08:30

ThorRune wrote:The sad thing is, though more realistic, the new GFX engine apperantly will be a lot darker, with dark green grass versus old gfx engines light green, and such. Wont that posibilly make the game have a "sader" mood/look?

where do you guys get these assumptions from?

NOTHING is finalised untill the sprites are shipped as packaged files. and one thing which will not be changing (for the standard GFX) is the grass colour.

however since there will be the possibility of as many climate types as anyone wants, each player can make the grass colour what ever colour they want. they can even replace it with ice.... (especially since things like buildings will have alpha for grassed areas, things like deserts can be built on without any building emposing its ground colour onto it.)

i just find it funny that a lot of opposition to the project is founded on bad information.

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ThorRune · Post by **ThorRune** » 25 May 2005 12:00

I'm not opposing the project, i love it. I got the information only from schreenshots i've seen, especially in your gallery.

Edit:

OK, not darker, but something about it is just... Gloomier

Raven · Post by **Raven** » 25 May 2005 13:51

if you can't help, at least don't disturb!

BTW, i've found no compatibility between blender and 3ds, that makes things harder! I recall Sellu used 3ds.
We should make a standard for images, colours etc, not a limited pallete, but Hub and saturation info for common colours used on vehicles (steamer black, mack truck red, ....)

Sellu · Post by **Sellu** » 25 May 2005 14:30

I think the graphics engine rules should be designed so that everyone could do addon stuff with any renderer available. Maybe there should be some calibration page how to make any software to produce uniform looking sprites compared to blender renderings.

Jeffrey · Post by **Jeffrey** » 25 May 2005 14:33

that would be very helpfull because i'm using anim8or for "ages" and i have no time to learn blender.

EDIT the anim8or problem is probably solved because i found a program called AniVsObj that converts anim8or files to the obj files that blenders uses. Without losing textures and colors ( if it works) the only problem is that i can't run this program because it works only on a win98 not on winXP

Alltaken · Post by **Alltaken** » 25 May 2005 23:26

ThorRune, note that that colouring is infact "brighter" than what exists now. it needs to be a few shades darker to meet the TTD colour pallet. perhaps your eyes are fooling you.

Maybe there should be some calibration page how to make any software to produce uniform looking sprites compared to blender renderings.

i agree 100%

infact blender can learn from the other artiss using other software. perhaps its not other artists trying to emulate blenders lighting, but it could be the other way around (or a mixture)

i've found no compatibility between blender and 3ds

well blender does have an importer/exporter script for 3Ds, i am not sure of the exact things it will convert, it may not do materials all that well.

but Hub and saturation info for common colours used on vehicles (steamer black, mack truck red, ....)

we shoudl definatly have a list of common ones of these.

Colours
Material types (the amount of glossiness, i.e. metal, plastic)
textures (bumpiness, things like concrete, roads, dirt...)

basicly a big list of shaders we want to be available in all software used. (and the artists are responsible for emulating these as closely as possible to each other in their respective packages and then sharing the files)

concrete
grass
desert
ashfelt
corrugated iron roof
metal.... .... ....

the list would be huge.

also a set of "common" objects, perhaps 20 various shaped and sized rocks to place on things. trees....

so that within different sets, and different areas we are not having things made that do not differ wildly.

i for one am a fan of having a set of treets (many many trees) that artists just pull into their own files, so that we don't have one type of tree design in one place and another in another place. (i.e. realistic, vs cartoon trees)

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dmh_mac · Post by **dmh_mac** » 18 Jul 2005 14:50

New building rendered with ambient occlusion.

Need new camera.blend for proper screensize.

Purno · Post by **Purno** » 18 Jul 2005 15:27

OMG

That looks awesome

Arsenal · Post by **Arsenal** » 18 Jul 2005 15:33

That is truly fantastic!

mic006fr · Post by **mic006fr** » 18 Jul 2005 18:30

You are very gifted !!!!

You are in art school ?

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