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Raichase · Post by **Raichase** » 15 Mar 2003 05:31

That looks really impressive. Perhaps they might want to use it?

Hellfire · Post by **Hellfire** » 15 Mar 2003 10:25

Hey! Another lightwave user! Nice job. Maybe you can add some colour to the factory? (select polygons and press 'Q')

rein · Post by **rein** » 15 Mar 2003 12:05

just Great!
maybe the less number of polys would be welcome, but if we use objects Level Of Detail, 300 will be just right for the closer zooms !

Hellfire · Post by **Hellfire** » 15 Mar 2003 12:19

Did I mention that about a year ago, I made an import library for Lightwave's .LWO files?

ken52787 · Post by **ken52787** » 15 Mar 2003 14:42

Hellfire, you a lightwave user too? I will color it, and perhaps even texture it, and try to get it down to a reasonable amount of polys.

Also, are we improving on TTD designs, or are we tryin to redesign everything to distance TT2 from TTD?

Arathorn · Post by **Arathorn** » 15 Mar 2003 18:28

Well I think some buildings from TTD back would be nice, but also lots of new buildings.

Hellfire · Post by **Hellfire** » 15 Mar 2003 18:57

ken52787 wrote:Hellfire, you a lightwave user too? I will color it, and perhaps even texture it, and try to get it down to a reasonable amount of polys.

Yes, I use lightwave too. In my opinion, it is by far the best 3D modeller I've ever used.

Just narrow the chimneys down to about 8-sided cylinders, then it should be allright, I think.

Also, are we improving on TTD designs, or are we tryin to redesign everything to distance TT2 from TTD?

Umm... I don't know actually... I think that because of the expandability of the game, both options are possible.

ken52787 · Post by **ken52787** » 15 Mar 2003 19:26

Yea, chimneys are the poly-hogs. I'm not sure about the sides, but right now I think they're like 16 (or thereabouts), then I have tops beveled in (another 16), and they go down in (another 16), so topviews also look correct.

Also, since u know lightwave, perhaps u can help me. This is my first time texturing, and this has been bugging me. I am doing the sides of the buildings, and keep each poly a different file. When I import them, the look like crap, but what really gets me is that when they connect, the look different (not size wise, i can fix that), but even tho they are like exactly same "grain wise", they get 'blurred' differently, and look uneven. I am saving as .png files and use about 100pixels per foot (square on grid, my factory is way out of proportion). Do you know what I'm doing wrong.

Hyronymus · Post by **Hyronymus** » 15 Mar 2003 19:39

Ken, about the polygons: isn't there a tool to add them to one block. I don't know if you are familiar with AutoCAD, but you can do something like that with AutoCAD. Also, Lightwave looks like all other 3D renderers I know off (Maya, 3D Studio MAX) and I think they have such option too.

ken52787 · Post by **ken52787** » 15 Mar 2003 20:18

Sorry, but I'm not quite sure what u mean by 'adding them to one block.' Lightwave probably does have what your talking about if autocad does, but I'm not sure what it is exactly. Also, I am not familiar with autocad, sorry if that makes things harder

Hyronymus · Post by **Hyronymus** » 16 Mar 2003 19:01

Makes it a bit harder but don't feel sorry. In AutoCAD you can combine different polygons to one big polygon if they share at least one mutual point in space. But since yesterday, I wonder how much memory that would save. I hope this is clearer to you now!

Hellfire · Post by **Hellfire** » 16 Mar 2003 20:43

Yes, Lightwave can do that too. Shift-Z if I'm not mistaken...

ken52787 · Post by **ken52787** » 16 Mar 2003 20:44

Oh yea, I get your drift now. I'll try it, but I don't think it'll do much. Don't worry folks, this is just a practice model for me, I'll figure thing out on my own.

ken52787 · Post by **ken52787** » 21 Mar 2003 23:04

Check it out. I got bored, so I modeled Rein's avatar. Again, this is untextured, but this time I added color. This is 280 polys.

Arathorn · Post by **Arathorn** » 21 Mar 2003 23:06

Looks very good! And this only after some bored trying.

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 21 Mar 2003 23:08

... maybe colors are to monocolor ... but looks great .... REIN HERE !! Take a look !!

Lilman424 · Post by **Lilman424** » 21 Mar 2003 23:09

niiice, so was the factory......BTW, does anyone have like a tutorial for Lightwave? it's confusing...

ken52787 · Post by **ken52787** » 21 Mar 2003 23:13

lilman, go to http://www.lightwave3d.com. Offical tutorials, they got me started.

Lilman424 · Post by **Lilman424** » 22 Mar 2003 01:02

I'mdoing the cathedral roof tutorial, And i can't select the individual points at the bottom of the disc, just the entire polygon.......help?!

ken52787 · Post by **ken52787** » 22 Mar 2003 01:04

You're in the wrong mode. At the bottom of the screen, there should be three buttons (Point, polygon, volume). Press Point, or press space until it reaches point.

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