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

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 28 Sep 2006 16:07

Once the storage system is up, we could ask Crazy Vaclav if he could upload his models. (When he has the time). That way all that work wouldn't have been for nothing.

ZxBiohazardZx · Post by **ZxBiohazardZx** » 28 Sep 2006 19:52

Ben_Robbins_ wrote:I spoke to egladil yesterday and he said that he could do the nessesery codeing (so that the graphics replacing the original ones could be displayed) in ''2 weeks''. I recon a month is a nice safe target to get the original set buildings all in there completed built state from at least 1 angle, and have all the viecles (asuming crazy comes back...!?)

The progress in here has slowed down a lot recently, (myself to blame also). I recon now there is a date, that everyone should try to get going again.

Sellu: You were awaiting some report on the coding side of it. Well I'm just passing on the message, but its some sort of target at least.

There are quite a few people that were very active at the start of this topic such as dmh_mac, dylan.farrow, burschik, meusH, gorre, StefSybo Berberjesus (later on) etc. Quite a few people have shown that they have the ability to model, but havnt stuck at it, so it would be cool to see some finished models from Killer 11, Cryingcorvus, sunnyboy, fieldmouse, prometeusz, biohazard etcetc. Basically theres many people around. Crazy should get his arse back in here also...preferably with all his graphics...<cracks whip>.

I'm just going to work down the building list in the wiki from top to bottom. If they have wip on them, but havnt been touched for ages and ages, then i think someone else should start. I'm making a start on the white cinima/theator building therefore. processor(POL) hasnt responded on the wiki as far as I no, so I recon they need to be redone. (bit blunt, but yeah).

Anyway, hope to see some new graphics shortly!

i do still read the thread but i have 1 big problem: im stuck with my Depot and i really dont get textures and whatever right, ill upload the plain blenders soon so someone can put some textures on them and maybe ill try to make it better after seeing that

aka you will hear more soon....

ZxBiohazardZx · Post by **ZxBiohazardZx** » 28 Sep 2006 20:15

ok here i got my train depot (that is on this PC)

just check it on your own pc and tell me about what can be better (i just dont see it)

EDIT: cannot upload .blend (i put .txt behind it but my windows XP wont accept to change it:p)

ZxBiohazardZx · Post by **ZxBiohazardZx** » 28 Sep 2006 20:29

ok this time i could edit this train-depot:

Alltaken · Post by **Alltaken** » 29 Sep 2006 09:42

yeah a nice intermediate 64 pixel wide, replacement for current graphics would be great.

i support it whole heartedly

Field-Mouse · Post by **Field-Mouse** » 30 Sep 2006 10:02

I too need to learn texturing in blender

I have a model that pretty much has a finished mehs, but its in XSI format and i cant get the textures to export properly so i need to learn blenders texture stuff.. thats why my model has been on-hold for about.. ehm.. lets see.. 4 months perhaps? Anyways, does anyone have a good tutorial or something to use?, I found a few but the were all crap and didnt match my version at all!

Silky · Post by **Silky** » 23 Oct 2006 17:32

Another model. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, due to enter production next year. Had a little trouble with UV mapping to subsurfaces, so the window spacing is a little funny. Not sure how to correct it.

Pilatus · Post by **Pilatus** » 23 Oct 2006 21:53

looking good

Field-Mouse · Post by **Field-Mouse** » 24 Oct 2006 16:01

Looking nice, but it seems very very bright?

Gorre · Post by **Gorre** » 24 Oct 2006 19:07

Shape is the most important thing, stuff like lights can be done later and with easy.

Silky · Post by **Silky** » 24 Oct 2006 19:25

Yes. I hadn't yet discovered the diffuse reflection slider...

Gorre · Post by **Gorre** » 24 Oct 2006 19:40

Silky wrote:Yes. I hadn't yet discovered the diffuse reflection slider...

Just, does it use your own lighting setup or is it made with of these Alltaken did?

(Im kinda unable to make a clickable hyperlink while brackets are in that URL)

Silky · Post by **Silky** » 24 Oct 2006 19:56

It's got the standard light setup linked to on the wiki. All I changed was the diffuse reflection of all the materials from 0.8 to 0.5.

Gorre · Post by **Gorre** » 24 Oct 2006 20:08

Well, your model is very nice, of course, but, (my opinion) changing light settings which is common for dozens of other models is not very standard at all, so making your materials little bit darked should provide the same result.

Silky · Post by **Silky** » 24 Oct 2006 20:15

Yes, thats what I did. The parameter is specific to each material and changes the amount of light reflected from a light source by the material. It has the same effect as reducing the brightness of the material colour. (Assuming the ambient reflection is changed as well)

EDIT: Now the ambient & diffuse (& reflection) values add up to 1. Which means that the material is realistic. Previously they added up to 1.6. Which meant that the materials were technically emitting light.

Invisble · Post by **Invisble** » 24 Oct 2006 20:29

the aircraft looks very nice, but I am not sure if it is a trick of the perspective/light or the way it is drawn, but the wings seem to curve up far too much even for standard flight.

Silky · Post by **Silky** » 24 Oct 2006 20:34

They rake back a lot as well. I copied the profile from this image.

http://www.linternaute.com/savoir/grand ... ages/1.jpg
Although they were a lot flatter on the schematics I was using. I assume that they are supposed to bend that much in flight.

Invisble · Post by **Invisble** » 24 Oct 2006 20:48

wow just been looking at some images of the dreamliner through google search, and it does seem the wings do go back that far, and with that much curveture upwards.

Though I can see the advantages in fuel economy and stability, but man that must make maintence a nightmare, as well as putting a huge amount of stress on the wing joints.

I wonder if the wings not seperate entities at all, but are instead a single wing onto which the body is attached??

Brianetta · Post by **Brianetta** » 25 Oct 2006 08:37

Invisble wrote:...as well as putting a huge amount of stress on the wing joints.

Surely the case with every aeroplane? The wings hang off the fuselage while stationary on the ground, and the fuselage hangs off the wing whilst in flight.

Field-Mouse · Post by **Field-Mouse** » 25 Oct 2006 17:00

Wow! It looks A LOT better when u darkened it down a bit, now I can see the shape of it

Looks really futuristic somehow, which is great, a REAL plane that looks futuristic in real life

Gonna be nice to se the plane ingame with all the rotations!
Good work!! I dont really have much more to say, I have been looking at some google images of the plane and I cant come up with anything u´ve done wrong

In my eyes your model is very realistic, using the google images as reference.

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