leenx wrote:There's a "texture pack" to the designers had all the same basic textures? I think this will speed up the work in some way... (and make it all in one standard)
A texture pack "will" be a requirement for this project to suceed. but right now its not such a big deal (since we can adapt textures a bit later)
what we need to set up is a Wiki page with a file for each texture on it. then every month or so we get all the textures and put them into one file, as textures get added we make another file the next month....
yes we do need standards though. if someone wants to take this responsibility on then it would be grea.t its on my todo list currently, but that list is soooo damn long that i cannot do it any time soon.
some of the main things we need to cement in standards are.
Concrete (dmh_macs looks ok)
Grass
tree leaves (a number of different colour schemes ranging all thinkable colours)
water
glass for building windows. (should include an Env map i think)
tiled rooves, (many colours, and textures)
tiled ground
brick work (many colours and potentially patterns)
road surfaces 2-4 different things, concrete, dark ashfelt, light ashfelt, gravel.
coal
grain...
it is a massive massive task, and the texture library will grow over time. basicly it will need someone to submitt somthing to the library, that texture to be "approved" by a few people (who may make alterations to it) then finalised before being put into the pack.
i don't think the texture pack should limit the options people have, but i do think it should get rid of similar.../multiples of certain textures. i.e. lots of different road surfaces with none of them matching up....
modeling is still a major task though, texturing can always be done later. (once we actually have a file format for the GFX)
I'd like to take light from that building, but appending doesn't work - I'm trying to add lamps as "objects" and as "lamps".
I also tried to take a closer look at some of the building's meshes, but seems all of them are grouped together and seems there is no way to split it again (but I'm sure there is).
Meush download the "official lighting setup" don't take lights from another building that would be very very wrong
we have offical places to get certain things, Lighting is definatly one of those things that needs to be kept 100% official.
when appending any object, always choose from the "objects" sub category in the append menu. then choose all the objects named "lamp.***" if you go to the apend/lamps menu you will only append lamp data, not the actual object.
lighting setup is available from the wiki.
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