Map Maker Models - The List [with links to concept images]

[thadiusofx3]

That's all for right now, I gotta go look for a part-time job lol
Getting paid by the project just isn't working right now.

I'll make some more when I get back.

[Karl G.]

Wow awesome!! Those are great.

The only problem I'm having so far is that I use back-face culling to remove vertices that are away from the camera, and not all of the faces are wound correctly. I can fix this by hand, though, so it shouldn't be too big of an issue. It's just a bit of a chore.

*An example of this: the top rim of the hp/mp pool has its normals facing downward, so when I render it the top rim goes away if you're looking from above.

[Karl G.]

By the way--tombstone2 doesn't load correctly.


Another example of the invisible thing:

The bottom of the blue column is covered correctly (it's black and filled in)
The bottom of the stone column is invisible, and lets you see up inside the column

[thadiusofx3]

I removed the bottom of the stone column to lower the number of faces.
Should it be a problem since it's the bottom?

Also when I looked at the log in blender I saw that one model didn't export correctly, but I didnt know which one, so I get that was the tombstone2.

The same thing that happened to the mp pool shouldn't happen to anything else, I just made that one in a weird way.


try this hp pool and see if it works right
http://poorserver.no-ip.org/ProjectVolu ... phppool2.x

[thadiusofx3]

Try tombstone2 again now, I think I fixed it.

Apparently I had a plane in there with 0 vertices somehow, but whatever.

[thadiusofx3]

Arch looks pretty good if I don't say so myself

[thadiusofx3]

Sign (obviously)

[thadiusofx3]

fence_connector


fence_link

[Ender]

damn thad, you are a 3d modeling fiend!

[Karl G.]

Those look great, Thad!

The mphp pool 2 doesn't load at all. I looked inside the file and the normals had a bunch of "-1.#IND00" values in there...dunno what that meant

[Karl G.]

All of the newest models work perfectly!

Thadius, could you change the fence_connector and fence_link models so that they don't have caps on the ends? They'll always be connected to something else so it's not necessary to have them.

[thadiusofx3]

yeah i can definitely change those quickly, but I'll have to do it in a few hours, bout to watch a movie


and the tombstone2 that didn't load the first time, It had the -1.#IND00 things in it too
I noticed them and thought that looked weird.

[thadiusofx3]

Ok fixed and reuploaded the fence models

Do I need to do something to the mp pool or can you use the old one and just fix the normals?

[thadiusofx3]

small and large ladders:

[thadiusofx3]

wall section and endpiece

[thadiusofx3]

20 down... 63+ to go


wall_section_pointy

[thadiusofx3]

stairs up and down

I couldn't find the wall texture for the stairs_down wall in the texture pack so i put that one there for a temp replacement

[thadiusofx3]

ok I'm done for tonight, more to follow tomorrow

[Karl G.]

The back side of wall_section and wall_section_pointy seem not to exist...O.o

The stairs are perfect!

I'd like you to see if you can fix the hpmp pool, because that way in the future you'll know what makes the model work correctly. Basically, the edges need to "face" upward, instead of downward. For example, in the stairs down model, the sides of the stairs are both directed inward exactly like they're supposed to be. Use this program to view the files for reference:


http://www.unseenstudios.com/volucris/d ... Viewer.exe

[thadiusofx3]

I know what I did wrong with it. When i was "forming it" I did some weird stuff with it, and originally the lip of the pool was on the inside of the structure, but I flipped it over and put it on the outside, and I guess it made the normals face down instead of up.

I'll see what I can do as soon as I'm finished with this wagon.

[thadiusofx3]

Lol I had directx viewer from the directx SDK, but It never worked, always gave me an unhandled exception error when I tried to load it.
This one works though.

[thadiusofx3]

Ok wagon is done but I'm not gonna post a picture case blender was being weird and wasn't showing some textures in the render (they are actually there, I made sure in the directx viewer)

I'll get started on fixing mp pool

[thadiusofx3]

well I had to completely redo the mana pool cause I couldn't see any practical way to fix it

here's the new one: (ignore the white, it's only in the blender render, not in the actual model)

[thadiusofx3]

I've just got one more model to do in the structures folder of the map maker concepts, 4obelisk_spike, which is probably the hardest one in that category.

Any categories/models that anyone would want me to complete first?


well

[logitech]

lookin good!