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nowhere near as cool ( ) but anyway here's my lot thus far:

Say hello to my new ship!!
What do you guys think!?
Oh, and credits to: Pandemic for the model,
Me for the Texture
Me for the cool orange guy in the ship.

Better! if a little lo-res for my taste, but nevermind.

and w00t at the orange guy!

Thanks! I love orange. Nice building btw, I bet it'll look good with a nice gray-ish texture.

- wireframe for whole building
- ingame view of barracks

most of the building is underground

Very nice! Maybe its just me but it looks like you have way too many polys on your ladders and the walls.

This is the progress on my mixed use building so far. Its starting to take shape but I'm struggling to give it some kind of character.

trainmaster611 wrote:Very nice! Maybe its just me but it looks like you have way too many polys on your ladders and the walls.

This is the progress on my mixed use building so far. Its starting to take shape but I'm struggling to give it some kind of character.

Hidden/Spoiler:

Before you get too in-depth (and not just you, I see several trying to use SketchUp), have you tried bringing this (even an untextured early version) into the game at all? I don't know that I've seen a single SketchUp building brought into the game - despite all the "we can do this" topics - and not to say that it can't be done, but it might be good to gauge the workload you'll have doing that.

It also helps to realize your model by walking around in it, even if it's not finished. That's a great way to find out where you need detail and where it can be omitted.

destructo_bot wrote:nowhere near as cool ( ) but anyway here's my lot thus far:

I don't know why exactly, but I really like it. Maybe it's the simplicity in contrast with most other buildings. Looks nice.

Maveritchell wrote:

trainmaster611 wrote:Very nice! Maybe its just me but it looks like you have way too many polys on your ladders and the walls.

This is the progress on my mixed use building so far. Its starting to take shape but I'm struggling to give it some kind of character.

Hidden/Spoiler:

Before you get too in-depth (and not just you, I see several trying to use SketchUp), have you tried bringing this (even an untextured early version) into the game at all? I don't know that I've seen a single SketchUp building brought into the game - despite all the "we can do this" topics - and not to say that it can't be done, but it might be good to gauge the workload you'll have doing that.

It also helps to realize your model by walking around in it, even if it's not finished. That's a great way to find out where you need detail and where it can be omitted.

I know I helped mswf test a model he made in sketchup that he exported to msh a while ago. It worked fine ingame (minus the fact that the building was about waist high). If there's any issues, it would be in the Sketchup --> XSI step.

[Edit]

Here's a picture ingame. I'd say I need to scale it up by about 1/3 and there's obviously some issues with the polygons facing the wrong way.

trainmaster611 wrote:[Edit]

Here's a picture ingame. I'd say I need to scale it up by about 1/3 and there's obviously some issues with the polygons facing the wrong way.

That's due to the strange blue faces in sketchup. right click and select 'reverse faces' and it should go a nice white, fixing that problem.

And on the sketchup=>ingame thing, I can get sketchup models into XSI (minus the textures) but since I have never really used XSI, I don't know where to go from there.

EDIT: update on my lot

Just abut ready to bundle it all together to ship of to Rep but before I do.
Here is some wet and wild fun for you. Doesn't do any damage but it is fun.

trainmaster611 wrote:(minus the fact that the building was about waist high)

Yeah, that happened when I first tried to convert my DMI building and put it in a test map. And it didn't have textures (which always happens when I try to convert Sketchup to VRML for the Msh Viewer.

Sweet buggy, Frag!

BTW, blue in Sketchup in always invisible in Msh (and other 3D model languages, wonder why that is ). Wait a sec...

FragMe! wrote:Just abut ready to bundle it all together to ship of to Rep but before I do.
Here is some wet and wild fun for you. Doesn't do any damage but it is fun.

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Yet it's bound to be more than a but [EDIT: bit] annoying online, you could chase someone and hose him down good


Still, brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Hecka sweet!

The_Emperor wrote:

FragMe! wrote:Just abut ready to bundle it all together to ship of to Rep but before I do.
Here is some wet and wild fun for you. Doesn't do any damage but it is fun.

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Yet it's bound to be more than a but annoying online, you could chase someone and hose him down good


Still, brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Thanks Emp, made it so the driver can hack the other guys out of their vehicles now. So hack them out then blast them

FragMe!.... that's awsome!!!!!! I wish that I could mod like you.

destructo_bot wrote:

trainmaster611 wrote:[Edit]

Here's a picture ingame. I'd say I need to scale it up by about 1/3 and there's obviously some issues with the polygons facing the wrong way.

That's due to the strange blue faces in sketchup. right click and select 'reverse faces' and it should go a nice white, fixing that problem.

And on the sketchup=>ingame thing, I can get sketchup models into XSI (minus the textures) but since I have never really used XSI, I don't know where to go from there.

EDIT: update on my lot

Are you sure about that? I always thought that the purple was the outside I guess I can just export it with the faces reverted. Btw, you're building is simple but its coming out very nice

@Frag, that is pretty cool. I like the idea of non-lethal weapons in the city.

Very nice looking building, but I have to tell you when I quickly scrolled by it it reminded me of the side of a toaster.

@train very nice looking Demporium too. Hope you get your export thing solved with it.

@ General_Nate thanks for the compliment but my modding skills aren't really much more than playing around, crashing, playing around somemore. The water cannon really is only the fatray weapon ord using a very slightly modified flame thrower effect.

FragMe! wrote:Very nice looking building, but I have to tell you when I quickly scrolled by it it reminded me of the side of a toaster.

you spotted my inspiration then! [/joke]

trainmaster611 wrote:

destructo_bot wrote:

trainmaster611 wrote:[Edit]

Here's a picture ingame. I'd say I need to scale it up by about 1/3 and there's obviously some issues with the polygons facing the wrong way.

That's due to the strange blue faces in sketchup. right click and select 'reverse faces' and it should go a nice white, fixing that problem.

And on the sketchup=>ingame thing, I can get sketchup models into XSI (minus the textures) but since I have never really used XSI, I don't know where to go from there.

EDIT: update on my lot

Hidden/Spoiler:

Are you sure about that? I always thought that the purple was the outside I guess I can just export it with the faces reverted. Btw, you're building is simple but its coming out very nice

Thanks!

my flyer i will use, still need to set up effects related stuff in odf
EDIT: wireframe