TDM Building with Blender

[Sotha]

Hey, I didn't know anything about those!

 

I was wondering why the shading looked a bit strange ingame compared to blender: all I needed to do is press the smoothing button. Heh.. You live and you learn.

 

Thanks a lot for the helpful tip!

[Bikerdude]

Man, Ive so gotta motivate myself to start using blender..

Ok Im starting of with something easy, Ive got a terrain FS patch (2x grass and one dirt). How do I import that .ASE model into blender, I then will try to learn how how to do texture/vertex blending.

[Obsttorte]

You need an import plugin. Google blender ase import or similar.

[Bikerdude]

You need an import plugin. Google blender ase import or similar.

Ok,

 

installed B3D 2.53 and the matching import script - nothing happens, no object imported.

installed B3D 2.65 and the matching import script - there is no import option only export.

[Arcturus]

They added walk mode to Blender. It will probably be in the next official build:

 

[Arcturus]

Andrew Price from Blender Guru posted tutorial on a plugin for tree making. http://www.blendergu...christmas-tree/ The amount of options is insane, you can practically make any type of tree you want.

[nbohr1more]

Uh, unless I'm mistaken, that example tree has 2 quadrillion polys.

[Arcturus]

Sure it has. But you can control resolution and number of branches easily. Here's one with 996 tris:

 

[nbohr1more]

Nice. Though there are a few other concerns with that last one.

 

1) I'm positive that the model is optimize to use long thin triangles which GPU's hate.

 

2) The silhouette complexity will be a tad high even with a shadow mesh (but I suppose that's unavoidable for trees without leaves)

 

So are you gonna add a new tree or two to TDM too?

[Arcturus]

Uh, no... Although I have an idea how to improve my animated tree. Maybe some day...

[RPGista]

Uh, unless I'm mistaken, that example tree has 2 quadrillion polys.

 

Here comes the "poly-stingy" squad again, being a bummer.

 

Uh... (how come we are all saying uh...) We dont really have a leave-less tree, do we? Throw that model my way, and I'll make it available for the community, I was working on one but it sucked.

[Arcturus]

I didn't save it. Do you use Blender? You can make a tree like that in couple of minutes fiddling with different values in the 'sapling' plugin. Then you need to uv map it. I think we used to have bare trees.

[Springheel]

We dont really have a leave-less tree, do we?

 

Sure we do. It's in St. Lucia.

[Arcturus]

Here's something I always wanted to try:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmNBRGeQYl4&feature=youtu.be

 

It's Blender's rigid bodies physics baked into MD5 animation. There are 50 parts and each has its own bone. I used cell fracture plugin to cut the mesh into pieces. Unfortunately setting this is up is a bit tedious so doing for example 500 parts would take a lot of dedication.

[Springheel]

Wow, that's awfully impressive.

[Arcturus]

Here's a link to files: http://www.speedyshare.com/UDzkV/tower-crumble.7z

[demagogue]

With the right particle effects and sound fx, this would be pretty epic to encounter in game. Good work.

[Bikerdude]

We don't have any slender tree's so this should be part of the mod.

Wow, that's awfully impressive.

With the right particle effects and sound fx, this would be pretty epic to encounter in game. Good work.

+3

[Sotha]

Impressive!

 

It would be really cool if you compiled some kind of log what you did to get that stuff into TDM. So that others could have instructions how to achieve something like that.

[demagogue]

Or a wiki tutorial.

[motorsep]

 

1) I'm positive that the model is optimize to use long thin triangles which GPU's hate.

 

 

Can you please elaborate on that? Triangle is a triangle.

[nbohr1more]

I believe that humus did some benchmarks and found that "long thin triangles" were the heaviest performance consumers. I'll have to google the link for reference but I recall the performance cliff was pretty catastrophic.

 

Edit:

 

Here is the reference:

 

http://www.humus.name/index.php?page=News&ID=228

Edited January 5, 2014 by nbohr1more

[Arcturus]

I made a tutorial:

 

[Bikerdude]

Awesome tut mista!

 

I've seen the black cube issue before, its either a corrupt entity or object.

[Arcturus]

As someone pointed out in the comments all you need to do to get rid of the black cube is to dmap again. I should have double checked that. I added annotation to the video.