Models That Need Attention

[Fingernail]

better than any T3 beds I've slept in.

[Springheel]

I like the addition of the headboard.

[_Atti_]

do you want me to fill those gaps? i didnt know they cause problems when i made that so i removed polys from there thinking they are not visible anyway..or is it caused by somthing else?

[Fingernail]

No, you need polys all the way round to cast shadows.

[Springheel]

in furniture folder on ftp you can now find:

-wide bookshelf(high/low)

 

Atti, since you've already done some books, would you be able to do a row of books free-standing, as if they were sitting on a ledge? That will give FM authors a lot of flexibility about how to place them. They could build their own shelves and fill them with books if they want.

 

They did this in T3 and it worked well.

 

 

Reference (minus the ones laying down)

 

[BlackThief]

this morning I uvmapped and textured the pew

[Springheel]

Cool! I'll add it to the list. We're over thirty props now.

[Ishtvan]

Looking at this and imagining hiding behind it reminds me that we have to test whether the standard D3 vision test for AI's looking at you can see thru models or not, static or movables or not. I tried standing behind the boxes in the aitest map, but the AI was able to see me. I'm not sure if he was seeing thru the small cracks in the boxes though, so I'll have to test hiding behind something bigger.

 

Also, as SZ was saying, we might want to shrink down the player bounding box a little since it is ridiculously huge, and if used for vision testing, it would make hiding behind things difficult.

[BlackThief]

some speed-modelling (10min)

 

I thought about making a high-res version, but actually there's no point for a high-poly model, since there's isn't much detail to add to such a simple chair.

[Springheel]

Hey, BT's becoming a triple-threat! I won't add this one to the list as I assume you'll want to texture it yourself.

[BlackThief]

same thing with some wip textures.

 

I can't really decide, how to make the pads - that's the "standart issue victorian chair-pad", but I also have one with some nice yellow pattern....

 

anyway gotta add some details and stuff to the texture and delete some unnecessary tris I found during uv-mapping.

 

give me some feedback, whether you like it or not.

[Springheel]

A couple things: the wood looks a little washed-out at the moment...maybe bump up the saturation? Also, we already have a red chair, how about a different colour for the pads on this one?

[BlackThief]

thx for your crit - I overworked the texture, but I'll keep the red texture, since all the stuff should fit together anyway, however it's 2 minutes in PS to change the colour of the pads - so I'll do various versions.

 

something else - Dram's mansion screenshots reminded me to fix Atti's dining-table. No offense Atti, but this one was really screwed up

the polycount was extremley high (1331 tries) and there were errors on the model ingame.

http://www.thedarkmod.de/intern_screens/dtable_original.jpg

 

I remodelled the top of it in lightwave - it's 95% the same shape, but has 1000 tries less! 336 tries instead of 1331...

http://www.thedarkmod.de/intern_screens/dtable_fixed.jpg

[BlackThief]

well thought a remodelled table should also have a overworked texture

[Springheel]

since all the stuff should fit together anyway, however it's 2 minutes in PS to change the colour of the pads - so I'll do various versions.

 

Yeah, it would be good to have a few different versions of coloured things, so that FM authors can make two or three different colour schemes. Red, cream and perhaps green would work well.

 

Btw, table looks better now...did you increase the size at all? We will need a much larger dining table at some point.

[BlackThief]

no, still exactly the same size, but I could easily do a much larger version as well.

[_Atti_]

I remodelled the top of it in lightwave - it's 95% the same shape, but has 1000 tries less! 336 tries instead of 1331...

http://www.thedarkmod.de/intern_screens/dtable_fixed.jpg

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hey..i made low poly of this!

 

you must be using wrong files! dont remodel any more..

i am not that stupid to make tables of 1000poly and name it lowpoly

[_Atti_]

here is a screen of it..

and it must be on ftp too

 

but nevermind now..just check filenames or ask if you're unsure..

[BlackThief]

ok, I'm sorry looks like I really imported the high-poly into lightwave. however the lowpoly has got the same mesh-error as the high-poly..

you see the triangles overlapping ? this results in weird white lines all along the top in D3 - I guess you've overseen that, when you converted the quads to triangles.

 

the remodelled table has got slightly more triangles than your lowpoly, but the wire-frame is clean:

[_Atti_]

yes,just checked it realy there is overlapping there,it wasnt noticable until i zoomed on it

 

btw you can weld these points without fearing anything wil overlap..both sides of the table

 

click

 

edit:

 

or the problem on my version could have been fixed by moving that vertex there a bit further toward the center of table(look at the wire pic you linked)

[BlackThief]

can't see your linked picture, but I think I just realized, what you mean. I'll weld those unnecessary points.

 

anyway here's the whole thing ingame.

 

http://www.thedarkmod.de/intern_screens/ta...airs_ingame.jpg

[_Atti_]

looks great

[Springheel]

Wow, very nice! I'll add those chairs to the completed model list.

[BlackThief]

here's a bigger chest I did a while ago. there're still some problems with the model though - the upper part of the chest appears brighter in doom, eventhough it's got exactly the same material settings and diffusemap.

 

[Springheel]

Wow, that's very cool! The colour doesn't seem that different to me in that shot. Is that the back of the chest or the front?

 

BTW, did you and Atti sort out the problems with the single bed?