Red Button + custom sound

[R Soul]

HI all.

 

I decided TDM needed a big red button, so I made one. I also thought the sound could be better, and I found something good on freesound.

The metal housing texture was made using several from TDM's existing set. The red button texture is rubber from textures.com

 

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/hhe6yecs8cgvcm6/RedButton1.7z

 

The object comes with a prefab so that the new sound and relative positions of each part are correct. It's location will be mechanical\switches\RedButton1

 

The button has a NoDraw plane. At the moment TDM doesn't allow skins to replace nodraw, but if that problem gets resolved, this button will be ready.

Edited August 31, 2018 by R Soul

[R Soul]

Bump.

 

I made a few changes and improved the normal map. The download link is the same as above. See here for a screenshot: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/19468-tutorial-combining-tdm-textures/?p=423511

[Bikerdude]

Im gonna see if these are small enough to go in my elevator..

[R Soul]

If you need smaller ones, and the model scaler can't do it, I'd be happy to remodel them.

Edited August 31, 2018 by R Soul

[Bikerdude]

Awesome, I will let you know over the weekend chap!

[Bikerdude]

Ok so tried these out on my elevator and while they look brill, these new buttons and housing would be perfect in an industrial situation. And for my elevator they are too big in this situation.

 

 

Would you be open to making a more Victorian/Dishonoured type elevator housing and button..?

[R Soul]

I can have a go. Any pictures I can use for ideas?

 

And some dimensions.

Edited September 2, 2018 by R Soul

[Bikerdude]

Did a quick search and found an vintage Otis button panel, so maybe a 1x and 4x button version of this plate to take smaller desaturated version of your buttons -

 

 

Some more examples of elevators fixtures -

 

http://www.cjanderson.com/classicantiquefixtures.aspx

Edited September 2, 2018 by Bikerdude

[R Soul]

I had a look at the borders around those plates and made a 3D object from which to generate a normal map. I may have gone a bit over the top:

 

It has 2.7 million tris.

[Bikerdude]

Looks very good though!

[R Soul]

Can you suggest suitable dimensions, mainly the width?

[Bikerdude]

In response to your PM, the current rough panel place holder is 1 x 7 x 30, and I can just fill in behind it. These dimensions are based on the current button size though, so if the new ones are smaller than the backplate should also be smaller I would think.?

 

Edited September 9, 2018 by Bikerdude

[R Soul]

Yes, I can make them smaller. In Blender I'll scale the backplate to some width, and the depth and height will be relative to that.

 

Here I've highlighted the dimension I'm asking for. Not width as it is now, but the width you'd like it to be.

 

 

[Bikerdude]

(d)1 x (w)7 x (h)30

The dimension your looking for is 7.

Edited September 10, 2018 by Bikerdude

[R Soul]

Oh. I thought you wanted the backplate to be no wider than the girder to which it's attached. 7 it is then.

[R Soul]

WIP:

 

This is using the original buttons, but I think they're too big. To fit in to the object I initially made I've had to squeeze them together more than I'd like.

 

I'm in favour of making the buttons smaller, but I could instead make the panel taller to give them more space. Any preference?

[nbohr1more]

SEXY!

[Bikerdude]

Oh. I thought you wanted the backplate to be no wider than the girder to which it's attached. 7 it is then.

I can make that out of a brush.

I'm in favour of making the buttons smaller, but I could instead make the panel taller to give them more space. Any preference?

Smaller button would be better.

 

And what Nbhor said, sexy! did you use a stock TDM metal texture for backplate..? if not could I ask for some skins? brass and gold would come in handy..

Edited September 11, 2018 by Bikerdude

[R Soul]

The base texture is metal\flat\simple_grey01. I applied a subtle Gaussian Blur. I might also have lowered the already low saturation.

 

The detail was made by creating 3d shapes. A few posts above you can see the main border. The repeating ovals were made from squashing and chopping a high-res sphere and then having the object repeat itself. The corner pieces, and the pattern in the semicircles, were traced over images I found online.

 

My initial intention was to find black and white images, use Inkscape to convert them to SVG, which Blender can import and store as its own native curves object. The face triangulation led to very poor results, so I used them solely as a visual reference and traced my own shapes around them before bevelling the edges and applying a subdivide modifier.

 

 

This object now has over 3 million triangles.

 

That object was used to generate two images: Ambient Occlusion and a Normal Map.

Sample of the high-res AO map:

 

I shrunk that down an added it to the base metal texture (low opacity).

 

The specular map is nothing special, just a high contrast version of the diffuse.

Edited September 11, 2018 by R Soul

[Bikerdude]

I assume for the TDM model your just going tp use a hi-res normal placed over a low poly model..?

[R Soul]

Yes. The face is 66 tris. I'll add sides to give it some depth.

Edited September 11, 2018 by R Soul

[R Soul]

Buttons made smaller:

Each button is a distinct model, with its own place on the UV map to allow for subtle differences in each button (marks etc).

 

Depth and side detail added:

 

My next task will be to make a single one. Hopefully I can find space in the current UV map without having to double its size.

 

edit: the blender file, which contains the high-res objects that generate the normal and AO maps, is nearly 300MB.

Edited September 15, 2018 by R Soul

[Bikerdude]

That looks fantastic fella, cant wait to see this in-game.

[R Soul]

Release version:

 

Download:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/pnxcz0v3iwbcpkp/ElevButtonPanel.7z

 

Prefabs included. I've included a copy of the custom sound from the button in the first post.

[Bikerdude]

Thank you for the hard work on these fella, will down load them this evening.