Covered Furniture Refurbished

[Dragofer 1210]

A while back Atheran made use of cloth simulation to create covered versions of various kinds of furniture. While others and I have been putting these models to good use in our FMs since then, they didn't get taken up in TDM's core assets because of numerous issues.

So I've put a decent amount of time into fixing these issues, and can confirm that they were numerous indeed.  Automatic mesh generation sure causes a lot of collateral damage, as the cloth UV map was split into a thousand shards, the shadowmeshes didn't work and intersected with the cloth, excess/missing verts and faces everywhere and materials were messed up. But I think it was worth it:

They all sit around 3000 tris. Could probably shave off several hundred off each model's shadowmesh, but I suppose they're mostly intended for dark, cobweb-filled rooms and mansions anyway.

Here's a download (just drop or extract the .pk4 into your FM). I've also uploaded them to 2.08 (Rev 15867)

 

[grayman 2881]

I've used the old ones in several missions; will switch to new ones in the future.

Thanks for doing this!!

[Jedi_Wannabe 153]

Oh my. Fantastic. I will have to replace all my old ones with these updated ones. Thank you a ton.

[Dragofer 1210]

26 minutes ago, Jedi_Wannabe said:

Oh my. Fantastic. I will have to replace all my old ones with these updated ones. Thank you a ton.

Thank you - in fact, seeing these covered models in your closed alpha/beta was what got me going. I thought I could link you a better version, but that one turned out to be in bad shape too. IIRC your covered furniture is in a different model folder, will have to be aware of that when you replace them.

[Jedi_Wannabe 153]

Good to know. Many thanks!

And yes I’m trying to get through all the notes I’ve received so far. Going well, it’s so fun, but hard with a full house on quarantine Hope to go open within a month.

Edited March 22 by Jedi_Wannabe

[STRUNK 201]

These look so good!! Thanx.

 

[Bienie 382]

These will come in very handy, covered furniture provides a lot of ambiance/atmosphere. Thanks for putting in the work!

[Atheran 40]

Oooh boy. It's been a good few years I haven't checked these forums.

Good job @Dragofer. Those assets were bad and honestly, big part of the reason I stopped helping around here. My workflow was atrocious due to (in order of importance):
1st) Lack of knowledge and experience. I had just stared dabbling in  3d modeling/texturing as a hobby for less tha a year to any serious degree at the point. Now it's been a few years, worked on a couple of games in a serious team effort, went to uni about Game Development and working on my own game right now. As such this has been fixed to a big degree.
2nd) The tools themselves. I couldn't stand Lightwave (still can't) and was seriously focusing on PBR workflows and the traditional texturing felt wrong to me.

I'll keep an eye around for a while now and if I see progress on that second one (as in being able to use the tools I know, because there was nothing wrong the way it was, just not for me) I might try and help again.

So once again, good job on my old assets, glad the community is still going and.. Sorry for bailing out on all of you, especially @grayman and a couple others. Cheers.

[Dragofer 1210]

@Atheran welcome back, and you sure sound a lot more knowledgeable than me about modelling now. For me modelling is just part of my toolset as an FM author for getting things done, alongside sound/image editing and scripting, so I'm glad to see a (newly baked) specialist in this field returning to the forums.

Regarding the tools, Lightwave isn't obligatory. Arcturus and I use Blender, while I know others use/used 3dsmax, softimage and wings3d. As long as it produces .lwo or .ase models it's all good.