I want to show you my first efforts too

[Ozi]

Hello everyone.

 

Firstly, sorry for my English (I hope is good enough to understand what i`m posting here)

 

OK. My first efforts in D3Ed - a (very)small church

 

Early untextured version:

 

 

And here are some textures on (all textures where found in the internet on free-textures websites):

 

 

That church is entarable (what else to expect if ther are no windows or doors yet ):

 

 

Waiting for opinions 

Edited May 14, 2007 by Ozi

[sparhawk]

Wwo! Looks really good. The texturing would need some more work, but the modelling looks really nice. Did you build everything in DoomEdit, or in a modelling app?

[Ozi]

Everything is biuld in DoomEdit

And about textures.. I know Master of texturing is NOT what I am (but I`m trying to improve my skills in that field too ;P)

[Mr Mike]

Very impressive work. Nice amount of detail and the scaling is great. Keep it up.

[OrbWeaver]

Very impressive work, but I suggest learning how to use a modelling app and to create normal maps as well. Producing that level of detail using brushes and patches is not very efficient and won't necessarily lead to good performance.

[Ozi]

Very impressive work. Nice amount of detail and the scaling is great. Keep it up.

 

Very impressive work,

 

I`m glad you like it

 

Producing that level of detail using brushes and patches is not very efficient and won't necessarily lead to good performance.

 

That`s what I`m afraid of and what forced me to download Blender and visit this site.

[sparhawk]

I'm also using Blender when I do some modelling for D3. I already used it years before, but I must say it has come a long way, since then and the UV mapping is simply as easy as it can get.

 

There are some issues with using such big models purely from a modelling app, so you might try to get some information about it. I think one issue was that it would not be a good idea to create such big models as one chunk, instead chopping it up into seperate pieces, otherwise you might get issues with performance as well. The renderengine would consider the complete section for rendering IMO. Our artists know more about this, so feel free to ask.

[Dram]

VERY nice You should apply for beta mapper status imo

[jdude]

That is excellent work!! This man deserves an A+

[Baddcog]

That's awesome, I think with a little more texture work it would be top notch.

 

This can be saved too so other people could import and use it? (I have just barely messed around with editor so far.)

[Ozi]

That's awesome, I think with a little more texture work it would be top notch.

 

This can be saved too so other people could import and use it? (I have just barely messed around with editor so far.)

 

Like everything else (i think) what`s build in the editor, that can be saved as prefab file, and as prefab it is possible to import that to any map. 

Edited May 15, 2007 by Ozi

[demagogue]

Sounds like a multibrush in Dromed. That's convenient.

[sparhawk]

You can also load any map in the editor, copy whatever you want to the clipboard and then load your map and paste it in.

[Baddcog]

Sweet, that's better than multibrush! Multi brush could be buggy with textures, if you didn't load families in correct order it could be textured wrong. I think it based textures off of tex# in original file instead of tex name.

[Order of the Hammer Bureaucrat]

Yes the tex# reference was very annoying, made me leave texturing until the very end.

[demagogue]

I was actually going to ask about that in my post and left it out at the last moment.

I hated when you multibrush in dromed having to fix all the textures when the order was off.

[Ozi]

I made some small modifications (only the "stained glass" and the roof textures are made by me):

 

[Baddcog]

It's awesome, but that back tower window looks a little odd with the roofline where it is.

 

can you just drag the bottom of the window above top of roof?

[Ozi]

It's awesome, but that back tower window looks a little odd with the roofline where it is.

 

can you just drag the bottom of the window above top of roof?

 

It`s done

[sparhawk]

That sure looks impressive. You should really apply for beta mapper or texture artist, or whatever.

[PinkDot]

Yeah, really good work, Ozi! I love those details. I'm eagerly waiting for some environment and/or furnished interior!

 

P.S. the only thing that keeps nagging me is the scale of textures - especially bricks and roof tiles. I think they're too large, which makes the building looks smaller than it actually is.

 

P.S.2 - and don't hesitate to apply for betamapper position (unless you know you don't have really time for this)

[demagogue]

P.S. the only thing that keeps nagging me is the scale of textures - especially bricks and roof tiles. I think they're too large, which makes the building looks smaller than it actually is.

 

Yeah, that's the first thing that strikes you looking at it. It looks a little like a toy building, rather than a real building. Then again, that's some of its charm. It just depends on what you want to use the building for. If this were in an FM, I'd also recommend to work on the scale of those textures (unless there's a reason it should look a little surreally toy-like, like it was in a dream). But for this sort of test run/ experimenting/ play it makes for fun eye candy, so I don't mind so much. Great work in any event.

Edited May 18, 2007 by demagogue

[Dram]

-VERY- impressive please apply for beta mapper status

[Ozi]

Thanks for all good words and advices I changed the scale of the textures and 

that church look much better now. 

And about aplly as beta mapper - I sent an e-mail to recruiting@thedarkmod.com so now I`m waiting for answer

[Baddcog]

Awesome. We (I) need someone to make a bunch of cool building so when I get around to making a city it's all but done.

 

But seriously, I think it would be good to have someone making buildings(prefabs) for the mod for this reason.