Spring RTS Engine

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snipa, that was rendered in wings, lets not hijack this thread.. google yafray and set it up in wings.

Tell me what kind of light you've used (and params), pretty please.
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Falalal, finito. Sod radiosity, tends to look wrong.

Any progress?

Guessmyname wrote:Any progress?

The same question could be asked of you in an other project sir!

I've started working again and it's bummed me out so I've been slow working lately. And Nemo's been hooked with exams or some sort of school crap. And Flozi's his usual lazy self, lost in a sea of confusion as he's nothing to do now that his big tank script is done.

Hey I have exams too! Final university exams!


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tralalalalaa

Yaaaaaaaay!

Not bad at all...

Also, our lack of activity is partially due to my 8kbps internet connection which I've suffered from the past two weeks. Thus it's been a pain for me to do stuff like lookup reference pics of stuff, as well as load pics of finished units. But my internet should be back up to speed tomorrow.

I made some responces for Russian tanks (I'll do them for the other units later), where do I send them?

If you can host them somewhere and give the link here that'd be fine, and I'll PM you my email

No, I will not disclose the tricount. (except to say it's less than the cromwell)

If poly count is a worry, those canisters with pipes down the side could easily be dropped.

You must teach me your rhino ways, Flozi. I practically model all my things face by face now in rhino, because I get so annoyed at the behaviour of all the functions.
How do you ensure that all the vertices are welded for people to wrap? The 'merge vertices' command appears to do some nasty things on occasion (well, by 'occasion' I mean, 'every fricking time').

I have found it is very difficult to communicate with people who use wings to uvmap through rhino. The only way I've worked out how to do it thus far is to save to a .raw file (Which dumps all information except individual polygon geometry), then reload in rhino and save to 3ds. That removes any smoothing groups, but it means it can be imported into wings without too many problems. However, it doesn't always ensure the right vertices are welded and creates lots of work for people dealing with the model for mapping.

How do you deal with the whole rhino models -> UVmapping issue?

No! The pipes are there to make spiked SUFFER!

Basically I draw everything with polylines and extrude it. Or use surface from planar curves/edge curves. i.e. I build the whole thing in NURBS, then painstakingly mesh it bit by bit, ensuring each mesh is as clean and optimised as possible - infact the only poly/mesh tool of Rhino's I use is reduce, and very very occasionally i will point edit if reduce doesn't get it right.

As for welding - once i've meshed the whole thing, I go through by piece by piece exporting to .lwo, them opening them in Ultimate Unwrap, welding, saving, and importing back into the rhino model. In the end the whole thing is exported as .obj and Spiked UVs it in UU.

So basically, avoid Wings?

Oh good god, your voodoo witchdoctor rhino usage is just as bad as mine is...

We need to learn new programs. I've been trying to learn a few, but they all have such retarded interfaces compared to rhino...