More mountains

[Com_gp]

Well guys, i have 337 tiles in falcon already (thanx to widow for making the texture.bin), i still gotta put like 100 more and i gotta finish the colorado canyon, its hard as hell to make a cool canyon in falcon.

Well, i also have finished four sets of rocky mountains, they doesnt look very repeating (well at high altitude they do) and here is the shoot.

This days im tiling, i think one more week and ill get everything important tiled, but... well still training files to be done
I even have done the Hover dam at Lake Mead



for the big one...

http://wsphotofews.excite.com/034/8P/4Q/VH/9B11750.jpg

ComGP

[This message has been edited by Com_gp (edited July 31, 2001).]

[ccc]

Very nice.

wait..that DAM? you build a new shape for it? cool, how about a shot?

[Com_gp]

quote:Originally posted by ccc:
Very nice.

wait..that DAM? you build a new shape for it? cool, how about a shot?

Well, yet no 3d model, although it can be done easily.

its just painted in the ground

ComGP

[T_Rex]

Even if its just a tile, post a shot!

I'd like to see what it looks like!

T

[Com_gp]

Well, exactly they are just two tiles, and they suck, i made this as a temporal solution, i hope to get the hover dam model soon,



and BTW, ccc, could you send me those target models you made some time ago??

ComGP

[T_Rex]

Actually - I think that looks pretty cool! Naturally, a 3d model would be best, but I'd take that any day! I assume its on a "vertical" tile, in that you could fly up to it...err in to it, like a mountain, right? That's all that counts! I'm not sure how to model the destruction of the Hoover Dam anyway! Probably gonna have to work an "Easter Egg" into that somehow.

T

[Com_gp]

Well, im glad it likes you, although i will try to get it sharper.
And about the 3d model... well, its harder than i thought.

ComGP

[T_Rex]

I've messed with LOD Editor (even the new version) and I even think it'd be tough to create a Hoover-frickin Dam!!! Frankly, I wouldn't blame you a bit for leaving the dam as a couple verticle tiles with special artwork. Keep in mind - you may have to have a 3d contoured transition of the dam into the surrounding mountains. That might be kinda tough.

But, since you're trying to create an all new theater, I assume you like challenges!

T

[ccc]

Hey ComGP,
dont forget to check Jane's USAF.
There is a Hoover Dam shape, you can import that P3D file, have a look, see if we can use it, or build a new one.

[Hunter]

CCC, we can inport models from Jane's USAF for F4?? If so, why we don't inport better aircraft models from there? Look to A-10 for instance!

[ccc]

Not yet. our wonderful LE can convert P3D into lods, but you got lots work to sort verts into nodes and subtrees!!

Honestly, once i know LE can read p3d, i've checked almost all j/USAF models in LE, and ya, that A10 is much detailed than ours..just too complex to convert!! my2c, a new 3ds from scratch could be easier one, like what ComGP has done.

[87th_striker]

Guess the Hoover Concrete dam would be very nice to destroy. Saw a program about how it was built the other day. Hats off for the engeneering and work by those who built it. There were Conrete Dams in DID's EF2000, so I think it would be possible to get them in F4. Based on my personal walkarounds within theses dams, they will take several penetrators to destroy. For the Hoover Dam, a lot more than 4. But then again, I guess the powerhouses are the real targets.

[T_Rex]

This may be a modern myth, but I've heard that the concrete in Hoover Dam is still curing. Did you ever see "Force 10 from Navarone"? I agree that it would take a bunch of bombs to immediately destroy it, but I wonder how many it would take to weaken it to the point of letting the natural pressure do the rest. In a conventional war, I think the Hoover Dam would be a fairly high priority target - lots of devastation, little protection.

T

[Com_gp]

Well, as i see all of you want to destroy the hoover dam...,
When i said that making the hoover dam was hard i didnt mean the model, its probably much easier than any other thing in falcon, the problem is that i still havent been succsesfull at adding a CT record and i dont have any idea of how to make the water going out (well, i think this is imposible)

And about importing p3d objects..., well i dont like that option, almost every objects in USAF use 512x512 textures meanwhile falcon can only hadle to 256x256, 128x128,...
So that means that a whole remap of the imported object would be needed.
I prefer to make the stuff in 3DS, map it and then convert it to LOD, after that remaking the node tree and playing it...

ComGP

[Com_gp]

Im tiling most of Nellis range, ive already tiled 30km up and down and east of nellis, yet gotta finish the colorado canyon tiles and add them.

Although i have the roads done and working im not gonna tile with in nevada yet, will wait until i have all kinds of terrain tiled.

About that freaking dam..., problems are starting to grow with the 3d model,
the main problem is the water level, i cant make it without altering the terrain a lot, its very hard to explain, will try to post some pic.



ComGP

[ccc]

Terrain looks awesome!! really good job!

btw, waterfall could be a challenge for canyon stream, how about using those ship wake animation on waterfall sites?

[Com_gp]

Thanks, and wait a little more for the red looking desert that im doing for the colorado canyon...

about those waterfalls...colorado canyon is already a challenge without waterfalls

ComGP

[T_Rex]

Com-
Do you have a full tileset for Nevada, yet? I'm thinking of a terrain in another part of the world that will be kinda desert/rocky and was wondering if I could scam your tiles when the time came?

T

[Com_gp]

quote:Originally posted by T_Rex:
Com-
Do you have a full tileset for Nevada, yet? I'm thinking of a terrain in another part of the world that will be kinda desert/rocky and was wondering if I could scam your tiles when the time came?

T

Yes, i have many tiles sets completed, i think around 26, gotta 11 more to get into falcon and im finishing up 3 more for the colorado canyon.
I dont mind giving you tiles for whichever part of the world you want, but you will have to wait until Nevada Beta 1 is released... (not too far from now, im starting to get really busy at real life)

So not too far from now you can get them

ComGP

[T_Rex]

Roger that. Actually, now that BOTH rp5 and e1.10 are out, I'll probably forget about everything else...theaters, skins, flight models, eating, sleeping. All the unimportant stuff.

T