Fantasy Buildings

[Psychic_Llamas]

i love your work, its absolutely awsome, the textures... do you make them yourself? (i especially like the roof tiles )
and is there an easy way of importing city art into the game? ive tried but keep stuffing it up

do you do requests? if so would you have a hand at making a Dark elven city along the lines of this (it would go to a good home i promise ):

 

[Darque]

i love your work, its absolutely awsome, the textures... do you make them yourself? (i especially like the roof tiles )
and is there an easy way of importing city art into the game? ive tried but keep stuffing it up

do you do requests? if so would you have a hand at making a Dark elven city along the lines of this (it would go to a good home i promise ):

I second this request. I had previously reskinned the southeast asian cityset for this and feel it only looks mediocre:

Spoiler :

 

[thomas.berubeg]

hroch, that dark elven city set they want could be used in the arda mod too.

 

[hrochland]

hroch, that dark elven city set they want could be used in the arda mod too.

Well. I will make on it...

 

[thomas.berubeg]

Me being the hopelessly incopmetent modder i am, can't figure out how to get the city sets to work in game. can someone please post the required XML for the Elvish city set?

 

[Darque]

you have to play around with Civ4CityLSystem.xml. I haven't mastered that file yet myself and screwed up my city walls.

 

[woodelf]

Too keep this on topic I'm sending you 2 a PM that might help.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

you have to play around with Civ4CityLSystem.xml. I haven't mastered that file yet myself and screwed up my city walls.

yeah... i tried doing that with the old vanilla version of the arda mod, but i got hopelessly confused and gave up.


@woodelf, thanks.

 

[hrochland]

All from my four citysets are based on eu_an
You can use same settings I think

 

[Psychic_Llamas]

Hey, ive made a new city set for woodelves:

but im having a couple of issues:

does anyone know how to get normal trees from civ into the city set, like Hrochland's elf city set? (or can we just blend his and mine when i get it into the game?) the poly count for my trees is just too high ~800!

im also having trouble applying a .dds texture to the modles, it comes up with an "error creating Direct 3D Device" message. Woodelf seems to think its a Vista error. would someone please apply the dds textures?

 

[hrochland]

Hey, ive made a new city set for woodelves:

but im having a couple of issues:

does anyone know how to get normal trees from civ into the city set, like Hrochland's elf city set? (or can we just blend his and mine when i get it into the game?) the poly count for my trees is just too high ~800!

im also having trouble applying a .dds texture to the modles, it comes up with an "error creating Direct 3D Device" message. Woodelf seems to think its a Vista error. would someone please apply the dds textures?

Your cityset looks really very as faery take my here link for download your cityset and I check what is problem with texture. (or send you download link by privat message, as you want...)

Geomodder and Chamaedrys wrote here some time ago that sityset parts must have a litle polygons and texture must be one for all parts. Observed you this order?

 

[Psychic_Llamas]

yeh, its all on the same texture, and ive tried to keep the polygons low. what sort of count is recomended? ill upload them in a little while. Thanks for the reply

EDIT: ok, uploaded now. LINK

in the file i have put all the individual modles (the individual ones have the correct polygon number because i went back and reduced it in them, but not the one called "all woodelf houses".) i have also put the texture which i made in GIMP, (it is size 1024 x 1024) and also the .dds texture which my 3DS Max does not seem to recognise

Thanks for any help you can give Hrochland

 

[hrochland]

I only short see on it, Psychic_Llamas, have you this as nif file?
I´m working in Blender (no in 3Dmax) but I can see one my cityset component have 10kb and one your 2271kb. It can be problem.
If you have Nif file, link, please Nif.

 

[Psychic_Llamas]

I havent gotten around to doing the nifs yet i thought you needed the dds texture first ill do that then get back to you. thanks again

EDIT: Ok, ive tried to export the modles as a nif file, but they come up with an error saying

WARNING: Texture "all Woodelf Houses.jpg" is not a commonly supported CivilizationIV type.

Resorting to sampling the Max version of the texture.

im going to try something else....

 

[hrochland]

Texture is OK I think. Too big maybe
I make texture for cityset 256x256 in the majority of cases, 512 when I need extra detail
Here is dds for you
http://hrochland.valka.cz/prog/cityset.zip

 

[Psychic_Llamas]

Thanks Hrochland, but it comes up with the error saying "error creating Direct3D Device" when i try to apply the dds. perhaps i should try on a computer without Vista, woodelf said that his vista computer has the same error but his non Vista one is fine.

perhaps if someone with Max on a non-Vista computer could apply the dds for me? otherwise im going to have to try use another compter

PS im sorry about hi-jacking your thread Hrochland

 

[hrochland]

If I good understand, (my English is bad) you want generate dds
On it you need export for example Bmp texture from Max and fhotoshop.
If you have pic export I can make dds from. No problem, but on internet I will be only one hour now and next in Monday...

 

[Ploeperpengel]

Did you get the "Texporter" plugin for max?

 

[hrochland]

No. Not work in Max but if I tried it some time ago, I displayed texture, press Printscreen and made dds texture in Photoshop

 

[Ploeperpengel]

No. Not work in Max but if I tried it some time ago, I displayed texture, press Printscreen and made dds texture in Photoshop

No I meant PL here, since he's working with max he needs the texporter plugin. Sorry for me spamming your thread as well now hroch