National Wonder: Flak Tower

[Moeb]

Hi,

I asked a friend to make in 3D a WWII Flak Tower. Here is the result. Please feel free to use, modify or even improve this awesome product.

I will be very happy if I can recognize some day this building (or national wonder, wonder...) in some of the mods I usually play (Thomas War, Wolfschanze, RoM,...).

It would fit perfectly as a national wonder (e.g. you must build seven bunkers to build it).

If you read something about the history of this Flak Towers, they were lethal not only against bombers, but also against tanks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower


Please credit.

Thanks.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

Whoa! That is really cool! Welcome to CFC, Moeb!

 

[The_J]

Maybe not as a national wonder, but i'll find a use for it.

 

[zenspiderz]

could be an 'upgrade' of bunker like castle is 'upgrade' of walls.

 

[Healz]

Alternatively, could someone program the workers to be able to build it out in the countryside around the cities? Originally I didn't think they were that close to the city they were protecting and that the city expanded around them later after WWII. It would be cool also if someone could then make a SAM tower for the post-rocketry age as an upgrade for these. Don't quite know whether you can do the tower, moat type upgrade in C4BTS though...

I just remember when you had radar towers and things that workers could build outside your cities. The only thing that remains is the airfields. Which are now intergrated into forts and don't require any upgrading once you reach the requisite age. Just an idea on how this can be used in the game... As well as that you could build them into certain cities with bunkers and build a certain number and you can build a national air defence project which gives an intercept bonus or something to intercept units.

 

[The_J]

I've looked at the archive, it seems, you forgot the 3D modell, there are only the .dds in it.

 

[Moeb]

Sorry,

here is it with the .nif file.

 

[Moeb]

To The J,

Please could you tell me if this time is it correct?

Txs

 

[The_J]

Yes and no.

There is the needed .nif in it, but the path to the textures is the absolute path from your system, so it can't find them.
I'm also not able to make them relative .

 

[The_Coyote]

afaik for the game it doesn´t matter if there is only a filename or the absolut path, it looks if the texture (only the name) is in the folder and if not, if the the texture is in the shared folder, an absolut path in front of the texture name is ignored

beside this, remove the absolut path and made the mesh to a NiTriShape (stripified it has ~ 2400 poly, triangulated ~800) Imo almost (but only almost) too much for a building, you could reduce the polycount if you remove the never seen faces [like the ones at the bottom of the tower]

 

[The_J]

Ah, thanks.

I've tried cut the path for the textures, but it didn't work, i don't know why.

Because of the size, i've added is as a world wonder (for my national military industries).