Wheelwright (8-08-06)
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Ploeperpengel
academic precarity
That's a nice one make sure Duke knows of that.
Hadrean
Hi, how are you?
I think I can do a little re-skinning for this, but I think i might have to make it more realistic because I don't think I can put a Dole label on this. 
Hadrean
Hi, how are you?
There's a problem, In the nif viewer the model is all black and I'm blaming woodelf for this.
Ploeperpengel
academic precarity
Hadrean is blaming the wrong person. Everything fine on my screen. But the polycount is a bit high. Half the size would be reasonable.
Hadrean
Hi, how are you?
Ploeperpengel said:
Well mine has been working fine for a while, then it stopped. I don't know what went wrong.
Hadrean
Hi, how are you?
woodelf said:I had to make the wheels realistic.
I could delete two of them if need be.
Can't you just make them plain circles and make the spaces transparent?
Chamaedrys
Emperor
woodelf said:
or as a storehouse
Cool graphic, woodelf
jojoweb
Chimpa-Z
Wheelwright or Will Wright ? ^^ Very good work, like your other creations.
Duke van Frost
Lunatic Killer Robot
Hm... such small wheels with that big details? but Ok, it´s your model after all, but I would suggest the same thing that I said about the Organ Cannon - don´t model details that can be done via skinning.
And you should learn how to attach the "ground" from civ buildings to your buildings instead of doing you own ones - because the basement from civ buildings stick to the ground, that´s a really nice effect, especially when the buildings are on a hill.It´s very simple to do this via the NifViewer.
But I´m very happy that you´re skinning skills are improving. All I´m hoping for is, that the Unwrap is done a liitle bit better than with the modern port, you really have to stitch some parts together and let parts that should look alike use the same part of the .dds file.
May be a liitle bit much of constructive criticism, but I know that you can handle it - If not maybe we´ll have to degrade you to Lvl 2 again
Best thing about this model is the idea (may sound harsh but it´s not meant this way), because it´s very hard to come up with good ideas for buildings IMO and You´re always doing a great job in adding new buildings that can actually be pu to use
And you should learn how to attach the "ground" from civ buildings to your buildings instead of doing you own ones - because the basement from civ buildings stick to the ground, that´s a really nice effect, especially when the buildings are on a hill.It´s very simple to do this via the NifViewer.
But I´m very happy that you´re skinning skills are improving. All I´m hoping for is, that the Unwrap is done a liitle bit better than with the modern port, you really have to stitch some parts together and let parts that should look alike use the same part of the .dds file.
May be a liitle bit much of constructive criticism, but I know that you can handle it - If not maybe we´ll have to degrade you to Lvl 2 again
Best thing about this model is the idea (may sound harsh but it´s not meant this way), because it´s very hard to come up with good ideas for buildings IMO and You´re always doing a great job in adding new buildings that can actually be pu to use
Thanks for the critique Duke. The nifviewer is still on my "to-do" list. 
Maybe I'll delete the plane on the ground and try to nifview soon.
And stitching within the unwrap is still buggering me a little admittedly. My unwrap edit seems so jumbled that when I stitch a piece it overlaps a piece next to it, so I end up leaving it as is. There are a lot of little pieces here I should have stitched.
But, I'm not bending on the wheels!
Maybe I'll delete the plane on the ground and try to nifview soon.And stitching within the unwrap is still buggering me a little admittedly. My unwrap edit seems so jumbled that when I stitch a piece it overlaps a piece next to it, so I end up leaving it as is. There are a lot of little pieces here I should have stitched.
But, I'm not bending on the wheels!
I think this could be the Iceni unique building in my mod, replacing barracks and having an extra bonus for chariot units.
Duke van Frost
Lunatic Killer Robot
woodelf said:Thanks for the critique Duke. The nifviewer is still on my "to-do" list.
And stitching within the unwrap is still buggering me a little admittedly. My unwrap edit seems so jumbled that when I stitch a piece it overlaps a piece next to it, so I end up leaving it as is. There are a lot of little pieces here I should have stitched.
But, I'm not bending on the wheels!
When You have stitched those pieces together, just move them outside of the borders. Or even better, select the faces that you want to stitch together, then unwrap them and directly move them outside of the borders, do this with every "group" and then start stitching and scaling them and afterwards move them back into the borders, flip them rescale them again, so you can make most use of the space the .dds texture will give you. But always try to remain some of the proportions nearly right, itlooks funny if those small wheels would take the same space of the .dds file as the roof, for example.
Duke van Frost
Lunatic Killer Robot
Glad I could be of help.
A good Unwrap makes skinning much more easier and a good skinning can make a good model even better.
A good Unwrap makes skinning much more easier and a good skinning can make a good model even better.
