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Modding and game content creation => Maps, tilesets and scenarios => Topic started by: titi on 29 March 2013, 13:34:49

Title: tileset birch forest (alpha2 available )
Post by: titi on 29 March 2013, 13:34:49
UPDATE: alpha2 with animated trees is available:
http://mods.megaglest.org/tilesets/birch_forest_a2.7z

(http://mods.megaglest.org/tilesets/birch_forest.jpg)

its so much fun to make new tilesets with the new possibilites :D

Here in action with reduced polys:
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THE birch ( here as a highres model ):
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Title: Re: tileset birch forest ( work in progress )
Post by: atze on 29 March 2013, 21:31:15
Good work, titi.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: tileset birch forest ( work in progress )
Post by: titi on 30 March 2013, 02:53:30
better looking willows....

(http://www.titusgames.de/screens/screen92.jpg)
Title: Re: tileset birch forest ( work in progress )
Post by: titi on 31 March 2013, 15:17:21
and some more progress ...

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Title: Re: tileset birch forest ( work in progress )
Post by: Psychedelic_hands on 1 April 2013, 14:12:23
This is pretty awesome, I've wanted this feature for so long. Although when the ground is sloped the texture is extremely blurred. Would this be caused by the lack of Anti-Aliasing?
Title: Re: tileset birch forest ( work in progress )
Post by: titi on 2 April 2013, 08:19:09
thanks :)
but no this has nothing to do with antialiasing. The reason for this is simply stretching of cells. In MG the terrain is made of squares, but in some places ( cliffs ) those squares are shown extremly streched with the same texture. This make them look like they look.
Title: Re: tileset birch forest (alpha available )
Post by: titi on 2 April 2013, 20:35:28
alpha available:
http://mods.megaglest.org/tilesets/birch_forest_a1.7z

Now I try to add some animations to it ....

(http://mods.megaglest.org/tilesets/birch_forest.jpg)
Title: Re: tileset birch forest (alpha available )
Post by: MuwuM on 2 April 2013, 23:05:49
awesome screenshot  :thumbup:  download-link returns a 404 NOT FOUND error  :thumbdown:
Title: Re: tileset birch forest (alpha available )
Post by: ElimiNator on 2 April 2013, 23:20:58
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Title: Re: tileset birch forest (alpha available )
Post by: titi on 3 April 2013, 00:41:41
Download link fixed.

http://mods.megaglest.org/tilesets/birch_forest_a1.7z
Title: Re: tileset birch forest (alpha available )
Post by: jammyjamjamman on 3 April 2013, 22:47:38
Nice job! The textures are very detailed. Can't wait to see this officially released! :)

Title: Re: tileset birch forest (alpha available )
Post by: titi on 9 April 2013, 09:51:34
Looks likeI forgot to select one of the treetrunks in blender before exporting. Who finds it? :P  ( Its visible in the main screenshot of this thread? ) 

About the tileset itself:
I will not add animation to the tilesets, as its too hard to do and the results I got so far don't look good :-/. Another problem is winddirection and rotated models in tilesets
Title: Re: tileset birch forest (alpha available )
Post by: Ishmaru on 9 April 2013, 10:43:10
First Image in thread, evergreens seem to be missing a trunk. Your mouse is pointed right at one :)

As for animation maybe try moving the vertexes in random rotations to simulate slight wind instead of trying to animate the trunk because of the rotated models?
Title: Re: tileset birch forest (alpha available )
Post by: titi on 9 April 2013, 10:57:29
Quote from: Ishmaru on  9 April 2013, 10:43:10
First Image in thread, evergreens seem to be missing a trunk. Your mouse is pointed right at one :)
Wrong this one has a trunk ( just not very visible on this screenshot )

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As for animation maybe try moving the vertexes in random rotations to simulate slight wind instead of trying to animate the trunk because of the rotated models?

I will try. A tiny rotation animated very slow might work.
Title: Re: tileset birch forest (alpha available )
Post by: Ishmaru on 9 April 2013, 12:11:29
Quote from: titi on  9 April 2013, 10:57:29
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As for animation maybe try moving the vertexes in random rotations to simulate slight wind instead of trying to animate the trunk because of the rotated models?
I will try. A tiny rotation animated very slow might work.

Oh just to clarify, I meant to say only animate only some vertexes in the leaves rather than the trunk or the tree as a whole.
Title: Re: tileset birch forest (alpha available )
Post by: titi on 9 April 2013, 12:39:25
thats how I understood it, yes
Title: Re: tileset birch forest (alpha available )
Post by: titi on 16 April 2013, 21:38:36
this is a version with animated trees:
http://mods.megaglest.org/tilesets/birch_forest_a2.7z
Title: Re: tileset birch forest (alpha2 available )
Post by: jammyjamjamman on 17 April 2013, 02:15:50
Just to note while editing my latest map I saw (while looking for blueberries :D ) that the dead trees seem to be what the big trees should be and vice versa in the dev-alpha 2 of this tileset.
Title: Re: tileset birch forest (alpha2 available )
Post by: titi on 17 April 2013, 08:46:09
thats true but I decided that its better this way. Deadtrees are often used im water and this blueberry stuff doesn't look good in water...
But willows fit to water thats why I decided to keep it this way.
Title: Re: tileset birch forest (alpha2 available )
Post by: jammyjamjamman on 17 April 2013, 16:26:20
Sounds like a good idea, but also explains why you couldn't find blueberries on my map.  :P